Wait till you find out what USSR managed to do when it comes to lifting people from owning nothing. Russia went from a backwards agrarian society where people t

Wait till you find out what USSR managed to do when it comes to lifting people from owning nothing. Russia went from a backwards agrarian society where people travelled by horse and carriage to being the first in space in the span of 40 years. Russia showed incredible growth after the revolution that surpassed the rest of the world: https://wid.world/document/soviets-oligarchs-inequality-property-russia-1905-2016/ https://wid.world/document/soviets-oligarchs-inequality-prop... https://wid.world/document/appendix-soviets-oligarchs-inequality-property-russia-1905-2016-wid-world-working-paper-201710/ https://wid.world/document/appendix-soviets-oligarchs-inequa... USSR provided free education to all citizens resulting in literacy rising from 33% to 99.9%: http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PubEdUSSR.htm http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PubEdUSSR.htm http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/anglosov.htm http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/anglosov.htm http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000013/001300eo.pdf http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000013/001300eo.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likbez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likbez USSR doubled life expectancy in just 20 years. A newborn child in 1926-27 had a life expectancy of 44.4 years, up from 32.3 years thirty years before. In 1958-59 the life expectancy for newborns went up to 68.6 years. the Semashko system of the USSR increased lifespan by 50% in 20 years. By the 1960's, lifespans in the USSR were comparable to those in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Uni... https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB5054/index1.html https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB5054/index1.html Quality of nutrition improved after the Soviet revolution, and the last time USSR had a famine was in 1940s. CIA data suggests they ate just as much as Americans after WW2 peroid while having better nutrition: https://www.scribd.com/document/430076844/CIA-RDP84B00274R000300150009-5-pdf https://www.scribd.com/document/430076844/CIA-RDP84B00274R00... USSR moved from 58.5-hour work weeks to 41.6 hour work weeks (-0.36 h/yr) between 1913 and 1960: https://books.google.com/books?id=x8JYjwEACAAJ https://books.google.com/books?id=x8JYjwEACAAJ https://b-ok.cc/book/2669908/77497f https://b-ok.cc/book/2669908/77497f USSR averaged 22 days of paid leave in 1986 while USA averaged 7.6 in 1996: https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/1994/94B09_66_englp2.pdf https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/1994/94B09_66_englp2.p... https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs.t05.htm https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs.t05.htm In 1987, people in the USSR could retire with pension at 55 (female) and 60 (male) while receiving 50% of their wages at a at minimum. Meanwhile, in USA the average retirement age was 62-67 and the average (not median) retiree household in the USA could expect $48k/yr which comes out to 65% of the 74k average (not median) household income in 2016: https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/1994/94B09_66_englp2.pdf https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/1994/94B09_66_englp2.p... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/could-you-get-by-on-the-average-americans-retirement-income/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/could-you-get-by-on-the-average... GDP took off after socialism was established and then collapsed with the reintroduction of capitalism: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soviet_Union_GDP_per_capita.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soviet_Union_GDP_per... The Soviet Union had the highest physician/patient ratio in the world. USSR had 42 doctors per 10,000 population compared to 24 in Denmark and Sweden, and 19 in US: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0735675784900482 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/07356757849... (sci-hub for access) USSR defeated a smallpox epidemic in a matter of 19 days https://www.rbth.com/history/331857-how-ussr-defeated-black-smallpox https://www.rbth.com/history/331857-how-ussr-defeated-black-... The Social Consequences of Soviet Immunization Policies https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/nceeer/1997-812-03g-Hoch.pdf https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/nceeer/1997-812-03g-Hoch.pdf Professor of Economic History, Robert C. Allen, concludes in his study without the 1917 revolution is directly responsible for rapid growth that made the achievements listed above possilbe: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.507.8966&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50... Study demonstrating the steady increase in quality of life during the Soviet period (including under Stalin). Includes the fact that Soviet life expectancy grew faster than any other nation recorded at the time: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2672986?seq=1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2672986?seq=1 A large study using world bank data analyzing the quality of life in Capitalist vs Socialist countries and finds overwhelmingly at similar levels of development with socialism bringing better quality of life: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1646771/pdf/amjph00269-0055.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1646771/pdf/amj... This study compared western and eastern blocs in measures of the physical quality of life (PQL), taking into account the level of economic development https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2430906/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2430906/