An excellent article by blogger Andrey Michurin, breaking many liberal myths about the Soviet deficit. It is especially recommended to the younger generation, which the Soviet Union did not find.
"Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- a country that the whole world looked at with hope. A country in which the people defeated their capitalist-exploiters and took a deep breath, striding from socialism to communism and carrying the red banner of democracy to other, still capitalist-slave countries.
What do we hear everywhere?
There was nothing in the Soviet Union: no food in the store, no clothes, no furniture with electronics; everyone lived from hand to mouth, walked in rags for 20 years, and at the same time smiled and had fun, and all because the people were naive and gullible, and believed in the imminent arrival of a brighter future.
This is what many liberals now say on TV and other media, and this is the main idea being imposed on the Internet to the younger generation. Yes, and also "bloody Stalin" and "damned GeBnya" (KGB). Everything about them is bad, everything about them is terrible ...
But is it? Is it possible that a huge country, with gigantic deposits of resources and an immense territory (after all, 1/6 of the land), consisting of unusually different peoples, but held together by one history, could live hungry and cold, almost worse than all countries in the world?
Then how did the deficit, so exciting to everyone today, arise? We will try to find an answer to this question. I want to say right away that in this article I will only analyze the shortage of food, otherwise its size will exceed all possible expectations.
USSR 6 in 1.
When today, our respected liberal historians, consider the issue of the shortage of the times of the USSR, they mix all 70 years Soviet power into one heap. Such a small manipulation of consciousness. All this is done in order to demonize communism, the planned-mobilization economy and everything that it carried with it, while capitalism is partially justified - supposedly it is bad in many ways, but communism is even worse. This approach is fundamentally wrong, and in my opinion immoral, since people, in this case, are mistaken for idiots.
For us, in order to reveal the essence of the economic problems of the USSR, we need to understand what the great and mighty Soviet Union was like. The thing is, and this is precisely what is hushed up today, that in different years there were fundamentally different Soviet Unions. For clarity, it is enough to compare the USSR of Stalin and the USSR of Gorbachev, here you don’t even need to add anything. But if the Soviet Unions are different, then the economy (with all its problems) is also different in them, which means that the deficits in them are different. Therefore, we will move from smaller to larger, starting from the post-war times of Stalin's rule.
post-war years.
The terrible war for all of Russia is coming to an end. The war, which claimed, according to analysts, only those killed, 26.6 million people. Soviet citizens; a huge part of the country lies in ruins; people endured that which no other people at any time had a chance to experience.
Meanwhile...
The United States and England, not having had time to end the war, are already planning to attack Russia by July 1, 1945 (see Operation Unthinkable), reorganizing the captured Germans under their command and forcing the USSR, following the results of the Yalta Conference, to transfer their troops from west to east, for the attack, unwilling to surrender, Japan.
I will also give a list of other military plans for the attack, the so-called "allies", on the USSR. Attention to the years.
Plans for a US nuclear attack on the USSR:
Molotov V.M. 1977 “The development of virgin lands began prematurely. It was, of course, nonsense. In this size -adventure. From the very beginning, I was a supporter of the development of virgin lands on a limited scale, and not on such a huge scale that we were forced to invest huge amounts of money, incur colossal expenses, instead of raising what was already ready in the inhabited areas. But it is impossible otherwise. Here you have a million rubles, no more, so give them to virgin lands or already settled areas where there are opportunities? I offered to invest this money in our Non-Black Earth Region, and gradually raise the virgin soil. They scattered the funds - a little bit of this, and that, but there is nowhere to store the bread, it rots, there are no roads, it is impossible to take it out. But Khrushchev found an idea and rushes like a savras without a bridle! This idea does not definitely solve anything, it can be of help, but in limited limit. Be able to calculate, estimate, consult what people will say. No - come on, come on! He began to swing, bit off almost forty or forty-five million hectares of virgin land, but this is unbearable, absurd and unnecessary, and if there were fifteen or seventeen, it would probably come out more benefit. More sense.“
And starting from 1954, the “corn maker” (as Khrushchev jokingly called himself) began to introduce everywhere into Agriculture corn. Corn mania got into his head because of the success of growing this crop in the United States, where knowledge on its cultivation has been accumulated for years.
Newspapers, posters and other media mass media start talking about corn. In 1956, even, the magazine "Corn" begins to be published, completely devoted to this plant. Khrushchev tried with all his might to impose on the people the opinion that corn is what our country lacked.
As a result, having sown large parts of non-chernozem lands (where grain was previously grown) with corn, it began to produce poor harvests, bread and flour began to rise in price (and disappear from sale). And it had to happen that the corn epic intersected with the venture of virgin lands. By 1963, the development of virgin lands had failed (the developed soils were depleted, dust storms arose), the country received less grain, bread disappeared from sale.
For the first time in its history, the USSR was forced to buy grain abroad. Beginning in 1963, the Soviet Union will constantly increase grain imports.
This is just about the grain. In 1957, Khrushchev put forward the slogan: “to overtake the USA in per capita meat, milk and butter production in three or four years”. Justifying this by saying: “If we catch up with the USA, then we will launch the strongest torpedo under the capitalist foundations” (For example, I don’t understand how - Ed.).
With this slogan, he mutilated the whole meaning of the planned economy. The production of products not due to the growth of the needs of the population is the greatest madness and blasphemy in relation to the planned-mobilization economy, and in fact is the beginning of a market economy, where the production of goods is not tied to needs.
“Every system has a leading indicator to which the system strives. In a market economy, this is profit maximization; in a planned economy, it is the fulfillment of a planned target. And now the fulfillment of the planned task has turned into a fetish - at any cost.
A.I. Belchuk -doc. economical Sciences.
It was a kind of chasing game in which we are always chasing. We had to lead the chase, sort of, on the main food products, in which we lagged behind the United States (see picture).
An excerpt from Margaret Thatcher's speech. Houston, 11. 1991:
“The Soviet Union is a country that posed a serious threat to the Western world. I'm not talking about military threat. She, in fact, was not. Our countries are fairly well armed, including nuclear weapons. I mean the economic threat. Thanks to a planned policy and a peculiar combination of moral and material incentives, the Soviet Union managed to achieve high economic indicators. The percentage of growth in the gross national product was approximately twice as high as in our countries. Considering the huge Natural resources USSR, then with the rational management of the economy, the Soviet Union had very real opportunities to oust us from world markets. Therefore, we have always taken actions aimed at weakening the economy of the Soviet Union and creating internal difficulties for it.
Here short review dedicated to the topic food shortage in the USSR, limited by the scope of the article. As you can see, over the years, the country has faced various economic problems and tried to solve them to the best of my ability. Sometimes the decisions were successful, sometimes not. Therefore, each reader will have to decide for himself whether to believe the stories of the liberals that the planned economy is to blame for all the troubles (which, by the way, the Westerners are still afraid of) or not.
“At first I sat and thought: Why was it necessary to demonize the planned economy? And then I understand that, after all, it is probably because now we have been forced to return to the basics of planning for several years now. We plan the state budget not for a year, but for three years. We are talking about the need for a mobilization-modernization economy, because without a qualitative breakthrough we will not get out of the quagmire into which the country is sinking. And then I understand that the shooting at the planned economy is an attempt to destroy the chance for the revival of the country./S.N. Baburin is the rector of RGTEU."
To be honest, I've been so fed up lately with talk about how "everything was good in the Soviet Union" that I decided to sketch just a few points with my own eyes. I lived in the USSR, at the time of the collapse of the Union I was in my third year, in the USSR I already went to the elections to vote and got myself work book. He graduated from school and entered the institute (Moscow Mining) in 1989, so the main points in the text below are naturally related to the issues of choosing a profession, finding a job, and settling in life.
So, remember, young people - with all this in the USSR there were complete seams. Let's even lower the picturesque empty shelves of shops and the absence of grub, and discuss these fundamental things that are not talked about much. Let's go through the points.
1. The USSR was a country of hellish inequality.
I am surprised that today the fans of the scoop are trumpeting everywhere about the stratification in the current society (really a serious problem that needs to be addressed) as if everyone "were equal" under the scoop. This is the most utter nonsense imaginable.
The USSR was an extremely stratified and, in fact, a caste society. If a society was built on the wreckage of a scoop, where there is a stratification, but according to at least there are mechanisms for how to break free, get on your feet, earn yourself a normal future, take place, then with the scoop you completely depended on who your dad was. "Their children go crazy because they have nothing more to want" Grebenshchikov and Shevchuk's "Major Boys" are just a drop in the ocean of the folklore that existed in the USSR on the topic "the general has his own son."
Locations in best universities(and correspondingly, best job subsequently) were distributed in advance among the sons and daughters of the "thieves". Ordinary people in this regard did not shine at all. And I personally was not in the worst position, my dad in the 80s worked as a specialist in the Mintyazhmash of the USSR. However, even I did not have any real prospects for a prestigious study or work - everything was planned in advance for nomenklatura children.
For narrow circle nomenklatura in the country really was built a real communism. They constantly traveled abroad. They were treated in special hospitals and examined in special polyclinics. They bought goods in special distributors and special stores. Specialists functioned for them, who sewed exclusive clothes for them. Ordinary people were strictly denied access to all these bins - namely, there they could get goods and services of acceptable quality. The nomenklatura was released from the queues for the purchase of housing, cars, and moreover, they were supposed to do all this out of the queue. About the distribution of places in prestigious universities and prestigious work, I have already said above.
In fact, there was a parallel currency for the nomenclature in the country - "Vneshposyltorg checks", which could be purchased in special stores with a wide range of imported ones (let's call a spade a spade, stsuko - Western) products and goods. Ordinary citizens of the USSR were denied access to these stores. This is what the "real rubles" looked like, which ordinary people in life could not get:
The hatred of the rest of the country for the narrow caste of "thieves" reached such proportions that in the late 1980s it was not difficult for Boris Yeltsin to gain popularity in the fight against privileges, which, in general, helped him to be elected. Well, the lines I quoted above from the texts of famous rock musicians made it possible to assess the scale of the phenomenon.
In general, it can be argued that if you did not belong to a narrow caste of a privileged nomenklatura and you were not lucky enough to be born in a nomenklatura family, then your whole future Soviet life was a rather dull and hopeless black-and-white film "first they will save up for a refrigerator, then - on TV ... "(c)" Moscow does not believe in tears, "and then, when everything was bought on the list, it's time for the next world.
2. Normal work in the USSR = hell.
For starters, in the USSR there was a vicious circle rule "no job = you will not get a residence permit, no residence permit = you will not get a job", which in fact completely cut off people who fell out of the Soviet career mill from the opportunity to get a normal job somewhere later in life. That's all, once fell out of this squirrel wheel - and damn you for life, you will work like Tsoi as a fireman in the boiler room (do you think he just worked there out of whim ??).
That is, right now, young people from the provinces are leaving everything, coming to Moscow or another large city, finding cheap housing here and starting to look for work. IN THE USSR? Forget it. you couldn't get normal work without a residence permit. You could get a residence permit only if you have major city one of the relatives lived. Yes, they brought to Moscow certain number non-resident workers "on the limit", but it was limited quantity and there was no free movement of labor as such.
In the USSR, there was such a universal disgusting mechanism as "characteristic". When applying for any job, it was demanded of you, and there were a lot of reasons to get some kind of record there that excluded a normal career for you. From “didn’t give the boss” to “relatives lived in the occupied territories in 1941-1945” (such a column invariably appeared in Soviet lens certificates) - anything could ruin your characterization forever, and you would never get anywhere in your life again. It is now that you send your resume, go through an interview, get a job, and if you work well, then you are further promoted, etc. It was not so in the USSR - the notorious "characteristic" was a powerful barrier to finding a job, at least for normal, living people, especially those who did not like the Soviet regime and could get caught somewhere.
In general, those who did not belong to the "nomenklatura caste" (see paragraph 1) could count on a maximum of work with a salary of up to 150 rubles a month during their life. Apart from food and basic clothing, this money could not afford nothing. From the word at all.
In addition, in universities there was such a vile thing as "distribution". After graduation, you were forcibly sent for several years to work in your specialty in some "territory Far North and areas equated to them, "and nothing could be done about it. Quit and refuse - you will get a hell of a testimonial and a white ticket for life. Then you will not get a normal job.
In addition, many cities, including very large ones (for example, Sverdlovsk-Yekaterinburg or Nizhny Novgorod-Gorky), were closed. This meant that, in fact, you could not go anywhere from there without permission, even to Moscow. The youth in closed cities there were no prospects for mobility at all. And so lived a good half of the population of the country.
3. Make money by entrepreneurship or freelancing? Yes, you are crazy.
Nevertheless, in the USSR there existed (and felt great) a huge number of speculators and shadow entrepreneurs ("guild members") who obviously spat on Soviet laws and felt good about themselves. This was possible due to the total corruption of the power structures that protected them and received an appropriate kickback for this. The tip of this iceberg, probably, can be considered Brezhnev's Interior Minister Shchelokov, who immediately after Brezhnev's death became a defendant in the largest case of total corruption in the Interior Ministry and was removed from all posts.
The second concert of the group took place on January 28, 1984 at school No. 30 in Moscow. Together with Bravo, the concert was attended by: Sounds of Mu (group debut), Viktor Tsoi, Sergey Ryzhenko, experimental duet Ratskevich & Shumov. The concert on March 18, 1984 at the Mosenergotekhprom cultural center ended in a scandal. The organizers and participants of the illegal concert were detained by the police and forced to write explanations, since holding underground concerts for money was considered illegal business. Zhanna Aguzarova spent several months under investigation for forging documents (her passport was discharged in the name of "Yvonne Anders", under which she performed) and was forced to leave Moscow due to lack of registration"
(This is about Bravo and Aguzarova.)
4. Own housing in the USSR = hell.
In general, this was the hardest problem for the younger generation (it was not for nothing that Gorbachev, having come to power, began to promise "everyone Soviet family a separate apartment by the year 2000" as a key populist slogan). Housing queues dragged on for decades and were also the subject of hellish folklore, it was really impossible to get an apartment. In fact, you were waiting for the prospect of living in a cramped apartment with your parents until the end of your life. living space was 15.7 square meters per person in 1990 - only under Yeltsin did it grow to more than 19 square meters in 2000 ().Cramped living conditions were one of the most difficult problems Soviet man- despite the fact that the standard of housing provision in Western countries has long been tens of square meters per person.
5. Social benefits? Forget it.
You must have heard a lot about "free Soviet medicine" and "free education", but you must remember that all of this was of exceptionally bad quality. Access to the best hospitals, polyclinics, universities was open only to the nomenklatura, for a normal person it was all closed, and only supernumerary institutions with the appropriate quality of services remained. I still remember Soviet medicine with a shudder; in the 1990s, he was incredibly surprised to see that in our country there can be not only scruffy medical facilities with boorish martinet staff and antediluvian equipment, but thanks to reforms, high-quality modern medicine with helpful staff has appeared. Yes, it is not available to everyone, and there is something to work on. However, in Soviet times, this was not the case at all.
Further, beautiful clothes, music, films - none of this happened at all. Everyone wore uniform gray and black clothes. The best Soviet in the world light industry- it was SOMETHING. Uncomfortable, badly sewn, ugly - these are the mildest epithets that can describe the devilry that she produced. To whom parents brought some bright element of clothing from Hungary or the GDR - caused incredible envy at school / university.
Western films and music in general were banned. Yes, under Gorbachev, thank God, all this was weakened, but before him it was quite possible for all this, if not to sit down, then at least get an entry in the "characteristics" for life, after which you could only be a stoker.
Restaurants, cafes? Sit with Wi-Fi in a coffee shop with a cup of frappuccino? Forget it. On ordinary incomes, people could not afford any restaurants and cafes - except that very occasionally on some kind of holiday. And then, the attendants there were so corrupted by their "exclusivity" that ordinary citizens were quickly distinguished and frankly rude to them, turning all these holidays into something extremely unpleasant (this is probably most clearly expressed in the scene in the Astoria restaurant in the film " The meeting place cannot be changed", where Sharapov, waiting for Fox, drinks coffee and does not order anything else, and then the bartender begins to be frankly rude to him, realizing that he has no money). And the food was hellishly tasteless ("Is it really possible to feed deliciously in a restaurant" (c) "Moscow does not believe in tears" = pure truth).
The attendants in the USSR were generally pzdts pzdts pzdts. "There are many of you, but I am alone" - the classic phrase of the Soviet barmaid - emphasized the permanent superiority of the one who distributes the scarce resource over any servants in line here. "Without experience in Soviet trade/services" - this line in job advertisements that appeared massively in the early 90s, very accurately reflects the everyday humiliation and rudeness that an ordinary Soviet person had to face on a daily basis in many collision situations with the Soviet service sector.
6. Travel around the world = fuck.
Are you crazy about what to travel around the world. This was available only to the nomenklatura and its children. Ordinary citizens were strictly prohibited from traveling abroad; in order to get into any country of the socialist camp (the only one in fact relatively massively accessible "near abroad"), one had to pass a bunch of checks for "reliability" and so on. We all looked at the map of the world with undisguised bitterness, realizing that we would never see it all (fortunately, life turned out differently - thanks, Boris Nikolaevich).
7. Nothing is allowed, everything must be asked for permission.
The nasty feature of the USSR was that the authorities there tried to control literally your every action. Well, that is, for example, it was impossible to use a photocopier and make a photocopy of even one piece of paper without the permission of the KGB. People were constantly being forced to take part in party political life: party meetings, the Komsomol, the trade union committee, the local committee. Refuse - fuck you in the characteristic "non-participation in public life"(with subsequent problems). "You reduce our indicators with your divorces" (c) "Ivan Vasilyevich is changing his profession" - this is just about how the state and the "public" that served it constantly poked its nose into human life, including including personal ones. You don't subscribe to the Pravda newspaper? How so! You don't give a shit about it. And with what money did you buy yourself [insert as appropriate] - well, explain yourself to the public? What if it's "unearned income"!
Regarding, for example, communications and the Internet, I generally keep quiet - I just have a bad idea that the Internet would have been allowed in the USSR, then this whole structure would have been covered with a big ... copper basin. That is, there were two options: either we would go along the path North Korea and the Internet would not have existed in the country until now, or it would have been allowed, and then the USSR would have ceased to exist, well, not in 1991, but maybe a few years later.
8. What, then, do people complain about in the end? ...
There are three main types of people who complain:
- Those who in Soviet times belonged to the "highest caste" and then lost a lot of income, as they turned out to be uncompetitive in the new system;
- Those who were satisfied with a vegetable existence for 80-150 rubles and "if only there was no war";
- All sorts of scum who deliberately invent myths about the alleged "advantages" of the scoop in their political purposes(including out of hatred for the modern civilized world).
9. But what about "the millions who died in the 90s from the reforms"?...
This is all just the most incredible nonsense that the apologists of the scoop propagate all the time. The reforms were difficult, but the increase in mortality in the USSR began a long time ago, even under Khrushchev-Brezhnev, and in the 90s it just ... stopped. See official statistics, figures. Mortality per 1000 population:
- 1960 - 7.4 people;
- 1970 - 8.7 people;
- 1980 - 11.0 people;
- 1991 - 11.4 people ( almost doubling in 30 years!!! );
- 1994 - indeed, the peak of this past trend - 15.7 people;
- However, since 1995 there has been a decline. The reforms reversed the trend.
UPD. Here are some
All post-Soviet power rests on distortion historical truth about the USSR.
THE LEADING ROLE IN THE DISTORTION OF THE HISTORICAL TRUTH ABOUT THE USSR BELONG TO THE SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE AND THE MEDIA. UNFORTUNATELY, OUR INTELLIGENTIA SHOWED ITS HOSTILITY TO RUSSIA ALMOST FROM BIRTH. POSSIBLY BECAUSE ITS BASIS WERE NON-RUSSIAN PEOPLE WHO DID NOT UNDERSTAND AND DID NOT LOVE RUSSIA.
From generation to generation, an intelligentsia hostile to Russia was nurtured. The only exception was the Stalin era in the period from 1934 to 1953, but even then many of its representatives simply went underground.
Our pro-Western intelligentsia also spat on the Motherland 100 years ago, just as it has spat on the Soviet Union for 30 years and Stalin's time for more than 60 years. The Russian writer, publicist and philosopher V. V. Rozanov wrote back in 1912: “A Frenchman has -“ beautiful France”, the British - “Old England”, the Germans - “our old Fritz”. Only the last Russian gymnasium and university - "damned Russia."
During Gorbachev's perestroika, scientists were especially vicious: Zaslavskaya, Agangebyan, Shmelev, Bunich, Yuri Afanasyev, Gavriil Popov, and others. At congresses, they came out one after another and cursed the Soviet Union, its past and present. Their speeches had nothing to do with the truth, but were an unprecedented slander against the USSR.
In order to collapse the USSR and the Warsaw Pact, the most different tricks. First of all, the historical truth was distorted, and then, on the basis of falsified information, a massive manipulation of the consciousness of citizens was carried out.
For these purposes, for example, the Non-Aggression Treaty concluded between the USSR and Germany in 1939 was used (liberals call it the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact). Any educated person knows that the treaty allowed us to win the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945, since it was at this time that new types of weapons were designed and put into mass production, including tanks and aircraft.
They shouted hysterically about the Katyn case. Its essence is that in 1941 the Germans near Smolensk shot 12,000 captured Polish officers in the same way that they shot tens of thousands of captured Soviet officers throughout the war.
But in 1943, in order to turn the Poles and other peoples of Europe against the USSR, the Goebbels department suddenly started talking about the Russians shooting the captured Polish officers in 1940.
Immediately after the liberation by the Red Army troops Smolensk region from the Nazi invaders, in 1944, a commission was created, which confirmed that the captured Poles were shot by the Nazis. Whole western world agreed with this, despite the fact that, like Germany, he was interested in aggravating relations between Russians and Poles. I agreed, because the facts indicated by the commission were too convincing.
But in the 1980s, the ultra-liberal circles of the USSR, personally A. N. Yakovlev, voiced the fake fabricated by Goebbels to the whole world, and Russia, through the efforts of traitors, pleaded guilty to the execution of Polish officers. The USSR was discredited, both in the face of the peoples of the Western countries, in a way that was especially destructive for the Soviet state, in the gases of its own people.
In the annotation to his book “Anti-Russian meanness”, Yuri Mukhin wrote that this provocation was reanimated in order to deprive Russia of allies and push countries of Eastern Europe in NATO. Today, this provocation dominates Russia, and in Gorbachev's time it caused hatred for the USSR among Poles, other peoples of Europe and the world.
Of course, the USSR did not shoot captured Polish officers. We could be judged and sentenced to highest measure punishment of individual war criminals, but never shot ordinary prisoners: German, Italian, Romanian, Hungarian, Finnish and armies of other countries and peoples who attacked us in 1941, and also did not shoot captured Poles in 1940. This is proved by the volumes of files left by the 1944 commission.
In general, the USSR treated the Poles very tolerantly. For example, during the war, the Soviet government armed the Poles who wished to fight Nazi Germany. But the Poles armed by us declared that they wanted to fight the Germans not in the Red Army, but on the side of our allies, that is, the armies of England and the USA. Soviet government the Poles were released and helped to get to the allied armies. True, the allied armies did not spare them and threw them to the slaughter. The Poles also fought with the Red Army of the Soviet Union against the troops of Germany and its allies.
It is unfortunate that the majority of Russian people in their assessment of political and historical events, cultural and technical achievements is ready to believe the most vicious Russophobes.
The admiration of the Russian elite for the West in his immortal comedy in verse "Woe from Wit" was written by the great Russian writer, diplomat and military man Alexander Sergeevich Griboyedov, whose murder was prepared by the British special services in Tehran for his political views and actions. His murder was prepared by foreigners in the same way as they prepared the murders of A. S. Pushkin, M. Yu. Lermontov, S. A. Yesenin, N. M. Rubtsov. They also killed Igor Talkov after he began to deal with the events taking place in Russia and give a well-deserved assessment of the democrats.
But, in spite of everything, faith in the West and admiration for the West continue at the present time. This blind faith in the West turns the victorious people into penitent, incapable of anything great sinners. An international conspiracy against the USSR and Russia, implemented in the unleashed by the West " cold war”, put the USSR in a state of constantly making excuses, without the fault of the guilty party.
It is not customary to talk about the role of the media in the black deed of the destruction of the USSR, while with the beginning of perestroika, our domestic media began to turn into short term were turned into shock army US in the Cold War against the Soviet Union.
The media "bathed in money", receiving them both from the state budget of the USSR, and, one might say, from the US state budget (many people probably still receive it at the present time). Main Researcher Institute for Socio-Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor, Sergey Georgievich Kara-Murza, recalls the following about the media of that time: to a psychophysiological study of the entire population of the USSR. In his opinion, in personal file each person should be stamped: “weak” or “strong”, so that only the strong are allowed to power.
I wrote a very correct response article about this manifesto. And he began to go to the editorial offices to his own friends with a request to publish this text. Everyone said that the article was good, it should be printed, but no one printed it. That is, by this time, when the doctrine of reforms was already being put forward, there was no opportunity for controversy. And this is one of the conditions for manipulating the consciousness of the people. To be enchanted by change. For a long time, of course, this could not go on, but even this time was enough for something to happen that we now know perfectly well.
What Amosov called for, the Nazis called for. Liberals praised him all over the country, wrote about what a wonderful surgeon he was, doing operations for ten hours in a row, from which his cervical vertebrae even fused. Many admired Amosov. But much later, the article “Running from a heart attack or to a heart attack?” appeared. Many of his admirers thought. Later it became clear that Amosov was bringing the theory under the seizure of power by the liberals and the transformation into slaves of the majority of representatives of the Russian nation, among which, by liberal standards, there are many “weak” people.
The media presented their pages to everyone who worked for the destruction of the USSR. As a force that brought huge contribution in the destruction of the Soviet Union characterizes the media head of the department of periodicals in the Moscow state university, ex-Minister of Press of the USSR Mikhail Fedorovich Nenashev, who said: “In fact, the media can do a lot. I proceed from the fact that I have seen such journalism, such media. I argue that of the three stages that our journalism has gone through over the past 25 years, the stage of perestroika - in 1985-1991 - was the stage when journalism and the media really were the “fourth estate”.
In essence, they were also the main instrument of perestroika. Indeed, in these years, the trust in the media was enormous. There was a euphoria of glasnost… Then the media formed even the political elite, and today we say that they are more often in the service of the political elite. Democrats of the new wave Anatoly Sobchak, Gavriil Popov, Yuri Afanasiev, and Andrei Sakharov, as one of the most famous democrats of that time, were essentially created by the perestroika media. They were created by the media. This is how the media were integrated into the political movement and led this movement.”
Nenashev confirms that this political movement led to the disintegration of the country. It should be noted that through the media, the US special services led the political movements in the USSR, promoting people who hate the USSR and Russia to the ranks of the political elite, who work to destroy the Soviet Union not only for generous rewards, but also in connection with pathological hatred of Russian civilization.
The hosts of the television program "Vzglyad": Lyubimov, Zakharov, Listyev, Mukusev even became deputies. Kurkova and Nevzorov became deputies, as well as newsmen from Izvestia: Korotich, Yakovlev, Laptev and other media representatives. That's who destroyed our country. And everyone is trying to convince us that the USSR collapsed on its own.
And it was possible to save the USSR even in 1991. Many participants of those events speak about it. In particular, the former Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, former airborne commander, the youngest general of the USSR, Colonel-General Achalov Vladislav Alekseevich.
He confirmed that Marshal Yazov asked his forgiveness and at the same time said: "Excuse me, the old fool, for dragging you into these affairs." He meant 1991, the State Emergency Committee. Achalov answered Yazov: “You don’t apologize for that, Dmitry Timofeevich ... Then you should have sat in an armchair, rolled into a corner, and before falling asleep, say: “Comrade Achalov, act!” I had 7 airborne divisions at that moment! But... he didn't say.
At 45, Achalov was expelled from the army and retired for standing up for the Soviet Union. V. I. Ilyukhin also spoke about the possibility of preserving the USSR in 1991, who said: “We could have saved the Soviet Union even then! In November 1991, the fatal inevitability of his collapse was not! Even later, after the Belovezhskaya Accords, the army and organs remained on the side of Gorbachev state security. If this man wanted to save the USSR, he could well do it. For a period, no doubt. Apart from the Baltics, not a single people of other republics wanted to leave the Union. In Ukraine, the question at the referendum was raised incorrectly: “Do you want to live in independent Ukraine? In March, more than 70 percent of the population voted for the preservation of the USSR. Gorbachev had support! Yeltsin was constantly afraid of arrest after Belovezhye.
The events that took place during the almost seven years of M. S. Gorbachev's rule completely deny the liberals' claims that the USSR allegedly collapsed on its own. The USSR destroyed those forces that sought to destroy Russia and the Russian nation a thousand years ago. For the last thousand years, they have tried to realize the desire to destroy Russia, and after they succeeded in February 1917, they replaced Russian Empire USSR. I think that this does not raise doubts in every sane person, regardless of his political views and from the fact that he speaks for one purpose or another.
By the way, the above statements of people, many of whom were in the highest echelons of power, can be called a confession. Most of them said what was written in this chapter at a very advanced age, when a person becomes frank, like a soldier before a mortal battle.
At present, despite abrupt change in the assessment of individual periods of the history of the USSR, in general, a truthful assessment is still far away and it is distorted no less actively than before. None of the journals of today's Russia known to me will print a text positively evaluating the Soviet socialist system. It would seem that, unfortunately, there is no official state censorship, but the censors have remained, and they monitor the materials submitted for publication in newspapers, magazines and for broadcast on television much stricter than the censorship of the Soviet era and they impose precisely liberal, pro-Western values on society , including a look at the history of the USSR and the pre-revolutionary Russian Empire.
And only separate, rare books that tell the truth about life in the USSR, for example, S. G. Kara-Murza, S. N. Semanov, V. I. Kardashov, M. P. Lobanov, Yu. I. Mukhina, V. S. Bushin and others less famous authors are still being published. Often they are published for the money of the authors and at a loss to the authors. But thanks to this asceticism, liberals in Russia cannot completely master the minds of people, tear and throw Russia into primitive society that does not create either material or spiritual values.
Thanks to them, some citizens came to their senses and understood what Western democracy is. Now they speak fondly of the quiet Brezhnev era. However, many of them still do not associate this calmness with the socialist socio-political system. Even some of those who destroyed the USSR remember him with a kind word. For example, Stanislav Sergeevich Govorukhin said the following about life in the USSR: “People were different ... more honest, oddly enough, more decent, there was no current cynicism and the pursuit of money. The art was different, everything was different... The streets were different: then you could walk on them calmly, but today bandits walk along them, and law-abiding citizens sit behind bars and steel doors.
In the Soviet Union there was education, science, there was a school. Now there is none of this, but there is some kind of monkeying from the West - either from America, or from England, the devil knows where they ripped it all off from! These exams?! There is nothing to even talk about science! Formerly a man dreamed of being an engineer, an agronomist, a biologist, a teacher, a scientist... and now women want to be models, prostitutes or designers, at worst, what the hell, in my opinion!..». But Govorukhin remained true to himself; he does not understand, it is strange why people in the USSR were more honest and decent.
Many today talk about the greatness of a power called the USSR, which other countries respected and feared at the same time. About the fact that they lived quietly without drug addiction and, although they drank, there was no mass alcoholism. About our mighty armed forces, advanced industry, highest culture. But few people spoke about the highest standard of living of the peoples of the USSR.
Many did not understand the main thing - property in the USSR was public and the profit it brought was distributed among all members of society without exception. “Private property in today's Russia, being one of the main forms of property, does not lead to any improvement in the life of the people, but is only a tool for enriching the elites,” many educated citizens of our country believe.
In relation to public property, one can judge whether this is our person or a pro-Western one. For example, M. F. Nenashev, either out of ignorance or long-standing hostility to Soviet power, denies the existence of public property in the USSR, but tries to prove its absence by purely liberal methods. He said: “What was the ideology of socialism based on? On public property, which in fact was not public property, otherwise the people would not have allowed this predatory privatization to be carried out.
And I must say that if it were not for the Nenasheva, who led the press and the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, then the people would know everything about property and Russian socialism. But the Nenashevs hid everything from the people, and even educated people these issues were not understood. They published millions of copies and invited the people to read the anti-Soviet and anti-Russian works of Sorokin, Granin, Nabokov and similar writers.
Nenashev nevertheless called privatization predatory, but did not say who was robbed during privatization? I think he understands that they robbed the people, since the privatized property belonged to the people. Thanks to this property, the people received free medical service, including the most expensive operations, almost free places in kindergartens and nurseries, free of charge all types of education, from school to graduate school, including training in sports, music, dance, aircraft modeling and other types of sections and circles, all types of housing, in most cases new, comfortable and modern.
The state paid stipends to students and graduate students and assumed the costs not only for education, but also those associated with the maintenance and provision of all necessary corresponding scientific laboratories used by graduate and undergraduate students. In addition, in the USSR there was no collection of most of the taxes available in the countries of the world, and the available taxes were insignificant compared to taxes in Western countries and the level of income of a Soviet citizen.
Thanks to public ownership, the USSR also had the lowest prices in the world, incomparably low prices per utilities, travel in urban and intercity transport, including air transport, for children's goods, basic foodstuffs, vouchers to rest homes and sanatoriums, basic necessities and whole line other benefits received from public consumption funds, as well as services established by the state.
In the USSR, all prices and services were set by the state, and on each item sold, on which the price could be stamped, the price was stamped, and on each package of other goods the price was indicated. This share of profit, added to wages, ensured a high standard of living for Soviet people. At the beginning of the 1980s, a citizen of the USSR consumed an average of 98.3 g of protein (USA - 100.4), that is, almost the same as the citizens of the rich country peace. dairy products Soviet people consumed more than Americans, namely: 341 kg per year per person, while Americans - 260 kg.
The standard of living in the USSR was as high as it can be for the peoples of the country who have survived three years in 45 years. major wars with the strongest enemies who sought to exterminate us. The standard of living of citizens of the USSR was constantly increasing, and in the West they understood that there was very little time left when the standard of living of the USSR would outstrip the whole world.
Since the rejection of socialism, the standard of living of the majority of citizens of Russia and the former republics of the USSR cannot increase even theoretically: an increase in wages or pensions immediately leads to an increase in prices that are completely inconsistent with social necessary costs labor required to produce a particular product or service. The increase in prices even outstrips the increase in income. Before Gorbachev came to power, citizens of the USSR did not know at all what inflation was. The purchasing power of the ruble remained at the same level for decades.
After the collapse of the USSR, many understood this. But, apparently, not all. Compare the standard of living of citizens of the USSR with citizens of the West in terms of wages- means to manipulate the facts, that is, to engage in falsification. It is necessary to take into account the income of a Soviet citizen from owning a part of public property and the lack of spending by a Soviet citizen, which in Western and other capitalist countries is in fact mandatory and constitutes the bulk of the expenses of citizens of these countries. Currently, most of these expenses have become mandatory in Russia.
All post-Soviet power rests on the distortion of the historical truth about the USSR. That is why, to the delight of the West, television screens have been filled with anti-Soviet films and programs for decades.
This post is a complete dupe...because the USSR was not a glamorous country. And I write for myself. Something about Putin's RF - with its "ours" and "bears" specifically got me. To horror and nausea.
This is not a circle of modellers-constructors!
These are Soviet children training on models to attack skyscrapers in America.
On September 1, a terrible misfortune came to the house of every Soviet person. Trouble said: "Study, study and study!"
Ugly houses, in the shadow of which the miserable life of the townspeople passed.
Poor life inside.
These are not Soviet polar explorers, no!
It is the GULAG prisoners who are forced to pretend joy in connection with the anniversary of Blank-Ulyanov.
Was the USSR the most reading country in the world? No matter how!
If these young people don't learn by heart to tomorrow Brezhnev's book "Tselina", they will be expelled from the institute and sent to BAM.
Magazines with erotica, scanwords and stories from the life of pop, film and television stars were not published - and the unfortunate Soviet people sadly read books in transport, often without even pictures!
Here it is, the predatory grin of Soviet militarism!
Probably, the communists in Moscow would like to see such robots Ukrainian people, not completely exterminated by the famine!
"How many years should the dissident Sharansky be given?" "four!" - answer the first-graders fooled by Soviet propaganda.
Such close to every Russian words " United Russia"The blasphemous communists didn't like it. Only the Soviet one!
Exhausted people using primitive technology overwork they extract minerals from underground - so that the secretaries of city committees and regional committees of the CPSU spend millions of dollars in Biarritz, Courchevel and Nice!
Here is another future occupier of Afghanistan and a KGB snitch!
Soviet workers pretend to know algebra! In fact, the worker could only count up to three sixty-two.
This is a cardboard scenery of a city in the North. Behind the shields with painted houses are the barracks of the camps.
Preparing for war was all the Soviet youth needed. And she was tormented by hiking and sports. And they did not release "Klinskoe"!
Allegedly, the workers allegedly rejoice at the supposedly early fulfillment of the alleged plan.
There is no sex in the USSR! Didn't you know - it was in Posner's program.
There were no mortgages in the USSR. Therefore, people lived in barracks and dugouts. And these houses were built for visibility. Then they were demolished - and dugouts were dug out in their place.
A terrible picture from the Soviet hell.
The communists spoke demagogically that everyone should be able to defend the Motherland with arms in hand. Only later did we learn that the homeland must be defended by contract soldiers.
Children (!) were accustomed to Labor! Violating their right to sniff glue in basements or study the Word of God in CMO classes!
And in good time, under Yeltsin and Putin, you, a beautiful girl, can become a prostitute, and not live a painful gray soviet life!
The totalitarianism of the USSR was manifested in the fact that totally all children were forced to go to school.
Soviet engineers smoke nervously. Still - they lagged behind the civilized world for a hundred years. But, fortunately, their documents are already in the OVIR - and soon they will join happy family Western peoples.
Soviet unfortunate machines. incompetent Soviet leaders For some reason, they believed that the presence of their own domestic auto industry is a sign of a highly developed industrial state.
Until the Soviet chocolate factories were privatized or bought by Western companies, only soy bars were made there.
Soviet trucks exclusively for the transport of "cargo 200".
The gray faces of Soviet slaves - and compare them with the inspired faces of the participants in the Dom-2 program and other youth programs of Russian TV channels!
Disfigured childhood.
Why make cars in your own country - when you could buy them in Germany?
Models of rockets in which 28 (or 48) remaining unknown suicide cosmonauts died just before Gagarin.
Kill "em all! Kill everyone!" - shouts Soviet officer soldier. And he will kill. From Belgrade to Baghdad.
As the literary critic Chudakova correctly noted, the USSR was the country of the victorious Ham. Here he stands - this is a cattle who did not read Solzhenitsyn!
The name of Taras Shevchenko in Ukraine under the Soviet yoke was banned, universities were closed, for Ukrainian language sent to Siberia - that's where the longing comes from in the eyes of a lad and a pair of maidens.
In the dark, bloody, terrible time of Soviet power, black monsters came at night and shot sleeping people. Liberal human rights activists have calculated that a total of 1007899402346639814 people were shot, not counting women and children. The executions were carried out personally by Stalin.
In Soviet times (the so-called Scoop) there was a total shortage of everything and everything. There wasn't even meat. It wasn’t at all, so the people of that generation first tried meat only after Gaidar saved the country from the final famine.
There were no apartments either, they all appeared at once only in 1991, and before that 99.99999999999999999% of the citizens of the USSR lived under bridges or in the rusty hulls of decommissioned warships.
When the tape recorder was shown to Soviet citizens, they fled in superstitious horror in front of the music box, because there were no electronics in the USSR, except for a radio frying pan and primitive televisions. And until 1991, televisions were cute, lamp-shaped, with a small lens instead of a screen, one per 1000 families, only collective farms and the Politburo were shown according to a single program. There was no (terrible to say!) mobile phones and PC.
While in the prosperous progressive West, every schoolchild already in the 70s went with a smartphone and cut into HalfLife, oppressed and devoid of meat, rickety Soviet children vegetated in stone wells rolling wooden toys around a dirty yard.
In the USSR, it was almost impossible to buy a personal car. Own car was a huge, inaccessible luxury, Soviet cars they were all of terrible quality, small, ridiculous, and they were not produced at all, almost no one had them, so until 1991 only trucks, buses and tanks drove along half-empty roads. But in the USA, every homeless person had a Chevrolet Impala and a Cadillac Eldorado. And in general, there are no homeless people in the USA, they all have villas on the ocean and with a pool in the yard, as they showed in American cinema and said on Radio Liberty, which means it's true.
Unfortunate Soviet citizens (everything, we remember everything!) Under pain of criminal punishment, they were forced to have a paid job, providing it in abundance, thereby violating the right of everyone free man become a homeless person and die in the garbage. And they were also not allowed into Paris and Istanbul, forcing them to be content with free movement on a miserable sixth of the land.
Free medicine and free education were disgusting and none at all, so Soviet people were constantly sick and died in childhood from chickenpox, and those who miraculously survived did not know how to read and write and are still convinced that the earth is flat.
When Hitler attacked the USSR, then at first everything soviet soldiers surrendered, and then filled up with their corpses German troops, so there was no victory, but a terrible shame. The Germans valiantly and bravely lost the war they started, and the USSR vilely and shamefully won, and in general it was by accident. And it was not Stalin who won, but the Soviet people. Stalin only carried out repressions and executions personally without the participation of Soviet people, and the victory was won by the people without the participation of Stalin.
bloody Soviet Empire terribly oppressed the occupied territories of the adjacent republics, which, under fear of immediate destruction with sobs and cries, allegedly voluntarily joined the Empire, on the most unfavorable, barbaric conditions. The Red Imperials immediately repressed 80% of the population of the annexed occupied republics, destroyed their schools, factories and burned libraries, and the residents themselves were forbidden to communicate in their native language, forcing them to speak and even think in Russian.
And these republics gave everything to the invaders. All bread, all sprats and all water went to feed the Bloody Soviet Regime. In particular, everyone knows that Estonia fed the whole of Russia. Unfortunately for Ukraine, the Bloody Empire occupied Estonia too late, otherwise Estonia would have had time to feed Ukraine as well, thereby preventing a famine. This all follows logically from the words of the Democrats, which means it is true.
Democratic capitalist market system- the most humane and progressive, in contrast to the dead-end socialist model. The market will put everything in its place. Who is weaker - he will die, and who is toothy - he will survive. It's the same as in wild nature - natural selection. After all, the law of the jungle is the most progressive humane law, not like stupid wild socialism, in which the unprofitable are subsidized, the penniless are treated and the weak are fed.
The Soviet economy was extremely wasteful and had too many extra factories, schools, kindergartens, libraries, swimming pools, houses of culture, museums, cinemas, circles, stadiums and other excesses. For almost 20 years, progressive democratic power in everything post-Soviet space eradicates this ridiculous legacy of totalitarianism, a lot of work has been done, but not everything has been destroyed so far. Well this is how much the totalitarians have built! Much work remains to be done by the democratic forces!
And when finally everything is destroyed, stability and prosperity will immediately come.
