Wow this is some bullshit. Wikipedia is not a source, it has a very pro-capitalist bias. And the thing about people starving (outside of wartime) is nothing but propaganda, even the CIA admitted that Russians got more calories per day than Americans.
As I’ve written in my comment, there a bunch of sources at the bottom of the Wikipedia page (yes, even sources that were written by Soviet citizens in the Soviet union).
And the thing about people starving (outside of wartime) is nothing but propaganda, even the CIA admitted that Russians got more calories per day than Americans.
Have you read that report? It only includes data gathered from 1965 to 1984, which is a period specifically known as Khrushchev Thaw, in which the life expectancy got a lot higher, healthcare and the housing situation improved. So data gathered from that period is not at all representative of the situation as a whole in the Soviet Union. Plus, a lot of the improvements happened majorly due to almost complete halt of repressions, release of political prisoners and prisoners from the Gulag camps, which given that tens of millions of people have experienced them, constituted such a big role in the life improvement overall across all people and average life expectancy.
And I’m not sure that we can call ending of repressions and release of all Gulag labor camp prisoners as a positive attribute of the Socialist system…
Wow this is some bullshit. Wikipedia is not a source, it has a very pro-capitalist bias. And the thing about people starving (outside of wartime) is nothing but propaganda, even the CIA admitted that Russians got more calories per day than Americans.
I don’t really know what else to add…
As I’ve written in my comment, there a bunch of sources at the bottom of the Wikipedia page (yes, even sources that were written by Soviet citizens in the Soviet union).
Have you read that report? It only includes data gathered from 1965 to 1984, which is a period specifically known as Khrushchev Thaw, in which the life expectancy got a lot higher, healthcare and the housing situation improved. So data gathered from that period is not at all representative of the situation as a whole in the Soviet Union. Plus, a lot of the improvements happened majorly due to almost complete halt of repressions, release of political prisoners and prisoners from the Gulag camps, which given that tens of millions of people have experienced them, constituted such a big role in the life improvement overall across all people and average life expectancy.
And I’m not sure that we can call ending of repressions and release of all Gulag labor camp prisoners as a positive attribute of the Socialist system…