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> Don't forget that Russia (and thus USSR) started of as a poor agrarian nation to begin with, much behind in industrialization than the US, UK, etc. This is n
by v_lisivka 8y ago
> Don't forget that Russia (and thus USSR) started of as a poor agrarian nation to begin with, much behind in industrialization than the US, UK, etc.
This is not true. Revolution in Russia was performed by industrial workers, not by agrarians. Also, Russia was third-fourth economy in the world just before war. Other countries in the world were much poorer and agrarian.
- coldtea 8y ago>This is not true. Revolution in Russia was performed by industrial workers, not by agrarians. That's not an argument against what I said. The whole country was predominantly agrarian (and much more so than any western power). That a small industrial minority in big cities was involved in the revolution doesn't change that. >Also, Russia was third-fourth economy in the world just before war. Other countries in the world were much poorer and agrarian. Yes, but we don't compare Russia to e.g. African countries or Latin American, but to the European and US western countries it had to compete with.
- v_lisivka 8y agoYou can compare Russia with Japan, or Korea, or Singapore, or China. Apples to apples. If you look at historical values of GPD, you will see that grown in first world countries (Europe, Russia, the United States, Canada, and Japan) started at about 1850, and they outpaced rest of the world in about 1900. I see no correlation between data and Stalin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(PPP) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(P...