After Stalin, how bad was it really?

After Stalin, how bad was it really?

Soviet Union during the Khruschev and Brezhnev years was probably the only time during the entirety of Russian history when things weren't getting worse.

>that map
kek
I guess China remained capitalist in this scenario.

wut. It's of the USSR. why would china be on there?

>mongol ssr
>manchu ssr

What is this bullshit?

>mongol ssr
to be fair it was a soviet puppet state
the manchu ssr i don't get

i think maybe it's supposed to mean post ww2 communist rebels.

>Brezhnev years
>things weren't getting worse
They were literally the years when the entire Soviet Union started going to shit.

Eh. Sort of, man. That was when the economy started to stagnate, but stellar economic growth doesn't = a happy populace. Not that people during the Brezhnev era were happy or comfortable -- the Soviet Union was never a very nice place -- but by and large in the mid-late-60s, 70s, they were living better than they ever had before.

To reiterate, though, their standard of living being much improved from what it was a generation before doesn't mean it was up to western standards. Not even close. I shouldn't even have to explicitly write that, but I know otherwise someone will jump down my throat and accuse me of being a "leftard" or whatever.

>Things keep getting worse!

>That's why we no longer harness women to pull our ploughs!

I know some people who lived there or visited it in the post-Stalin era. It was apparently rather poor by Western standards but things like healthcare and education were very widespread, and culture was very accessible.