DBWI: Planned economy persisting in USSR?

What if USSR kept it's planned economy instead of gradually adopting capitalist principles with increasing focus on computarization we saw OTL since Kosygin's "Desyatiletka"(1970-1980)?
I guess a good POD would be averting assassination of Leonid Brezhnev in 1969, as he was a big opponent of his reforms...
 
I'm guessing my iPhone wouldn't have been made in a factory in Novosibirsk. I wonder if Amnesty International would be so up Russia's backside about freeing Vladimir Putin; he is, after all, a domestic terrorist in a lot of people's minds.
 
I reckon it'd probably cripple the Soviet Economy in a similar way that the People's Republic of Japan's own industry went kaput during the early 80s. Then again, it might not have since the Soviets have a stronger base of resources to use and was usually a cut above in the bureaucracy department.
 
Frankly I think it would have gone well. If the Soviet people hadn't been at the mercy of the global market in the seventies' recessions and depression their quality of life would be so much higher today.
 
It'd be doing what Lenin actually wanted to achieve: a worker's paradise. Now the USSR is anything but either a paraside or a place for workers...
 
I reckon it'd probably cripple the Soviet Economy in a similar way that the People's Republic of Japan's own industry went kaput during the early 80s. Then again, it might not have since the Soviets have a stronger base of resources to use and was usually a cut above in the bureaucracy department.

Yeah, who would have guessed the ROJ would be better off than the PRJ especially after the National Party's disastrous austerity measures in the 70s?
 
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