>mfw between the poverty stricken year of 1924, when Lenin died, and the relatively abundant year of 1940, the cultivated area of USSR expanded by 74 percent; grain crops increased 11 percent; coal production was multiplied by 10; steel output by 18; engineering and metal industries by 150; total national income by 10; industrial output by 24; annual capital investment by 57. During the First Five-year Plan, 51 billion rubles were invested; during the Second, 114; and during the Third, 192. Factory and office workers grew from 7,300,000 to 30,800,000 and school and college students from 7,900,000 to 36,600,000. Between 1913 and 1940, oil production increased from nine to 35 million tons; coal from 29 to 164; pig iron from 4 to 15; steel from 4 to 18; machine tools from 1000 to 48,000 units, tractors from 0 to over 500,000; harvestor combines from 0 to 153,500; electrical power output from two billion kWh to 50 billion; and the value of industrial output from 11 billion rubles to more than 100 billion by 1938. If the estimated volume of total industrial production in 1913 be taken as 100, the corresponding indices for 1938 are 93.2 for France; 113.3 for England, 120 United States; 131.6 for Germany, and 908.8 for the Soviet Union.
Schuman, Frederick L. Soviet Politics. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1946, p. 212
Sebastian Carter
it was worth the hunger
Eli Flores
>3,200 calories a day in 1940 >starving
Bentley Brown
>1930
Brandon Kelly
>still far better than the worse times during the russian empire
Wyatt Moore
maybe the NEP helped in some grade, don't you think?
Colton Adams
The Russian Empire would have done a better job had not been its entry in WWI
Isaac Mitchell
Wow so this is the power of state capitalism.
Hunter Perry
Yeah. Lenin after all was a Marxist and thought capitalism is necessary before socialism, so he tried implementing capitalism first. Stalin just didn't give a fuck and pulled that whole thing back to feudalism. Kolkhozes are literally serfdom.
Jason Jenkins
And then Stalin became the only capitalist of russia.
Xavier Bennett
More like the one feudal monarch. >Later in life, when Stalin achieved prominence in the communist regime in the 1920s, his mother was installed in a palace in the Caucasus, formerly used by the tsar's viceroy. >N. Kipshidze, a doctor who treated Keke in her old age, recalled that when Stalin visited his mother in October 1935, he asked her: "Why did you beat me so hard?" "That's why you turned out so well", Keke answered. In return, his mother asked him: "Joseph – who exactly are you now?" "Do you remember the tsar? Well, I'm like a tsar", replied Stalin.
Brandon Jenkins
>mfw we consider Stalin’s facts and figures, it becomes clear that we are witnessing the most concentrated economic advance ever recorded–greater even than those of the Industrial Revolution. Within 10 years a primarily feudal society had been changed into an industrialized one. And for the first time in history such an advance was due not to capitalism but to socialism.
Cameron, Kenneth Neill. Stalin, Man of Contradiction. Toronto: NC Press, c1987, p. 75
> the most concentrated economic advance ever recorded
> the most concentrated economic advance ever recorded
> the most concentrated economic advance ever recorded
Bentley Bennett
>hoard peasants into farming communities >they don't own anything >they cannot leave >they're forced to do backbreaking labor against their will, and harshly punished if they misbehave >whatever they produce they cannot sell, it goes directly to the lord government, and they're only allowed to keep subsistence >if lord government asks for too much, they have to give up everything they produce and starve to death because lord's will is more important than peasant lives >tfw this is literally serfdom >mfw Stalin was actually a hardliner tsarist reactionary and he secretly recreated feudalism while convincing the world he's actually creating communism The absolute madman !
Thomas Roberts
Do these people look like serfs to you?
Sebastian Garcia
Yes they do.
Dominic Harris
>cultivated land expands 74% >But grain production increases only 11% that's pretty horrible performance, why are you bragging about it? Not only did they fail to increase productivity but it actually decreased according to your figures.
Owen Perez
In 1907, Russia was one of the most powerful countries in the world. Why do commies pretend that Russia was some kind of shithole before they took over?
Kevin Turner
Russia had extremely inefficient military which is why they got BTFO by the Germans and the Japanese. But at the same time, the USSR also had a shitty military until 1942 at least and they were getting routinely destroyed by tip top kek countries like Poland and Finland, so commies should shut the fuck up.
Jason Campbell
The Japanese thing was a genuine fuck-up but Germany was the most powerful military in the world at the time, and they also were fighting against Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans in addition to Germany. Russia was being attacked from all sides by powerful enemies, and the Ottomans sealed the Dardenelles so Russia couldn't trade with the outside world while this was going on. Under the circumstances, Russia still held up very well.
Thomas Martin
>cultivated land is used only to produce grain >no other use of cultivated land exists
Jordan Stewart
Tl;dr
Stop believing communist propaganda
Elijah Nguyen
>information that refutes my biases is propaganda LMAOing @ ur life
Jayden Campbell
imagiimagine unnironicaly bealiving this
Hunter Taylor
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Daniel Rodriguez
OP is a commie liar. Countries preformed 10x as well under capitalism
Carter Bennett
Borodin does not even have food substitutes for nourishment, two days ago he and his family ate two sickly piglets thrown out of the common farmyard. In the Borodin home there is unbelievable filth, dampness, and stench, mixed with the smell of tobacco. Borodin swears at the children: "The devils don't die, I wish I didn't have to look at you!" Having objectively investigated the condition of Borodin himself I ascertain that he is starting to slip into psychosis due to starvation, which can lead to his eating his own children.
My inspection of the series of families took place at the dinner hour, where they use those same food substitutes which they eat with hot water, but in several homes (2) on the table there were gnawed bones from a sickly horse. According to the explanations of the kolkhozniks, they prepare food in the following manner: they grind sunflower stems, flax and hemp seeds, chaff, dreg, colza, goosefoot, and dried potato peelings, and they bake flat cakes. Of the food substitutes listed above, the oily seeds are nutritious, which are healthy in combined foods since they contain vitamins, by themselves the vegetable oils do not contain vitamins and by not combining them with other food products of more equal nourishment and caloric value they are found to be toxic and will harm the body.
The homes are filthy, the area around the homes is polluted by human waste, by diarrhea caused by these substitutes. People walk around like shadows, silent, vacant; empty homes with boarded-up windows (about 500 homeowners have left their homes in Karpov village); one rarely sees an animal on the street (apparently the last ones have been eaten). In the entire village of 1000 yards I found only 2 chickens and a rooster. Occasionally one meets an emaciated dog. The impression is that Karpov village seems to be hit by anbiosis (hibernation, a freeze, falling asleep).The livestock is free to feed on thatched roofs of homes and barns.
So prosperous
Bentley Bell
This
Wyatt Hughes
grain is the main crop, and its a prestige crop. The Russian Empire grew a lot more potatoes for example. Grain production should be increasing proportionally in a developing country.
Colton Rivera
>Countries preformed 10x as well under capitalism lmao
Justin Wood
Not true Capitalism
Gabriel Bell
This quote is a Soviet government document from 1932 - this was before collectivization.
It points to examples of poverty and hunger in the countryside to argue for the creation of collective farms, precisely to address these problems.
After collectivization, life in villages improved substantially.
Connor Phillips
>leftypol shitpost
Ayden Lee
why dont you educate yourself thinking amerisharter
Landon Hughes
because Russia in 1907 wasnt the same Russia as in 1917/18
Jaxson Robinson
>1932 >before collectivization >explicitly mentions that these are kolkhozniks
How can you be this detached from reality? Do you force yourself to overlook basic facts, convincing yourself that what you know is true is also a lie so you can support the existence of an even bigger lie? Or did you simply not read the text, simply searching for keywords that trigger an automatic response like a Chinese room in human form?
Brayden Hernandez
only if they are lazy. most modern day communists have never had a real job
Ayden Perry
Just post your stupid meme chart
Noah Diaz
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John Brooks
>explicitly mentions that these are kolkhozniks Show me where in the text they mention this.
Blake Cox
What the fuck. How are most of those fucking related to capitalism? There are only a few there that I csn actively relate to greed.