ABSTRACT
Khrushchev expressed the conviction that socialism would be victorious because the citizens of underdeveloped countries would, deep down, be convinced of the system’s superiority. On the contrary, however, the state socialist recipes showed themselves to be catastrophic from the point of view of both the supply of basic needs and the general well-being of the economy. The underdeveloped countries found much more tempting models in the South-East Asian ‘tigers’, indeed even in China.
