What were the biggest flaws of the soviet union? (lemmygrad.ml)

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I'm doing a presentation on the soviet union for school soon and i would like to know all your opinions on this.

I've got: an over-bloated bureaucracy (which was prone to corruption), rural poverty (which is very unfair as basically all countries have rural poverty- difference is that some countries actually help these people), and a lacking light industry that led to economic dissatisfaction from the populace.

I might share the PowerPoint here for your feedback although its very small as its for a vocational exam that is only a few minutes

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[-] angarabebesi@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Too much centralization of power, first around Stalin, then around the party bureucracy.

[-] summerbl1nd@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

i'd argue that decentralization is the primary issue, you see the same shit happening in china today, with local governments turning themselves into what are essentially little fiefdoms with overly redundant bureaucratic structures to dissipate responsibility and protect the powerful.

something something fractal structures need to be pruned, like trees.

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