The USSR of the 1980s was not the USSR of the 1920s.
Yeltsin's takeover was a fucking nightmare, but the theory that they didn't need a new revolution and some serious house-cleaning requires a seriously rose-colored rear view mirror. Gorbachev should have been evidence enough of that.
Nooo this has been knocking about on the internet for a long long time. I've used it so so much though because it's honestly brilliant at demonstrating what a power the very existence of the USSR was and what they provided to their population was in influencing global capitalist treatment of their own populations. I have no idea who the originator was I'm afraid.
It is one of the strongest tools in my toolbox to demonstrate to cut through the bs in people's minds about the USSR.
Relevant graph of US wealth Inequality with the important historical moments marked. The very moment they knew the USSR was going to fall was the very moment they no longer had to keep up any pretense of good conditions for the American people.
Thinking about how Chomsky said the fall of the USSR was good while looking at these graphs
The USSR of the 1980s was not the USSR of the 1920s.
Yeltsin's takeover was a fucking nightmare, but the theory that they didn't need a new revolution and some serious house-cleaning requires a seriously rose-colored rear view mirror. Gorbachev should have been evidence enough of that.
definitely agreed with that.
Great plot. OC?
Nooo this has been knocking about on the internet for a long long time. I've used it so so much though because it's honestly brilliant at demonstrating what a power the very existence of the USSR was and what they provided to their population was in influencing global capitalist treatment of their own populations. I have no idea who the originator was I'm afraid.
It is one of the strongest tools in my toolbox to demonstrate to cut through the bs in people's minds about the USSR.
Good graph. Does anyone have one from the old mod stickies from r/CTH that had both US and USSR food production on it? It was my favourite