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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (28 children)

Is this some contemporary soviet propaganda? I mean all the people who died for political reasons or because the state economy was mismanaged probably don't care much about these achievements.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (25 children)

(To borrow from Cowbee's comment a bit) Wealth inequality was far lower in the Soviet Union's socialist system than the Tsarist system before it, the capitalist system after it was overthrown (obviously), and than western capitalist countries in the same time period.

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/soviets-oligarchs-inequality-and-property-russia-1905-2016

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Funny you focus on whatever this is and conveniently ignore the millions murdered by the state.

I'm here because my family escaped that shit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Funny you focus on whatever this is

Is it a bad thing to highlight that wealth disparity dramatically shrank in the USSR and dramatically increased in the Russian Federation?

and conveniently ignore the millions murdered by the state.

Are you referring to Nazi sympathizers, the Tsarist White Army, or Capitalist insurgents?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wealth disparity is a hilarious metric to use when everyone was poor.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Incorrect. On top of having free healthcare, education, and lower retirement ages than the US, GDP rose rapidly.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

GDP has something to do with personal wealth?!... hmmm

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

GDP Per Capita.

Wealth disparity lowered, GDP Per Capita raised. Where do you think this went?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Won’t somebody please think of the Nazis and gusanos!

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago

Mine too, it's hard to call the dissolution of USSR illegal when it was initiated by people escaping Soviet bloc countries in droves.

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