Originally posted by seanD
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The Soviets economy was mismanaged, but still was particularly successful in industrializing.
The Chinese story is different, Mao never tried to industrialize on a western scale or scope, preferring to emphasize the transforming society and people. The horrors of the sixties prompted the post-Mao leaders to liberalized while avoiding the Soviet concessions of Kruschev, who could never regain the same level of control that Stalin had.
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