I’m doing a presentation on the soviet union for school soon and i would like to know all your opinions on this.

I’ve got: an over-bloated bureaucracy (which was prone to corruption), rural poverty (which is very unfair as basically all countries have rural poverty- difference is that some countries actually help these people), and a lacking light industry that led to economic dissatisfaction from the populace.

I might share the PowerPoint here for your feedback although its very small as its for a vocational exam that is only a few minutes

  • RedFortress
    9•2 years ago

    One of the criticisms of the Soviet Union that I have is how they failed to properly anticipate and react to Germany which resulted in the disasters of 1941 with millions of people being sent into German camps and prisons

    • @jamabalayaman@lemmygrad.ml
      16•2 years ago

      I can’t blame them for that, it’s because Hitler acted in a really unpredictable way lol. Stalin never thought Hitler could possibly be crazy and stupid enough to repeat the crucial mistake which lost WWI for Germany - opening up a war on two fronts at the same time. He was sure that Hitler would only turn his attention eastwards once the western front had been completely settled - a completely reasonable judgement at the time…

    • Catraism-Stalinism
      15•2 years ago

      It tried to make an anti fascist pact. Keep in mind that the nazis attacked in the midst of Soviet Rearmament, and if they had attacked in a year or two, would have been met with insanely overpowered resistance. Soviets were still one very young union of lands, they couldn’t do everything.