[growupkids]

Don't forget the crushing secret police state, the high cost of the soviet focus on war production that redeployed commerce across the soviet empire to make weapons, instead of consumer goods, centralized planning, failed communist economic policies, gulags, and the decades of communist education that wiped out generations of entrepreneurs.

[vegedor]

Wait a second, who was send to Gulags (in Siberia, I suppose)?

[venomsnake]

Little mentioned fact is that after WWII the soviets took almost 1M people laborers from Germany to USSR. I think some of them returned.

The allies also used a lot of them. Not their brightest hour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labor_of_Germans_after_W...