Counterpoint: these masters of planning couldn't even supply people with a decent pair of shoes. One's ability to credit Russian apparatchiks with mystical powers appears to be in inverse proportion to contact with the society they built for themselves.https://twitter.com/tristanharris/status/1020377091597000704 …
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Let me rephrase this: whatever problems we had in the post-WWII USSR, and there were many, they weren’t about shoes. The spectacular failure of that sociopolitical experiment still got a lot right on the material front.
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You know perfectly well that for a long time, the protocol for buying shoes in any socialist country was to stand in line and buy a pair, then trade for the correct size. It seems like a good shorthand for the point I was making.
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