Genuine question so please don’t hate on me. It seems to me that china now is more of a mixed market than a planned economy. Billionaires and class disparities definitely still exist in China and it seems like american communists almost romanticize china while ignoring obvious flaws in its system, only because they (rightfully) hate america and america hates China. China also supplies all of the world’s exploitative corporations with the vast majority of their goods. While China is probably better than the capitalist economies of the west, I don’t understand why a lot of people seem to hold it in the same regard as the USSR.
It basically directly correlated to how much internal revolutionary forces were present. So Yugoslavia did the best, Czechoslovakia/Bulgaria/East Germany were in the middle while Poland and to a lesser extent Romania were barely functional.
not a terrible analysis. though czechoslovakia had a very extensive partisan group that was almost entirely communist, some of my relatives were in it! theyd mostly be killing fascist slovak collaborators in the mountains heres a song btw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o98d_GouBPQ
Well, Poland also had Gwardia Ludowa and PKWN, and their members basically built a new Polish state, but they still had much less influence than communist partisans in other Eastern European countries.