Why is russia so poor?
>inb4 communism
How could the conditions for such a situation arise?
Why is russia so poor?
Adam Brown
Zachary Reyes
Corruption and poor rule of law are detrimental to growth.
Russia was always corrupt as fuck and its courts and administration were always completely arbitrary.
Justin Torres
This. I blame Stalin, mostly
Nicholas Hughes
They spent their money on cold war instead of the economic development.
Levi Johnson
>This. I blame Stalin, mostly
Corruption and lack of rule of law weren't developed during the Commie era. They were dragged from the Imperial era. In Imperial Russia it was virtually impossible to have an official to do anything without a kickback. In fact, corruption wasn't even seen as something bad.
Eli Campbell
>They spent their money on cold war instead of the economic development.
They spent shitton of money and resources on development. Only that development was completely retarded. The Soviet planners were unconcerned with the notion whether some investment made sense or not.
Logan Edwards
Since OP can't inb4
Communism
Andrew Richardson
Korea and Taiwan are corrupt and have poor rule of law, but they both became wealthy, modern countries from being dirt poor.
Jaxon Morris
I think Russia never recovered from the over 25 million people who died in WW2 + all those who died in the revolution, civil war, gulags, etc.
their population falls every year, their birth rate is very low, and probably many of the births are from not ethnic russians.
they spend too much money on the military, for a country with a population comparable to Germany + France, but much much poorer than them.
Grayson Gonzalez
This is true, but in the couple of decades before 1914 Imperial Russia was actually developing and industrializing at a rapid rate. WWI and the civil war then fucked things up.