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it had major shortages of many goods and services

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A command economy was one of the primary principles of communism, so, as a communist state, the Soviet Union felt it was necessary and proper to implement a command economy.

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The Soviet Union implemented a command economy because such an economy is presaged by the Communist principles upon which the country was founded.

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