From the backwater of the world to a world power

In 20 years

it's really incredibly impressive, if you ask me

Admittedly the communists did manage to bring the country out from a feudal backward poor country to something in the world stage

That being said communism is pretty much surperior to feudalism

i think just about anything is, lol

and absolute monarchies

Roast me too

https://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/we-lived-better-then/

blog post, but with plentiful sources

However if that had a gradual transformation from a feudal monarchy to a liberal western demoacracy then I feel as if they would have done better in the long run

https://nintil.com/2016/03/26/the-soviet-union-gdp-growth/

8values didn't work so I did politiscales

i can't say i concur, the data seems to show that once they began to introduce reforms such as glasnost and perestroika they began to decline

wait

lemme check out that graph

okie

yep, again it seems to show the same thing

it looks rather stagnate though

D-did you see my s-scales

Still doing better than quite a few asian countries\

i think one discrepancy might be because of the nature of the soviet economic system, namely how it wasn't really intended to generate capital to be effective in a competitive marketplace, but rather something to support its people

wait

lemme check out those scales

looks good 2 me

Whew

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union#cite_ref-SeemingParadox_8-0

wikipedia, i know, but the stuff on birth rates and life expectancy is quite interesting and cited

i need to start compiling all of my sources into a gdoc

@Delta Orion it would have been nothing short of a miracle for the Soviet economy to match the US one, considering how the latter has a higher population and started its industrialization centuries before Russia did.

During the Great Depression what was surprising was how all of the staunchly capitalist Great Powers (US, UK, France) were basically on their knees, with incredibly high unemployment, virtually no growth and the social maladies that appear whenever these two are present.

Meanwhile, the USSR was posting gains and beginning its brutally harsh industrialization. The Soviet economy, completely isolated from world markets, was able no navigate the 1930's untouched by the troubles that the capitalist countries were experiencing.

Spare me your cherrypicked bullshit capitalist

another interesting sidenote: most of those countries only managed to maintain a capitalist economic system by embracing keynesianism, which eventually led to a great slowdown in the 1970s

True the soviet economy was very unlikely to reach the U.S economy, so therefore it would be more fair to compare the growth rates of the two nations

the capitalist system can only survive when people are viewed as sources of capital acquisition and not when they are viewed, as, well, human beings.

also

completely off topic

gimme danger is the most fun song to practice on guitar

Due to low contact with the rest of the world the soviets were barely affected by the great depressions

depression*

just wanted to put that out there