>>25507557 WTF, pidor? Today you are switching sides due to party line change?

>>25507562 I made that a long time ago.

They should adopt State Capitalism after Stalin death, let small shops and stores be run by private enterprises while large factories and mines were run by state owned conglomerates

>>25507557 ukraine's affluence during the union was only due to it's proximity to europe, it enjoyed a disproportionate amount of gibs from moscow, especially during perestroika when 80% of soviet tariff income on imports and exports were applied on the ukrainian borders. without the union artificially propping them up due to russia trading with europe directly, it was inevitable for them to spiral into some corrupt romania tier shithole country. they didn't really "throw away" shit.