Quote from: K-Dog on Jan 05, 2025, 09:19 PM

QuoteThe Soviet Union not only eliminated the exploiting classes of the old order, but also ended inflation, unemployment, racial and national discrimination, grinding poverty, and glaring inequalities of wealth, income, education, and opportunity. In fifty years, the country went from an industrial production that was only 12 percent of that in the United States to industrial production that was 80 percent and an agricultural output 85 percent of the U.S. Though Soviet per
capita consumption remained lower than in the U.S., no society had ever increased living standards and consumption so rapidly 2in such a short period of time for all its people. Employment was guaranteed. Free education was available for all, from kindergarten through secondary schools (general, technical and vocational), universities, and after-work schools. Besides free tuition, post-secondary students received living stipends. Free health care existed for all, with about twice as many doctors per person as in the United States. Workers who were injured or ill had job guarantees and sick pay. In the mid-1970s, workers
averaged 21.2 working days of vacation (a month's vacation), and sanitariums, resorts, and children's camps were either free or subsidized. Trade unions had the power to veto firings and recall managers. The state regulated all prices and subsidized the cost of basic food and housing. Rents constituted only 2-3 percent of the family budget; water and utilities only 4-5 percent. No segregated housing by income existed. Though some neighborhoods were reserved for high officials, elsewhere plant managers, nurses, professors and janitors lived side by side.

When the Bolsheviks filled the Romanoffs full of lead in a Ruskie basement in 1917, Mother Russia was an agrarian society that had been ruled by a brutal monarchy going all the way back to the Rus, descendants of the Vikings.  The Romanoff dynastye went all the way back to Peter the Great at the end of the 17th century.  Peasants had nothing, they were serfs bound as slaves to the land from birth and owned by the aristocracy.  Pogroms in the 1800s were undertaken to exterminate Jews and drive them out of the country, a century before Hitler.

By the  time WWII rolled around not even a quarter century later, the USSR was an industrial economy producing Kaalishnikov assault rifles superior to the arms made by Remington, Winchester and Smith & Wesson, who had been manufacturing small arms for a century.  By the 1960s together with the German scientists they inherited from the Nazis they built the most powerful nuke weapon ever created and tested, the Tsar Bomba, a 50 megaton thermonuclear device.  They beat our German scientists putting Sputnik into orbit and put Yuri Gagarin into space while we were still sending up chimpanzees.  By the 1980s ,  their education system was producing STEM Ph.D.s while our education system was failing to teach basic math.

Eventually, they were outmaneuvered economically by the Rothschild & Rockefeller controlled banking system , the IMF hitmen, the CIA destabilizing goobermints and using the Israelis to destabilize and control MENA with a perpetual war.  They've certainly had their own problems with corruption, but to this day they don't have the kind of slums we have in cities like NY, Chicago Los Angeles and Philadelphia.  They don't have near the epidemic of gang violence and drug either, although there certainly is plenty of organized crime there too.

Anyhow, you can make all sorts of comparisons, but in the area of housing for their population, they dida better job for a laerger percentage of their population.

RE