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Kinds of by necessity as the awaited collapse of late stage capitalism didn't come.
The soviet ruble was not able to be exchanged so the import capacities of the soviet union was limited. Plus, if you piss off the united states, your trade options are also limited, same reason Franco practised autarky until Spain entrance into NATO.
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They still bought a lot from US, technology under Stalin and then basics like Grain under Brezhnev. To import they always needed to export equal amount, but nobody wanted their industrial trash. So Stalin starved half the country to achieve needed exports, while late Soviet union became increasingly dependent on oil exports.
One of the funny consequences of that is when the arab Crysis drove up the price of oil in western markets 3-4 times, soviets went all in on export to cash in as much as possible. As a result, their WP allies received much less oil during the period. So even though they had a major oil producer "ally" they had to suffer shortages with everyone else.
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