Message from @Dysk
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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
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.
Not to mention eating poor quality potatoes all day unsuprinsingly gets your calorie intake up
No those were directly from the Russian state
Other things like millitary intellegence was gathered independently