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Man, what is with HN and weirdly detailed posts explaining how awesome the Soviet economy was?

For my money, the Soviet economy failed while the NATO countries succeeded for reasons described by Hayek, summarized reasonably well in Marc Andreessen's weird diatribe. At best your post is splitting hairs, at worst it's Zizek-like nonesense "20th century communists established the real free markets!"