I often see these words used interchangeably, though as I understand it there is a difference between the two ideologies, no?
I often see these words used interchangeably, though as I understand it there is a difference between the two ideologies, no?
USSR’s success was largely fueled my mass murder, political oppression, and lying about economic growth.
they were ‘good’ at centralizing power to achieve certain goals, like military and the space race, but their economy outside of such priority areas, was in shambles. their agricultural and industrial capacity was terrible.
Agriculture yes, industrial capacity no.
dude it took years for anyone to get a car. months to get household appliances shortages of basic things like office supplies were common outside of the government, etc
it was shit outside of military production, because basically it all went to military production.