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[–] daskapitalist 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago (edited ago)
Greece? Soviet Russia? Zimbabwe? Venezuela? I can keep naming socialist hellholes that have de facto collapsed due to their inability to fund their gibs....
[–] Ah_Pook 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
Zimbabwe's socialist now too? hahaha
[–] nomenimion 3 points -2 points 1 point (+1|-3) ago
The USSR couldn't sustain its vast military. It wasn't about 'their gibs.'
[–] theoldguy 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Years of waiting in lines around the block to get a couple of cucumbers to eat didn't help either. Government planning, you know.
[–] LiberatedDeathStar ago
The USSR had mass starvations and resource shortages in times of peace (before WWI). It also collapsed from civil war and military coups, not economic collapse. It also had much more restraint than modern welfare systems, as it didn't pull resources from the void, but instead only allocated those that currently existed. There was no democracy to vote money out of nowhere like we currently do.
[–] daskapitalist 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
ZANU, which has controlled Zimbabwe for decades, is both nominally and de facto socialist in their policies (capital redistribution, state industries, massive unions, extensive price controls, and so on).