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Can you name a few those big Soviet corporations, since you're totally not talking out of your ass and scrambling for excuses for saying something stupid?
Lukoil, X5, NLMK, Nornickel, Suek...that's just a few of them that exist right this second.
If you're specifically talking about under say, Lenin, his NEP allowed for private enterprise, an "enterprise" being their legal equivalent of a "company:"
"not only were "private property, private enterprise, and private profit largely restored in Lenin's Russia," but Lenin's regime turned to international capitalism for assistance, willing to provide "generous concessions to foreign capitalism."
"The popular myth that private trade was fully banned by the Communist Party is only partially true. Looking at the entire 69-year period of Soviet history, it turns out that even under the Bolshevik regime entrepreneurs had their “golden age”. And it happened shortly after the establishment of the communist system."
USSR had about 3.5 million private farms in 1941, so essentially the lion's share of their farming was private, private research labs existed and contributed to their technological advancement, and then there were the industrial artels.
The idea you have in your head about how Soviet Communism actually worked is likely largely propaganda nonsense.
