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Originally Posted by Red Slinger
I think it's as a result of decades of all decisions being made centrally rather than by the people closest to the actual situation. That and a deeply ingrained culture of fear, that if you don't exactly follow a direct order to the letter there will be severe consequences. I think those two reasons are primarily why the USSR failed and why any heavily centrally planned society is eventually doomed to file.
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Yep, and it’s exactly why they are not gaining any ground in Ukraine, and why they’d get absolutely dummied by NATO militaries.
They are paralyzed by the culture of centralized decision making, which more often than not, is incompetent and corrupt.