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Wages for workers in the Soviet Union declined in the 1920s as well, before the rise of Nazi Germany. This was due to the Soviet goal of transforming the count
by ETH_start 3y ago
Wages for workers in the Soviet Union declined in the 1920s as well, before the rise of Nazi Germany.
This was due to the Soviet goal of transforming the country from an agrarian society into an industrialized socialist state, which ignored basic economics to devastating effect.
The USSR received a colossal amount of aid from the US during WW2 through Lend-Lease, and following the war, carted off significant amounts of physical and human capital from Eastern Europe, especially East Germany.
And despite all of this, by the 1980s it was clear that the USSR's command and control economy could not keep up with the West's liberal economy, especially as emerging industries like semiconductors were too complex to manage without markets.
- paganel 3y agoThey received trucks, which certainly helped, but the tanks and the artillery ammunition were certainly on the Soviets and the Soviets alone. You win a modern a war on the Russian/Ukrainian steppe with artillery, Napoleon and Hitler and now NATO would tell you the same thing, anything else is nice to have but if you don’t have artillery you’re toast.
- ETH_start 3y agoNot just trucks, but train locomotives and railcars, planes and food.