Well I think this true up to a certain point, but post-WWII the USSR had a large "trading" bloc in the form of the Comecon countries and traded extensively with the non-Comecon countries, including with the United States.
--- "W. Kiernan" <wkiernan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> I'm not so sure I buy this. The Soviet Union was
> under embargo and/or
> siege for almost every single year of its existence.
> That they didn't
> deliver the consumer goods under those circumstances
> doesn't exactly
> invalidate the concept. It's like saying that the
> principles of
> capitalism were discounted as impracticable by the
> fact that the English
> had food rationing from 1940 all the way through
> 1953.
>
> Yours WDK - WKiernan at gmail.com
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