The Soviet system was boiled down to just that lowest common denominator that Bloomburg talks about.
Collective farms and party boss controlled factories.
A beacon of light in a dusky world of labor and industry.......right??
keeps millions of peasants too busy to cause trouble, eh?
You have to keep them down, but not too far down.
Its a balancing act!
It also kind of goes by country. Take for example the French. They starting cutting off the heads of nobles WAY earlier than the Russkies ever thought to.
What sparked revolution in France would have been merely a mild discomfort in Mother Russia.
