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> but the USSR managed to incompetently dodge it.

Common Russian L. Not to sound like an asshole or whatever but...almost everything "negative" ascribed to the USSR could just be ascribed to being Russian or otherwise Eastern European or Slavic. It's like the stereotypical Slavic experience of having vast resources and genius brilliance but also unfixable corruption and commonplace back-stabbing and chronic dysfunction. It's almost like a societal or sociocultural curse to have the means and methods and ability of scooping up fleks of gold from the ground only to watch them trickle through your fingers back down to the Earth, never to be kept. Or like a feast that turns to ash as soon as it enters your mouth. Whatever metaphor or analogy you want. It's kinda sad, really. That's the story of the USSR, but also of just Russia and that whole part of the world, generally. ⰎⰅ ⰀⰍⰨⰒⰎⰫ (npub19l2…f90t) FreedomPatriot (npub1duy…8w9a)