I have worked with business headed toward bankruptcy. They are cash flow managers. As long as they have any source of cash there is no problem. Then the cash stops and it is the fault of whoever stopped the cash.
How did the cash flow stop for the Soviet Union?
“How did the cash flow stop for the Soviet Union?”
The problem with the USSR was that without a market system the command economy relied on the notion of “work hard or you will be shot.” Once Gorbachev removed the heavy handed restrictions workers stopped showing up and the economy collapsed.