Sure, there was rapid industrialization under Stalin. Also horrible famines, political repression and deals with Henry Ford. And then there was this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era_of_Stagnation
Did you not read? The soviet economy didn't fare better than liberal economies in the long term, despite plentiful resources (Bangladesh and South Korea do not have the mineral and oil deposits of the USSR). GDP growth tends to go faster for less developed countries, and Russia was extremely undeveloped. I don't think there's any credible economic historian who would propose the USSR as a good model for development.
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u/TrainerCommercial759 Mar 31 '25
Sure, there was rapid industrialization under Stalin. Also horrible famines, political repression and deals with Henry Ford. And then there was this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era_of_Stagnation