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There was a massive drop in living standards in the former Soviet Union after the introduction of capitalism in the 90es. Average life expectancy dropped someth
by throwaway4good 4y ago
There was a massive drop in living standards in the former Soviet Union after the introduction of capitalism in the 90es. Average life expectancy dropped something like 10 years, corresponding to millions of dead.
- kurisufag 4y ago>There was a massive drop in living standards that tends to happen when the government runs resources down to near-zero, forcing the new system to start from scratch. had the conversion occurred earlier, when the USSR was still a reasonably successful state, I suspect it would have gone nicer.
- snovv_crash 4y agoIt also coincided with massive increase in the supply of available alcohol.
- wiseowise 4y agoAnd that’s an issue of capitalism, not impotent economy that has been drained by decades of poor planned economy of communism?