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> I have a pet theory that the state-planned economies failed not because they were inefficient Well, a lot of it was corruption. A sufficient level of corrupt

• aebtebeten 2y ago
  That suggests a plausible mechanism for why the dissolution of the Union was so peaceful: faced with a call for glasnost' from Moscow, local leaders preferred to quietly leave? Do we have any reasonable datasets for before-and-after corruption levels in the FSU, or would that be a project which would* need another 3-5 decades to be viable? * in the absence of sufficient well-placed cabbage? EDIT: circumstantial, but chin-scratch-worthy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasnost#Opposition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasnost#Opposition (romania's post-communist transition was exceptionally** violent) ** here I count the stans as having suffered from preexisting violence