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volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 3 days agoYou can’t say the same things about Churchill, there was no massive equalisation of wages in England during his rule, nor a planned economy guaranteeing a job to anyone who wanted a job, nor a collectivisation of agriculture and of the means of production, nor a state-backing of unions, nor an immense push towards literacy and women’s rights and education…
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Equalisation of wages in the USSR: Lets lower all wages to the lowest of them all and introduce corruption as an obligation to survive!
Handy tool against dissidents too, corruption.
volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Regarding corruption, I made a little writeup a while ago about why corruption is systematically overestimated in the USSR which, if you’re arguing from good faith, you won’t have a problem checking out.
Regarding “lowering wages”, you’re simply wrong. That’s just from the 60s, but material wealth of people rose at unparalleled speed in the USSR, faster than any country before that. And when the USSR economy stagnated in the 70s, real median wages kept rising at around 3.5% yearly
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ha ha ha corruption was baked in the system, ask anyone who actually lived there and don’t get your information from facebook or lemmy ml.
I wonder why you push so hard for this revisionism, it was just a brutal dictatorship, wages went up under Hitler too lol.
volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 3 days ago
I sourced my information, you can do the same instead of disregarding it because it doesn’t match your ahistorical, uneducated, vibes-based conception of history