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To: nanrod
The big problem with the soviet system was not as obvious as many think. Basically, there was no responsibility in the system. Under our own system, there are small and large farms, companies which make tractors and equipment, chains of grocery stores, trucking companies and private truckers, grain elevators, futures markets to regulate prices, and at every step of theway, at each link in the chain, there is somebody who will lose money if anything goes more than the littlest bit wrong. Under the commie system there was nothing like that. Nobody ever had anything to lose by screwing up and when anything went wrong, somebody filled out a form and sent it up to the top where it was filed. Private garden plots were 2% of the arable land and were producing half the food which people actually ate.

So what you're saying is that no western migrations ever took place regardless of who it was because the land was so good?

824 posted on 12/02/2002 8:48:35 PM PST by #3Fan
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