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@lemmygrad.ml
    112·
    3 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·
      3 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
      161·
      3 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.