>I grew up in late USSR Data is better than anecdotes: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GDP_per_capita_development_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg https://comm

>I grew up in late USSR Data is better than anecdotes: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GDP_per_capita_development_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GDP_per_capita_devel... These are data reconstructed by Western economists, not Soviet partisans. Only when the political system was in a meltdown by the end of the '80s did the USSR experience a sustained economic decline.