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