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Both can be true. Over time the Soviet Union economy got worse because there was no corrective mechanism. A lot of the leadership (especially Stalin) was more interested in maintaining their own power than governing effectively. The Soviet Union being subject to US interference couldn't be a democracy, but it's difficult to correct errors in the economy without democracy.
China has managed to overcome the issue of dictatorships, and it'll be interesting to see what'll happen as America shoots itself in the foot.
"Overcome the issue of democracy"
Party based neoliberal "representative democracy" is a pretty big scam xd
I meant dictatorship, I have fixed it. Generally dictatorships can't really correct course when they're making errors, in terms of the institutions they've built they're failing to do that but in terms of policy they are generally correcting the mistakes they make (albeit slowly).