I figured I’d ask here since you comrades know history and are on talking terms with reality, unlike a lot of stuff that is available to read online. I am really looking for a short answer, although I know there were many factors playing out over a long long time. Just the bullet points, if you please.
Edit: Thank you for these awesome answers, a lot of exactly what I was looking for and a lot of new directions to explore. Y’all really are the dope-ass bear B-)
I big problem afaik was simply the lack of computational power. The USSR was notedly slow and even unwilling to respect and adopt digital computers as a technology. It turns out that planning a complex economy (more or less) by hand is really hard and leads to mistakes!
This is unfortunately a historical continuity from tsarist Russia.