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
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.