Like yes, Mao would have axed Deng so damned hard if he'd known the plan.
But while I have strong criticisms of Dengist policies, China is still here, still doing a socialism, and the Warsaw Pact is not. Hard choices had to be made in the 80s, and the survival of AES was more important than any policy, so I forgive them having little a NEP as a treat.
Like yes, Mao would have axed Deng so damned hard if he'd known the plan.
But while I have strong criticisms of Dengist policies, China is still here, still doing a socialism, and the Warsaw Pact is not. Hard choices had to be made in the 80s, and the survival of AES was more important than any policy, so I forgive them having little a NEP as a treat.
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New Economic Policy, basically "transitional socialism" that allows private capitalism and running state enterprises for profit
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cope