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And a relevant passage from This Soviet World by Anna Louise Strong
How frustrating. I can’t seem to find a paper copy of this book for sale anywhere. There’s an archived copy online which seems really interesting: https://archive.org/details/this-soviet-world/page/173/mode/2up
Yea, I don’t think it is being sold as a paper copy anywhere, I did however type it up: https://comlib.encryptionin.space/epubs/this-soviet-world/
Thank you for transcribing a better version. Reading over the agriculture section it seems fascinating.
It is a very interesting book. I recommend reading it.
That part about gold being impossible to depose didn’t age well. 😢
Well, USSR wasn’t really dictatorship of proletariat, but rather dictatorship of party leader(s) and the KGB
The government in USSR very much represented the working class. Maybe actually spend a bit of time learning about USSR instead of regurgitating propaganda points you’ve memorized?
edit: I love how mad libs of lemmy get when faced with basic historical facts
The government in USSR very much represented the working class
so… ruling working class => bad living conditions and massive genocide / famines, while ruling bourgeoise => only bad living conditions? got it
literally the reverse is true, but do go on there
so there were no famines/genocides in the USSR?
Famines were a common occurrence in the Russian empire and were one of the driving factors behind the revolution.
What happened after Communists took over is that USSR doubled life expectancy in just 20 years. A newborn child in 1926-27 had a life expectancy of 44.4 years, up from 32.3 years thirty years before. In 1958-59 the life expectancy for newborns went up to 68.6 years. the Semashko system of the USSR increased lifespan by 50% in 20 years. By the 1960’s, lifespans in the USSR were comparable to those in the USA:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union
- https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB5054/index1.html
Quality of nutrition improved after the Soviet revolution, and the last time USSR had a famine was in 1940s. CIA data suggests they ate just as much as Americans after WW2 peroid while having better nutrition:
- https://www.scribd.com/document/430076844/CIA-RDP84B00274R000300150009-5-pdf
- https://artir.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/compar1.png?w=640
Once again, maybe spend a bit of time educating yourself instead of trolling here?
you’re talking mostly about post WW2. what do you say about the holodomor?
also you conveniently didn’t talk about genocide
There were famines, everybody knows of the 1932-33. And the 1921-1922? although, since the U.S.S.R didn’t exist until 1923, I guess it wasn’t a famine in the U.S.S.R. There was the siege of Leningrad, resulting in starvation.
There was also a genocide in the U.S.S.R., in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded, and subsequently they would murder millions of innocent citizen, some of it as part of the Holocaust, but many were not jews.
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