The irrigation plan was in response to the famine, and it worked, it was the last famine in the soviet union.
also the soviet union was totalitarian, not communist
We only have two options.
No one mentioned communism?
The person you’re replying to did, when he pointed out that a communist regime wasted a ton of water.
I think I get your point; that the inverse of corrupt (I call it fake) capitalism is not necessarily communism, or something reactive. It might just be a system that works better, even if we have not named it yet...