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The Centrally Planned Economy - The Soviet Union

By the end of the 80s, it had become this obsession with making this rational system work. It was leading to the most extraordinary outcomes where you would actually do things like create money out of nothing. Mr Khodokovsky realised he could take what was called non-cash and turn it into real cash. He just saw how if you start plugging capitalism into a non-capitalist system, you get something very weird and very strange.

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