List the problems that weakened the soviet economy during the 1960s and 1970s.

There were several things that could be mentioned as reasons for the weakened economy of the Soviet Union during these decades. As the country modernized, their planned economy did not have the proper structure to account for the deep changes that modernization brought about. Moreover, the volume of decisions that needed to be taken became overwhelming for its government, and bureaucracy became very slow. Finally, the War in Afghanistan greatly damaged the Soviet economy.

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john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.