Quote Originally Posted by TronDD
Quote Originally Posted by bad manners
How was creativity disallowed in the USSR?
It's not that it is disallowed, it is stiffled.

If everyone recieves equal share of the nation's resources, there is no motivation to try hard.
Why am I trying hard here to help you and the others to learn Russian?

Or do you think that Sakharov chose to be a physicist because he expected enormous material gains?

The fantasy of Communism is that people will work hard for the good of the community but that just doesn't happen.
Of course it does not, when the most powerful country in the world and her satellites spend fifty years doing everything to counter that.

And, BTW, Democracy is not the opposite of Communism. Laise-faire Capitalim is.
You should have told that to Dynamo.