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Consequences of the destruction of the USSR

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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] With the preservation of the USSR, 172 million people could now live in Russia, and the economy and incomes of the population were 67% higher

★ As a result of the destruction of the Soviet Union, Russia lost 26 million people, 40% of the economy and 66% of industry, Equality estimated. This is the difference between actual indicators and alternative ones, which would have been formed at Soviet growth rates, average for 1980-1989.

Population loss - 26 million
According to the forecast of the USSR State Statistics Committee from 1990, in the RSFSR by the end of 2022, 172.4 could live million people But in fact it is now 146.4 million people.

This assumes that Soviet statistics were actually true, and had been true since Lenin ruled in the Kremlin. Not to mention that the forecasts used reasonable assumptions... How would you bet, dear Reader?

Loss of income - 41%
The average monthly disposable income of 80% of Russians (without the rich) in 2022 amounted to about 25,550 rubles. With Soviet growth rates and levels of inequality, they would have become 43,000 rubles, or 68% more.

Economic losses - 40%
"As you know, in the 80s there was a "stagnation." In 1985, economic growth slowed down to 2.3%, which was used as an excuse to start perestroika. But at such growth rates, GDP would now be 2.1 times higher than in 1990, and not by 26%, as in fact. The Russian economy (GDP at PPP) amounted to $7.7 trillion instead of $4.6 trillion and would take 4th place in the world after China, the USA and India.

Loss of production - 66%

Loss of agriculture - 44%

Loss of assets - 56%

Geopolitical losses - 32%

A similar assessment of the consequences of the war of 1941-1945 showed that the loss of the Russian population amounted to 20 million people, as estimated by Rosstat. The economy of Soviet Russia lost 44%, industry - 41%, agriculture - 43%. The country missed 45% of wealth, and the population - 37% of income.

As you can see, the destruction of the USSR and the transition from socialism to capitalism, that is, to a lower stage of social development,

... it definitely is lower, if you’re standing on your head...

turned out to be losses for Russia that are comparable to the losses from the Nazi occupation of 1941-1945. If you look more broadly and take into account the split of the fraternal republics and the world-historical consequences, the destruction of the Soviet Union is the largest geopolitical catastrophe in the history of mankind.

@ravenstvomedia - zinc

According to a poll published by VTsIOM, 58% of Russians regret the collapse of the USSR. 48% would like to restore it.

The Russian wife of a colleague of Mr. Wife’s — a souvenir of his education in Moscow —even in 1990 greatly missed the simplicity of life as the child of scientists in the Soviet era. The summers in the dacha, the lack of vulgar pursuit of profit or politics... the usual thing of the former privileged class.

Posted by: badanov 2022-12-31

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