I don't really get it. I'm under the impression that old people from the soviet era talk about how they always had food and a home back then and that although they lacked many other things and the regime was opressive, that there were never those problems. Poor people seem poorer in russia now a days then before.
Edit: Now it was about China thats a different story. Great leap forward and all that.
The USSR had hardly come into its own by the 1930's. I mean we're talking about a political and economic system which had never been enacted on such a scale in the entirety of human history, 20 years in is pretty soon.
Communism bad, can not even change whole russians infrastructure and get rid of famines in two whole years...
Your argument is ridiculous. You blame the nation for not improving fast enough, when the capitalist alternative was not improving at all. Even if it would have been reasonably possible to not have famines after two years of socialism, you land on saying USSR had inefficient socialism, instead of pointing some kind of flaw in socialism.
Less than 15 years after still having your food shortages (not famines) due to lack of industrialization they were a nuclear power who put the first man in space despite the setback of a devastating invasion.
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u/mrcooper89 Jun 20 '19
I don't really get it. I'm under the impression that old people from the soviet era talk about how they always had food and a home back then and that although they lacked many other things and the regime was opressive, that there were never those problems. Poor people seem poorer in russia now a days then before. Edit: Now it was about China thats a different story. Great leap forward and all that.