December 26th: End of the Soviet Union

Truly Russia was quite industrialized before the revolution.Russia even produse more steel than France and the production of coal was incrasing very fast (6 milion tons in 1890 36 milons in 1914.Rusiia was the second larger produser of oil.Russian light industri was large too.She posses much more facilities for cotton than France or Austro-hungary.Massive factories with several thousand workers appear near St.Petersburg , Moscow and othere big cities.But if you change the view piont the picture became different.Even that there was 3milion factory workers at that time that is 1,75% of  the population.Even that  there was local firms much of the industry was held by foreighners like "Singer".In 1914 100%of the oil production,90% of the mining, 40% of the metalurgy,50% of the chemecal production, 28% of the light industry was held by foreighners.That is not soo bad but it shows how dependent on foreighn capitals was Russia.At that time Russia had the largest foreighn dept.The payements on that dept were larger than the real trade balance.In 1913 63% of the export was agrocultural products and 11% was wood materials.80 of the population was pesantry.Not only that but the agrocultural production was very ineficiant .The grain production was even lesser than 33% of that England prodused.Also the medival way of using the land- with wooden plows and exsastion of the land because the same culture was seeded.Even that the agrocultural production was increasing with 2% yearly it cant met the demand of 1.5% population increasing yearly.

This about the electrician gye is true, but even siting in the office he get payed.My grandfather had the same job.He was Pumping station observer and his job was to visid with his busicle,  the 2 small pumping station, who were maneged by one pumping technitian whose job was to push "ON" "OFF', to see if they are pumping and the pumping technician offer him food and beer.

I am a leftist.I know that USSR was not a democratical state nor i praise it.But i have to acknowledge  them some things.They helped the world to defeat Nazi Germany,they boosted technological progress thanks to the competition with US,they gave the world a hope,as fake as it was,that they can be sth different than the black capitalist world.And for sure,people in the USSR during the 50's  were living much better than in democratical Greece,where 3 people had to share one egg.

Yes, Poland lost about 6 millions citisens. I would say 4,5 millions were murdered by Nazists and about 1,5 millions by Soviets. Some statistics say that about 2 millions were killed by Soviets but i guess that not all were killed because we still got about 200.000 Poles in Kazakhstan.

The worst thing was that they were imprisoning, torturing and killing those who for 5 years were fighting against Germans and helping soviets by blowing up the trains with German supplies which were going to eastern front and those who were attacking Germans from behind when Red Army was coming.

I partly disagree.

Russsia was industrialized,but not quite.

Let me remind you the fact that Russia launched industrialization process in 1880s and 90s thanks to Count Witte..In other words decades later than westen europe and more or less 30 years before the revolution.

in 1904 Trans-Siberian railway completed.But yet it is not enough to call Russia a quite industrialized country before the revolution.

Lenin himself knew this and added hiis point of view to the Marxist theory.

Advanced but not quiet peaceful.

True the payement was little but it was more then enough to feed your family,to pay taxes and bye something extra, but not enough to bye a tv.But because of that people were stockpiling their money in so called "Jar bank" and then in the late70s and 80s ,when everybody has the money,there was a rush to bye these things and eventualythe production cant met the demand of the population