Did the Soviet Union have class distinctions after the 20s? Was wealth hereditary or entirely determined by merit...

Did the Soviet Union have class distinctions after the 20s? Was wealth hereditary or entirely determined by merit? How would a Soviet individual rise socially?

How did Soviet leaders justify living in palaces?

Absolutely, the difference was class and money was determined by family history and loyalty to the regime rather than money. If your uncle was Lenin you were always going to live well but if you were a lowly worker who's grandpappy supported the whites you would be constantly shit on no matter what you as an individual did and could never rise. If you tried to run as a politician there'd be something dug up about how your second cousin twice removed once tore up a propaganda poster and you'd be disparaged forever more because of it.

Ironically the regime that overthrew the hereditary Tsars was more hereditary and classist than ever before.

t. Ivan Kulakovich

'sup Ivan Kulakovich

Nope. It simply could not escape the overwhelming Tsarist traditions of hereditary social status.

Until 1917, most Russian universities would not accept students without direct connection to the nobility.

t. Ivan Kulakovich

t. Ivan Kulakovich

soviet union was state capitalist

Spoke to someone who used to live in the USSR prior to it's collapse, he said it was extremely nepotistic he had a good government job because of his father, he said

Not sure about the USSR but in my country the nomenklatura was basically the new nobility. They and their kids got preferential treatment in everything.

t. nomenklatura kid