I mean, yes? In the USSR there was a total inflation of 0% between 1950 and 1985, and in that time salaries grew at a steady rate about 200%, thereby tripling purchase power, as working hours got progressively reduced.

Literally all those things you mentioned are 50+ year old technology, yes, even GPS. Amazing that you can’t come up with a single thing made in the past 50 years that improved our lives, literally proving the post of the point.

This graph is useless. It’s bullshit spewed by the likes of Pinker, and you know why it’s bullshit? Because it measures poverty as “wage earned below a certain level”. It ignores access to goods and services outside payment, i.e., it ignores all pre-capitalist forms of production.

It’s as I measured poverty in “grain grown by the mean person per year” (not average total per capita, but mean person). Nowadays nobody grows grain, 200 years ago everyone did, the graph would show skyrocketing poverty.

Most production in pre-capitalist societies was for self-consumption or for the immediate community. This graph simply doesn’t take this into account.

Capitalist bullshit

The disappearance of the USSR made it so that capitalism doesn’t have to pretend the grass is greener on this side. It never was, but now there’s not when pretending.

Mate you don’t see the pills next to her? It’s clearly a depiction of someone with a sickness or a disability. Maybe she’s writing on the union newspaper, maybe she’s designing the posters for the next protest, you’re literally judging a drawing

I see they teach German history very poorly over there.

In fact, yes, the people who SAVED YOU FROM NAZISM were the Soviets, the fact that there’s this level of Russophobia and anticommunism in Germany is because it was convenient for NATO to keep your Nazi roots. The US did a commendable job during the war with Lend-Lease, but its role in the war is severely overestimated. The UK got significantly more aid through Lend-Lease than the USSR, yet who defeated the Nazis?

Also lets not put it as if the soviets were a better regiem

Universal healthcare, free education to the highest level, guaranteed housing and abolition of homelessness, guaranteed jobs and abolition of unemployment, lowest rates of inequality in the history of the region, and literally eliminating Nazism. All of those are diametrically opposed to Nazism. There’s a reason why your Nazi ancestors were hysterical about “Judeo-Bolshevism” and considered communists their greatest enemies.

Educate yourself. The fact that a German person out of anyone will be denying the Soviet victory against the Nazis is simply a form of Nazi propaganda.

Khrushchyovki were built starting in the 1950s, in a country that 20 years prior had a 90% of starved, uneducated peasant agrarian population. They were kinda small (not smaller than what people in Madrid rent nowadays for 10 times the price though), but they literally had to build a country from scratch: there had been no modern housing prior. England or Germany had a healthy 150 years of industrialization + urbanization at that point, the Soviets had 20 years.

For most of the history of the USSR, they were building the largest amount of housing of any planet on Earth, smaller housing was preferable to no housing. They literally couldn’t build more, the country ran on full employment, building more housing would have meant reduced doctors, teachers, factory workers or farmers.

That housing only looks depressing because it’s been ran down after 35 years of negligence in capitalism. As they say, “what communism built capitalism can’t even paint”. The pictures are also often taken in winter with the dead trees and grey dark days.

That doesn’t look sad or depressing at all to me

I fully agree that with modern technology we could do absolute wonders and magnificent housing.

Go ahead, fucking respond to the picture posted below, dumbass motherfucker

Most people in many post-soviet countries such as Romania say that life was better under socialism, and that’s despite 35 years of anticommunist propaganda based on cold war myths and anti-Russian racism.

Go ahead, tell us again how wonderfully well capitalism has worked for Ukraine

If you’re looking for strategy against Nazis, you only have to look at how they were defeated in 1941-1945: with communism.

Meanwhile, your “social” “democrats” are increasing the working week lmfao

Regulations differ between capitalist countries, results don’t: housing is unaffordable everywhere and landlords are rich all over Europe and North America.

The problem is not with the specific legislation when 25 different legislations give the same result.

German government on its speedrun to fascism as usual

When the premise is to grow GDP, raising housing prices is good policy.

This is criticism of capitalism and GDPmaxxing, not an endorsement of landlordism.

Friendly reminder that the USSR provided housing as a right, people accessed their housing through their workplace union ensuring fair distribution and proximity to the workplace, and housing costed on average 3% of monthly income, or 7-10% including utilities. Urban plans prioritized walkability and public transit, green areas, high density and availability of services. Homelessness was de facto abolished, people weren’t segregated by income in rich or poor neighbourhoods, and literally everyone was entitled to a warm living space, at the minimum in a communal dorm.

If only there were example of societies that had managed to eliminate landlordism and had provided affordable housing to everyone as a right… I’m sure every leftist here would agree with such societies!!!

The problem isn’t the landlords. It’s the system

The problem is that the system allows landlordism to exist. Cool for your tenants that you’re a good landlord (trusting your word here), but nobody should be in a position where their housing depends on whether their landlord happens to be good or not.

Your entire comment can be dismissed by saying “you’re mistaking the existence of landlords with the existence of rent”

The problem is not the existence of flats to rent, the problem is that if said flats are rented for profit (as happens in the vast majority of occasions due to the free money they give) every cent of profit is extracted from someone else’s work.

Rent should exist, it should just be public and cost no more than the cost of construction + upkeep.

It’s both, though? Like, the entire point of owning housing to rent it is to get passive income, i.e. someone else’s hard earned money.

Enabling mass-migration into rich countries just means brown people will become the new underclass

Only true for societies with job shortages, which hasn’t been the case for most of history and is quite unique to capitalism. In a socialist society with full employment, mass migration would be more than welcome, as socialists understand that labor is the source of value and the means to betterment of society.

Hey! Thanks for the reply!!

Now, though, the link won’t open. Are you able to open it?

No idea, it works for me

As for Moscow and St. Petersburg—they are magnificent cities; when I first visited St. Petersburg back in the 80s, I fell completely in love with the place. I highly recommend visiting them

I’ve been fortunate enough to visit both cities recently, I have some pictures of my last trip to Russia over in my main account somewhere in the post history :). I loved my time in Russia!

However, a new wave is currently emerging in Russia—particularly in recent times—comprising people, including the youth, who are finally beginning to see the light.

I truly hope so. We’re starting to see something similar in Spain funnily enough, with some rapidly growing communist parties such as Movimiento Socialista.

That’s an astonishing story, Comrade! This is the first I’ve heard of women’s rights being infringed upon in Russia.

Well, it’s no secret that abortion rights are being limited, such as requiring psychological visits in order to get an abortion, or that violence against women within a couple is often disregarded by police and the first offence often only lands you a relatively small fine. I’m not trying to say this is exclusive to Russia, the rise of the far-right is universal to capitalist countries in Europe and North America, but it is factual that this is happening in Russia as well.

As for LGBTQ, Russian loved ones transmit to me that in the 2000s there were more openly queer personalities in media, and even when I visited there was propaganda on the streets about traditional families, I believe the slogan was любить по-русски. Again, this is universal to all European and North American countries, not specific to Russia. My whole point is that the support to the Russian government in the Ukraine war is simply critical support for the instance and not overt support for the system as a whole as was the case of the USSR.

It all seems a bit jumbled—are you referring to the wage increases and the shortage of jobs?

Yup, that’s what I’m trying to refer to

were it not for Iran and Russia’s ability to sell more oil, the country would be running a budget deficit

Budget deficits are an interesting economic topic. If you’re interested on a discussion about budget deficits and communism, I’ve done a cursory enough research of the economic history of the USSR that I believe I can justify how budget deficit can be absolutely wonderful for the economy ;)

Yes, there is an observed outflow of migrant workers and a shortage of labor for physically demanding jobs, but I do not believe this will lead to a crisis comparable to the one in Ukraine.

My point was actually the opposite. I don’t believe Russia faces a big crisis in the immediate future, I’m asking whether in your experience salaries are actually rising and bettering the purchase power of people!

Again, thanks a lot for your responses.