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I disagree with the reasons you gave, feeding those in need didn't hurt the USSR and the GULAG system was abolished several decades prior to the dissolution of the USSR. It's ultimately a complicated issue, but one that I believe ultimately had to do with rejecting much of the world economy, which resulted in a form of Siege Socialism.