You 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 firs

You 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...