You don't need to go abroad. We have all the evidence we need right here in this here good old American Confederacy.
The outcome was guaranteed once you realize that central planning takes their staff from central casting - the leaders are out of work pols employed in DC think tanks, and the "thinkers and doers" who do the hard "work" of putting the plans together are fully qualified for these jobs with masters degress in public policy or diplomacy out of places like Georgetown or Fletchers or the Wilson School or the Kennedy School.
All people who got their high positions while never having done a blessed practical thing in the world.
Except John Kerry who got a Purple Heart in Vietnam.
Please don’t besmirch the Confederacy with this clown. At least it relied upon time tested methods.