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. By the way, high-ranking politicians often ask this rhetorical question; what do you think is the reason? It's simply, as they say now, a way of shifting the blame. It's like saying you are to blame for everything being so bad in the country. [QUOTE] Sage, here's a question to ponder. In the city where I was born and live, there is an ice cream Factory. The financial situation of this enterprise leaves much to be desired. Every month, the employees of this organization take away several tons of ice cream. Hence the question. In this situation, what is the cause and what is the effect: is the enterprise performing poorly because its employees are stealing, or are the employees stealing because the enterprise is functioning poorly?
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Since the topic is specifically about the USSR, let me not think about China. And what did communism do there if no country has yet been able to build it? If you are so well-versed in political economy, why do you confuse socialism with communism? Or did you not live in the USSR? But I did, and therefore I have a clear idea of what kind of system I lived under. Under socialism, I emphasize. Tell me, is the best way to cure dandruff to cut off your head? If a collective farm is bad, then let's destroy it... and that's it? And what about the people? Where will we put them? The point is not whether to destroy the collective farm or not, but whether it was necessary to create it at all. Where will we put the people? It was not necessary to deprive them of what they had earned through their own labor, and then we would not have to ask ourselves where to put them. And also, regarding the people who were left out and who used to have work in collective farms. The collective farm only gave work to lazy people among the rural population. Free farmers are better. History proves this. After the free farmers, the communists had something to build collective farms on; after the collective farms, the villages, excuse me, went to hell. And nothing needed to be given to the free farmers before the introduction of collective farms, because they had already received it all through their hard work. And they managed on their own because they were given freedom.