So we always here free-marketeers and libertarians say that government programs don't work. But if a Soviet style, bureaucratic, planned economy doesn't work then explain to me why:
Russia was transferred from a feudal, medievalist country to a space faring nation in merely 40 years.
National Socialist Germany produced the most advanced weaponry, rockets and technology and huge advances in sciences in general.
During Stalin Russia spiked massive population growth of about 2 / 3 million a year.
Soviet Union constructed some of the most technologically advanced transport craft
(Antonov An-225 largest plane ever, 60 year old Soyuz Space-rockets still being used today by NASA, ak-47 the most used rifle in the world, T-55 most produced tank in the world.)
Russia rapidly became an industrialized world superpower armed with nuclear weapons, nuclear submarines, etc. Send the first man and satellite into space. (Yes, many of it was from stolen national socialist-tech, but the national socialists were also not free-market and had a state economy that produced such advanced tech.)
Also please explain the rapid growth of the Chinese economy, living conditions, science and military, which is also not free-market but state-capitalism (or more fascist economy.)
And not to forget the giant rebuilding of Germany, it's nation, it's military and it's country after the Wallstreet crash of 1929.
Some of the largest constructions in the world have been made with state-subsidy.
It seems to me the free-market sucks at big advances and leaps in mankind. It was NASA that made the first men step on the moon. Now that NASA's budget has been radically reduced and more space industry is privatized, the space-race was ended. Yes, we have SpaceX now, but if it wasn't for NASA contracts, they wouldn't survive. SpaceX =/= free market so you can't use that as an argument. SpaceX is building upon tech that was created through bureaucracy of government projects.
so explain pls