>>715794929
politics is way more nuanced now and the commie way is not really the best and is now hard to achieve due to how strong industrialists are.

laissez faire + free trade and basing your whole economy on the free market is extremely powerful IF your country is rich and can invest overseas (otherwise all the big companies will invest and steal everything from you).

>>715794874
Don't see why not but it's a bit like cheating if you have to play Russia first to release Poland and then switch.