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by ETH_start 1334 days ago
USSR had chronic shortages in basic consumer goods like toilet paper, steadily fell behind the West in emerging technologies like semiconductors, and eventually went bankrupt [1], so I don't think you could describe anything in its centrally planned economy.

Japan has many highly mixed neighorhoods, but unlike in the Soviet example, they emerge organically, because zoning restrictions are lax.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/28/world/big-soviet-budget-d...