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by inglor_cz 1970 days ago
This concept failed multiple times.

Yugoslavia had a common market and a lot of mixed marriages.

Austria-Hungary had a common market whose collapse after 1918 did damage to all the successor countries.

The USSR, while being a not-capitalist society, was very much economically integrated.

So was Iraq and Lebanon prior to their civil wars.