[candiodari]

I have yet to meet an ex-Soviet citizen who is not of this opinion.

It's only far away leftists/communists that are still of this opinion. They still preach that political decision making should be independent of economic and market factors (in other words: they should be elected/conquer power (social democrats/marxist view) and make decisions ignoring economic reality).

And of course, please ignore that they were largely singing the praises of Chavez and Maduro when this problem was just getting started. Sentences like "Finally a leader that stands up to big banks" and so on were common.

So not only were they singing the praises of these disastrous leaders. They were explicitly calling out the cause of this economic destruction as the best thing ever. And of course, now the consequences become more clear, they must distance themselves from it just like they distance themselves from the fact that the biggest communist state to ever exist voluntarily started a bigger holocaust than Nazi Germany ...

Not that I expect this will convince you of the problems with ignoring economics, but I do hope this can at least make you VERY careful in considering such ideas and give at least some time to looking for problems.