I too lived through Soviet occupation, and I tell you Rand was just as delusional as the characters in the garbage she wrote.

If Rand was correct at any grade Chinese Communism, the EU, North Korea, others would have collapsed a long time ago.

The fact is, mediocre political and economical systems linger on forever, there is no "collapse".

Rand was a puritan, an idealist and a bad one even for that.