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[–] uis@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The old USSR did an excellent job of surveying the future population demands and building housing accordingly.

Indeed. What USSR did really well is housing, healthcare and education. And looked into future. "We need to build school here because 30 years later current kids will have X kids that need to go to school". Not that it didn't have own downsides.

These conditions aren't going to last in Russia.

I have to agree here for now. Degradation of education system is glaringly obvious. Healthcare in regions too. Housing... slowly deteriorates.

But as Putin pivots back to a more command oriented economy

Except Putin's command economy will exist only to build more yachts for him and his oligarchs.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Not that it didn’t have own downsides.

Not unreasonably, people in these very structured economies would balk when they felt they were on rails heading into a profession or career that lacked prestige or a high quality of living. Everyone wants to be the company boss, nobody wants to be the guy working the line.

Except Putin’s command economy will exist only to build more yachts for him and his oligarchs.

Hardly. One of the critical impacts of sanctions on the Russian economy have been a deficit of luxury goods. But they've got tons of legacy capital from back when they used to make shit and export it to their allies abroad. Russian commercial airlines may become a thing again. Russian automobiles already are. And there's quite a bit downstream in the economy that's very lucrative to produce without needing to be larcenous.

The string of wars Putin's getting his country into makes these kind of industrial centers vital. He doesn't have the luxury of building yachts.