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by Grue3 3127 days ago
Like the article says, even in capitalist countries with lively economy, public parks are free to enter. And this doesn't even have the scale to affect the economy in any way, as compared with stuff like free healthcare. The Soviet economy survived on unpaid (slave) labor, when that became largely frowned upon in the civilised world, the decline was inevitable.