So according to you the whole world canceled immigration and that's why there was a world wide depression?
And yet in the depression there were more workers than jobs. How would bringing more immigrants have fixed that?
Sounds like the same fake CCP numbers syndrome we're treated to today because from 1921 to 1923 America was spoon feeding Russia.
1. No, capitalism inevitably goes through boom and bust cycles and a depression was a crisis waiting to happen. It was just precipitated and exacerbated by anti-market decisions made in the U.S.
2. Allowing the workers to freely go where the jobs were would have allowed for the most efficient pairing of the most qualified workers in the world with the most desirable jobs in the world. Instead efforts to alleviate unemployment were unnecessarily complicated by the edict that workers had to stay in especially backward places even if there weren’t jobs there.
3. The Soviet Union overcame the conditions of backwardness and civil war with the Stalin industrialization. Actually there was mass starvation during the period of rapid economic growth too but that was due to the bureaucratic dictatorship’s decision to deliberately starve the peasants in order to accumulate capital in the state’s hands and to gain political advantage for the left wing of the party by killing off the social base of the right … but this callous decision by the counterrevolutionaries emulating capitalist methods doesn’t change the fact that it was ultimately socialism that made that kind of growth possible, hat sustained if more modest growth would have been possible without the brutal exploitation of the peasants, or that the Soviet Union succeeded in growing its economy while every capitalist country’s was retracting.