And you said that's not the point.. my question is what is your point? You don't seem to have one.
Are you just pointing out they grew fast under the 5 year plan as a piece of pointless trivia or does that fact actually have some implications regarding the efficacy of planned economies? If you want to argue that then you simply have to take the consequences of those policies into account. There's no way around it. Either you bite the bullet and say the ends justify the means or you accept that that method of rapid industrialization is not particularly useful or desirable if we're trying to construct a working alternative to the capitalist mode of production. It's really that simple.
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