Some data on soviet GDP growth. First, the chart many communists like. It supposedly shows that the soviet economy worked, and that industrialisation was due precisely to central planning, when the Soviet Union was formed, in 1922, after the revolution in 1917.
We can then compare the Soviet Union to the United States
The SU never did really compete in the same league as the US, and the gap between the two didn’t became narrower after the SU began, even when taking into account that poorer countries tend to grow faster when they industrialise.
We can then compare the SU with other countries that had similar incomes in 1930. The SU doesn’t do particularly well in this metric. Initially it did better than many countries, but by the 70s it was being outpaced by the rest. By 1990, the average income in the SU matched that of Malaysia, below countries like…
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