In Defense of the Red Army

[kato13]

Originally Posted by Raellus

I wonder if the Soviet Union could have survived, or even thrived, had it instituted Chinese-style economic reforms starting in the early-to-mid 1980s....

This might be the most realistic explanation for an extant, strong USSR in a T2k timeline.

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IMHO lots of things work against this.

Too few ports, too many borders, too many ethnicities, too paranoid, too confrontational, too proud, too isolationist, too expensive for foreign manufacturing, and too corrupt (Which compared to China is saying something).