You’re contradicting yourself a bit. You reference capitalism as being good for innovation, but then reference the technological advances the soviets made, beating the US into space. You say the Soviets didn’t learn from the 1930s famine, but it was the last famine outside of wartime in the Soviet Union.
It’s also a blunder to blame all problems on leadership. The USSR was run collectively, and the leadership was not uniquely “stupid,” they were in general very competent. They were also not especially selfish. Some leaders were better or worse than others, but the Soviet Union was run by the mass proletariat, with the CPSU as the organized element.
You’re contradicting yourself a bit. You reference capitalism as being good for innovation, but then reference the technological advances the soviets made, beating the US into space. You say the Soviets didn’t learn from the 1930s famine, but it was the last famine outside of wartime in the Soviet Union.
It’s also a blunder to blame all problems on leadership. The USSR was run collectively, and the leadership was not uniquely “stupid,” they were in general very competent. They were also not especially selfish. Some leaders were better or worse than others, but the Soviet Union was run by the mass proletariat, with the CPSU as the organized element.