This article is a bad joke on oh so many levels. There was no planned economy in the USSR, there was a command system, pretending to be planned economy, in the USSR. There were no politics in the USSR, only the masquerade of pretense. No mass deportations of several peoples wholesale is ever mentioned. No state antisemitism (of varying degrees in each sub-epoch, true) is ever mentioned, including severe restrictions on freedom of higher education for Jews in the 70s and 80s. Censorship is only mentioned being lessened in the Kruschev's supposed "thaw" which apparently allowed for freer expression of artists!!! Was this written using the History of CPSU (bolsheviks) as a reliable source?????!!!!!!?!?!!!!??? WTF!