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Rather, it's structured similarly if not the same to modern China's economic system. Central planning mixed with markets. The question is, what if this had arisen in the Soviet Union right off the bat? Now, how, I don't know, NEP gets expanded a lot. If they can ideologically justify that, they can ideologically justify this.

The question is, what impact would this have economically? China has rapidly become one of the most powerful economies in the world through that combination, would the Soviet Union have been able to do similarly?
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