Centralization

[Joe R. Golowka]

> > The economy was mainly in crisis not because people thought it was going
> to
> > fall apart, but because they were pursuing the age-old and slightly crazy
> > Russian preoccupation of Catching Up With the West at All Costs, which the
> > system was not capable of doing, and probably no system was capable of
> > doing.
>
> Why is no system capable of doing that?
> --------------
> Because of the massive development gap between East and West.

And why is no system capable of overcoming that?  Germany used to be underdeveloped compared to
England but eventually caught up, why can't Russia?

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Joe R. Golowka
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