Yup, I'm delivering today. Mindblowingly accurate historical revelation. Because most of you are sports fans, I'll keep this simple. Ok, so for those of you that don't know, Russia wasn't always called Russia. Yes, I know crazy, but countries can switch names. So the Soviet Union is the more politically correct term for the Russia of old, the one the United States hated. And in terms of leaders, before the current era of 'chev's, the U.S.S.R. was run by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. And basically they ran the country into the ground and there was war and death and poverty, and yeah whatever, who really cares. And at this point, you may be wondering, am I going to talk about Russian Hockey or Bandy, as they call it? The answer is fuck no, there's no hockey on this blog. The answer to what I am going to talk about relates to a popular policy during the Soviet era. The possibly senile minds of Lenin and Stalin had a habit of declaring 5-year economic pl...