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They couldn't build a car for sh!t, but their rockets were practical, if not eminently reliable.
And that was their downfall.
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And that was their downfall.
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The Soviets had a lot of downfalls, only two of which were the inability to make consumer goods and a misallocation of resources towards space (we could argue the latter point).I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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