Some more on why I say it was vastly negative under communism.
Well, horrendous lack of freedom for one thing, concentration camps and repressions for all who disagree with the Communist party, creating a society of constant mistrust where everyone is being watched by everyone else to see if they're suspicious; for most of the time, you couldn't migrate freely within the country, for example, if you graduate as a doctor/dentist, you cannot chose where you work, you work where you're allocated by the government; you cannot buy yourself a home anywhere you want; if you want to buy a car, a TV set or anything like that, they put your name on a list an you had to wait for months, sometimes even years - especially for cars - before you get yours; oh and do you think you could choose what type of car you get - forget about it, there's some one responsible for planning the economy who chooses that for you. Even in places where you could chose for yourself, there was an extremely limited choice of consumer goods.
About what you're saying: you can invest a lot more money than you can afford to push up your GDP; but at some later point you have to pay the price for that. That's what I'm saying: there was some progress, but the economic development model of planned economy was unsustainable, therefore it crashed. Factories were destroyed because they were inefficient and once in competition with other countries in the broader European market, with no government protection, they failed quickly. And about the 'stupid leaders' - it must be noted that since 1989, for nearly all the time until now, power has been in the hands of pretty much the same people/circles who ruled before 1989.
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