“That’s not even true, when you measure results Soviet Union was ran about as well as any other country. They were just ran differently.”
is revisionism of the worst kind. I think a simple but informative hypothesis is that Putin’s Russia is mostly the same place with the same institutions in charge, but sans the explicit communist ideology.
The USSR was a dump. Saying things like
“That’s not even true, when you measure results Soviet Union was ran about as well as any other country. They were just ran differently.”
is revisionism of the worst kind. I think a simple but informative hypothesis is that Putin’s Russia is mostly the same place with the same institutions in charge, but sans the explicit communist ideology.