If Stalin was a girl I’d smash.

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@Dysk Is actually right

Stalin turned a peasent society.

Into a world power.

And in 1950 they could have beaten America.

Or atleast sweep through all of Europe.

Well they swept through half of Europe.

Pretty good going really if you think about it.

After Lenin's death, Trotsky, Kamenev, and Stalin are brought to a room in the Kremlin and told that Lenin had one final test for who would become his successor. They were all given a pistol, told to enter a specific room, and shoot anyone inside to demonstrate their loyalty to the Soviet cause.

Kamenev goes in first, but he comes out sobbing a minute later. "It was my mother in there. I couldn't do it!"

Trotsky goes in later, but he comes out choking back tears shortly after. "I'd do anything for the revolution, but I can't kill my poor old mother!"

Finally, Stalin goes in. The others heard the sound of a gunshot, then the sounds of a scuffle. Stalin emerges several minutes later, looking disheveled with scratch marks on his face. "Those damn traitorous pigs!" he shouted. "They gave me blanks, so I had to strangle the old bitch myself!"

Balls of steel

Superpower but starving, hungry, poor quality of life, big restrictions

Lost the arms and space race

Had to lie about stats to keep their propaganda in swing

The only leverage that was there was the size of their country and military which was mostly due to the numbers.

"hehe they had the same chaloric intake as the us hehe"

lol I always laugh at that

If eating potatoes all the time is alot of calories

not to mention the stats

v dodgy stuff

The soviets intentionally starved large areas just to get rid of the peasants.

that's what we should do

It was more of central planning inefficiencies

They modernized by eradication, it worked, but it was brutal.

There were still shortages far beyond the times you're referring to

right up to it's collapse

No it has been proven that all the planning errors were actually deliberate extermination, yes there were shortages, but who those shortage affected was targeted.

No thats just goalpost moving

lol

there were mass shortages throughout the times of the USSR

due to central planning

It wasn't just "deliberate extermination"

My point is that the people who weren't being exterminated had the same food consumption as the average US citizen.

Food consumption =/= calorie intake

Not the same quality, diversity

Not to mention we don't even know if that stat is real

This is the CIA's own stats

The USSR and other such regiemes lied about statistics and frequently falsified them

Not the Russian ones

which was gathered from the state

These are CIA intelligence reports gathered independently to the Russian state.