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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 07:38 PM Original message |
How bad were the Soviet Union's economic failures compared to our own? |
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TNDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
1. Check the economy forum. |
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bluerum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
2. Worse. And IMO, the breakup was in part precipitated by it's occupation of Afghanistan. |
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AZ Criminal JD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
3. Are you waiting in line for "services and products"? |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 08:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I'm not... |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 08:52 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. well, that's not really fair. |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 09:28 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. "prices are used to regulate the lines" |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 09:41 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. yes, it's possible to replenish goods |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 09:47 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. "if there's a line, you raise prices because that's easy and fast." |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 10:03 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. are you making a point? when does a merchant raise prices then? |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 10:30 PM Response to Reply #3 |
16. Millions of Americans don't have medical services so no need to wait in line. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 09:06 PM Response to Original message |
6. I knew Americans who studied in the USSR in the 1970s |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 09:18 PM Response to Original message |
7. Obviously you're joking, but I missed the sarcasm tags...n/t |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 09:22 PM Response to Original message |
8. Oh gawd. I suppose Jules put it best..... |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 10:12 PM Response to Original message |
13. We are the Soviet Union, and that's the problem. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
14. They were worse off but the same can happen even here, |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 10:29 PM Response to Original message |
15. I visited the Soviet Union in 1985.... |
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