<span>The Soviet command economy could not keep up with the productivity of capitalist economies. Hope this helps!!</span>
They sought to answer their necessity for growth and industrial production. They were producing and needed more resources and places to sell so they colonized places and they wanted to become stronger so that they could beat other European powers and then they more or less ruined the world with colonization and wars.
Yes there is a maximum age but I can't remember what it is.
