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    2 days ago

    The USSR was not self-sufficient for starters

    The USSR was from the start banned from international trade for the sin of being communist, only after WW2 did world markets open to it. Even then, it didn’t rely on any country for its energetic, food, material, or industrial needs. You can read about this on Robert C. Allen’s “Farm to Factory” or Alec Nove’s “An economic history of the USSR”. I’m not making things up, this is widely known.

    No comment on the China thing. But if that’s the model that works, you should seek to establish a Communist Party rule in your country.