You have no idea about conditions on the ground in the USSR in the 1980s. No meat, no consumer goods, people queued up for everything. The only thing that the r

You have no idea about conditions on the ground in the USSR in the 1980s. No meat, no consumer goods, people queued up for everything. The only thing that the regime could produce, besides weapons, were throughly false impressive statistics. Relying on Moscow for its growth figures is like relying on Charles Ponzi to multiply your savings. There is enough Eastern Europeans here on this forum that this kind of pro-Soviet misinformation won't fly here. We know precisely how things were.