What are some of the biggest, ideally unheralded, successes of communist or socialist central planning? (Not military.)
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The Soviet healthcare system had contaminated injectable drugs. Stalin starved to death millions of Ukrainians.
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Yes, the central planning economies were usually less successful than market driven economies with similar cultural history.
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1962 Novocherkassk riots were driven by hunger. Later, the USSR couldn't manage to feed its people despite huge fertile landmasses, relied on basic foodstuffs imported from the US and Canada in exchange for oil. If not for the oil, would have collapsed decades earlier.
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I thought Cuban healthcare was the usual touchstone for this - Cubans died of Western diseases at Western ages.
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When the question of socialism comes, people silently forget to mention two major contributions because they don’t want to name the person behind it—autobahn and Volkswagen.
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