Ironically, Socialist governments are notorious for trying to do incredibly dangerous or messy things on the cheap since nobody gives a rat's butt about consequences, witness Chernobyl, the pollution of Lake Baikal, the state of Balkan infrastructure at the Fall of the Wall, and the current danger from falling fiery objects in the Chinese equivalent of Baikonur/Cape Canaveral.
In fact you can get a pretty good idea of Socialist planning and execution from watching old 'Thunderbirds' episodes, where Future Britain seems to have all sorts of city-devastating disasters just waiting to be triggered by somebody getting lost and wandering into a small room where the violently-defective emergency self-destruct for a nuclear reactor has been mistakenly wired into the light switch.
