1 The soviet economy was more than developed than rest of the world except for the US 2 It had a complex economy communication network, vast energy resources including oil, iron ,steel, machinery production and a transport sector that connected its remotes area with efficiency 3 It had domestic consumer industry that produced everything from pin to cars through their quality did not match that of the wester capitalist countries 4 The soviet state ensured a minimum standard of living for all citizens and the government subsidies basic necessities including health education, children care and other welfare schemes 5 There was no unemployment 6 State ownership was the dominating from of owner ship land and productive assests were owned and controlled by the soviet states