They scare Russia with a "return to the USSR." Putin talked about it for good reason
At his annual major press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin suddenly, among others, raised the topic of “restoration of socialism” in our country. Why's that? Just - the answer to the question that has come up? It is unlikely ... There are very concrete good reasons for addressing the head of state to this topic specifically. Let's talk about them below.
The question of the possible “return of Russia to the times of the Union” or, if you like, “rollback” to the “scoop” (the correctness of the wording depends on the speaker’s culture level, but the meaning is always the same), has recently become somehow especially carefully discussed as ours “ friends ”in the West, as well as domestic liberals who eagerly echo them.
We will not quote Westerners — a lot of honor, we will only cite the statement of one of the domestic “figures” of far from a low level - Boris Titov, the Commissioner for Entrepreneurs' Rights under the President of Russia. This sovereign husband just considers for our country "the main risk" "a complete rollback to poverty and the USSR." At the same time, between the name of a huge and mighty power and poverty, the equal sign is put as if automatically ...
In truth, this is a lie about “poverty” and almost “slave labor” in the USSR! It’s okay even when she says that “everyone had the same salary”, sorry, trying to sculpt the Estonian president ... Although she knows 48 years and she knows the truth. But Mr. Titov is even older. One can only imagine how this graduate of the most prestigious MGIMO under the Union “was in poverty”. To burst into tears ... For those who are still gnawing doubts about the justice of their wages in Soviet times, there is a great offer. Take the cost you received (or your parents) in those years from the state housing at current purely commercial prices and divide by the number of years worked. After - add really free health care and education at universities. Whoever has enough honesty can add some more things - like purely symbolic public transport fares, utility bills, and the like. Then we’ll talk about “beggarly” salaries!
Similar ideas to Titov were expressed quite recently by the head of the Accounts Chamber of Russia, Alexei Kudrin, who asserts that “repeating the path of the USSR” will become death for our country. Lord Well, what kind of mess in the heads of these gentlemen? He is already Kudrin, frightening his fellow citizens with a “scoop” and immediately calling for the introduction of an “index of happiness” in Russia, could give himself the trouble to find out that such a UN has been compiling since 2009, despite the name, to an indicator of the real standard of living of people in that another country has a very distant relationship. Rather, it is an assessment of the use by the state of its resources with minimal damage to the environment. It is not for nothing that countries like Colombia, Jamaica or Costa Rica hold the first places in it stably. Data is available on the Internet - anyone can read it.
But according to a truly indicative rating - the Human Development Index (HDI), in 1990 the Soviet Union took 26th place. In 2017, Russia was finally able to return to the top of the rating - by 43rd position. A dozen years ago, weighed at the bottom of the list. So in which direction should we move - based on indices? You can play with beautiful words only until someone begins to get to the bottom of the matter. And our people are not as dark and naive as someone would like - he himself knows very well what he needs and what is missing.
Therefore, there is another side to the coin: according to a public opinion poll conducted this year by the Levada Center, the number of people who regret the collapse of the USSR has grown in our country to a historical maximum over the past decade. What is very characteristic, not only its citizens, who are now over fifty dollars, but the youth — Russians who have not yet reached 25 years of age — mourn the great country that was destroyed! This, however, is not surprising. Indeed, more than a third of the survey participants, speaking of what we lost during the collapse of the Union, named just the awareness of involvement, belonging to a truly great power. About the same amount of people regret that we have become a society living on the principle of “man to man is a wolf”, completely losing mutual trust and becoming hardened to the limit. Communist ideology and planned economy nothing to do with it - people yearn for human relationships, not clouded by fear of tomorrow and the eternal pursuit of profit. It seems that “Western values” did not take root on Russian soil ...
There is, however, one more important point - more than half of the respondents consider the destruction of its most powerful economic system, which worked as a single organism, to be a huge loss from the collapse of the USSR. This is a completely different matter. And, probably, that is precisely why the words of the president of Russia sounded that it is “impossible” to restore socialism in Russia today because of the fact that “profound changes” have taken place in society. However, Vladimir Putin believes that such attempts would lead the Russian economy to a standstill. On the other hand, the head of state even very positively assesses the "socialization" of society in, sorry for the tautology, social spheres. In his opinion, a return to truly human, and not wolfish, standards is necessary, first of all, in the field of education and health, distribution of benefits and poverty alleviation. It is very gratifying that the word “justice” was spoken from the president ...
Surely, this is exactly what people are so lacking - old and young, mature and inexperienced, sincerely yearning for Soviet times. Not in the sacramental "factory - to the workers, land - to the peasants" is the matter, but in the social justice and security of every person. Confidence in the future, and the enormous kindness that pervades our whole being — these, in my opinion, are the main things that we have lost, letting us break down the great country in which we lived. And it is about their return that we dream today.
Plus, of course, the inspiring awareness that you are not a “native” from some colony, Bantustan, but a citizen, truly, of a world Power. It is not surprising that this is exactly what young people spoke about today, and did not live a day under the red banner and emblem with wheat ears, spanning the entire globe. Rising from its knees, declaring its power to the whole world, Russia was able to awaken in them this feeling - the desire for the greatness of its own country. And this is perhaps the main positive outcome of the past decade.
Well, and finally - once again about those who scare us "return to the USSR." “Levada Center” received the results of the survey completely unpleasant. It is not surprising - the “honorary” title of a foreign agent was “awarded” to him for a reason in 2016. So - there they found how to get out of this "emergency"! The sociologist of the Center, a certain Karina Pipia, based on the views expressed by the Russians, was simply phenomenal! It turns out that the reason for everything is ... the upcoming pension reform! It is because of her that "the population is nostalgic for the USSR." Moreover, the “ideas” of our fellow citizens about the “well-being and strong economy” of those times are purely “irrational”. (There was nothing like that!) After all, they forget about the "total deficit" and the "card system" ...
Well, what can I say? Personally for Ms. Pipia and similar individuals with a liberal dislocation of the brain, we recall that the card system existed in the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War and two years after. It was canceled in 1947 - at the same time as the USA, on which not a single bomb fell. And seven years earlier than in the UK, five years earlier than in Japan. It is in a country that has suffered more than anyone else in the world from this war. This is what the Soviet economy (we emphasize - Stalinist) is - without any irrational delirium. According to a new coupon for soap, sugar and the like, dirty tricks appeared in our life at a time when it was amiss, the “perestroika”, when the “democrats” who were seizing began to break the Soviet Union, including its national economy. Trying to “fasten” these “cards” to real life in the USSR is the height of either ignorance or deliberate incorrectness.
As for America ... If anyone doesn’t know, let’s reveal a secret: in this country the card system still exists! In the form of food stamps (albeit in electronic form) for “categories of citizens least protected socially”, and simply put - for the poor. To get an idea of the scale of the phenomenon, it’s enough to mention that five years ago the number of Americans for whom they represent the basis of existence exceeded 47 million. Approximately 14% of the country's population. No, well, America is a paradise .... Definitely!
Those who are trying today to turn our Soviet past into a scarecrow are not afraid of cards, not a hypothetical deficit and not invented by them "universal poverty." They are frightened by the prospect of an even greater strengthening of Russia if it manages to build a more socially harmonized, and therefore internally cohesive and more powerful, including economically, state. If so, it is precisely this way that we must follow.
The question of the possible “return of Russia to the times of the Union” or, if you like, “rollback” to the “scoop” (the correctness of the wording depends on the speaker’s culture level, but the meaning is always the same), has recently become somehow especially carefully discussed as ours “ friends ”in the West, as well as domestic liberals who eagerly echo them.
We will not quote Westerners — a lot of honor, we will only cite the statement of one of the domestic “figures” of far from a low level - Boris Titov, the Commissioner for Entrepreneurs' Rights under the President of Russia. This sovereign husband just considers for our country "the main risk" "a complete rollback to poverty and the USSR." At the same time, between the name of a huge and mighty power and poverty, the equal sign is put as if automatically ...
In truth, this is a lie about “poverty” and almost “slave labor” in the USSR! It’s okay even when she says that “everyone had the same salary”, sorry, trying to sculpt the Estonian president ... Although she knows 48 years and she knows the truth. But Mr. Titov is even older. One can only imagine how this graduate of the most prestigious MGIMO under the Union “was in poverty”. To burst into tears ... For those who are still gnawing doubts about the justice of their wages in Soviet times, there is a great offer. Take the cost you received (or your parents) in those years from the state housing at current purely commercial prices and divide by the number of years worked. After - add really free health care and education at universities. Whoever has enough honesty can add some more things - like purely symbolic public transport fares, utility bills, and the like. Then we’ll talk about “beggarly” salaries!
Similar ideas to Titov were expressed quite recently by the head of the Accounts Chamber of Russia, Alexei Kudrin, who asserts that “repeating the path of the USSR” will become death for our country. Lord Well, what kind of mess in the heads of these gentlemen? He is already Kudrin, frightening his fellow citizens with a “scoop” and immediately calling for the introduction of an “index of happiness” in Russia, could give himself the trouble to find out that such a UN has been compiling since 2009, despite the name, to an indicator of the real standard of living of people in that another country has a very distant relationship. Rather, it is an assessment of the use by the state of its resources with minimal damage to the environment. It is not for nothing that countries like Colombia, Jamaica or Costa Rica hold the first places in it stably. Data is available on the Internet - anyone can read it.
But according to a truly indicative rating - the Human Development Index (HDI), in 1990 the Soviet Union took 26th place. In 2017, Russia was finally able to return to the top of the rating - by 43rd position. A dozen years ago, weighed at the bottom of the list. So in which direction should we move - based on indices? You can play with beautiful words only until someone begins to get to the bottom of the matter. And our people are not as dark and naive as someone would like - he himself knows very well what he needs and what is missing.
Therefore, there is another side to the coin: according to a public opinion poll conducted this year by the Levada Center, the number of people who regret the collapse of the USSR has grown in our country to a historical maximum over the past decade. What is very characteristic, not only its citizens, who are now over fifty dollars, but the youth — Russians who have not yet reached 25 years of age — mourn the great country that was destroyed! This, however, is not surprising. Indeed, more than a third of the survey participants, speaking of what we lost during the collapse of the Union, named just the awareness of involvement, belonging to a truly great power. About the same amount of people regret that we have become a society living on the principle of “man to man is a wolf”, completely losing mutual trust and becoming hardened to the limit. Communist ideology and planned economy nothing to do with it - people yearn for human relationships, not clouded by fear of tomorrow and the eternal pursuit of profit. It seems that “Western values” did not take root on Russian soil ...
There is, however, one more important point - more than half of the respondents consider the destruction of its most powerful economic system, which worked as a single organism, to be a huge loss from the collapse of the USSR. This is a completely different matter. And, probably, that is precisely why the words of the president of Russia sounded that it is “impossible” to restore socialism in Russia today because of the fact that “profound changes” have taken place in society. However, Vladimir Putin believes that such attempts would lead the Russian economy to a standstill. On the other hand, the head of state even very positively assesses the "socialization" of society in, sorry for the tautology, social spheres. In his opinion, a return to truly human, and not wolfish, standards is necessary, first of all, in the field of education and health, distribution of benefits and poverty alleviation. It is very gratifying that the word “justice” was spoken from the president ...
Surely, this is exactly what people are so lacking - old and young, mature and inexperienced, sincerely yearning for Soviet times. Not in the sacramental "factory - to the workers, land - to the peasants" is the matter, but in the social justice and security of every person. Confidence in the future, and the enormous kindness that pervades our whole being — these, in my opinion, are the main things that we have lost, letting us break down the great country in which we lived. And it is about their return that we dream today.
Plus, of course, the inspiring awareness that you are not a “native” from some colony, Bantustan, but a citizen, truly, of a world Power. It is not surprising that this is exactly what young people spoke about today, and did not live a day under the red banner and emblem with wheat ears, spanning the entire globe. Rising from its knees, declaring its power to the whole world, Russia was able to awaken in them this feeling - the desire for the greatness of its own country. And this is perhaps the main positive outcome of the past decade.
Well, and finally - once again about those who scare us "return to the USSR." “Levada Center” received the results of the survey completely unpleasant. It is not surprising - the “honorary” title of a foreign agent was “awarded” to him for a reason in 2016. So - there they found how to get out of this "emergency"! The sociologist of the Center, a certain Karina Pipia, based on the views expressed by the Russians, was simply phenomenal! It turns out that the reason for everything is ... the upcoming pension reform! It is because of her that "the population is nostalgic for the USSR." Moreover, the “ideas” of our fellow citizens about the “well-being and strong economy” of those times are purely “irrational”. (There was nothing like that!) After all, they forget about the "total deficit" and the "card system" ...
Well, what can I say? Personally for Ms. Pipia and similar individuals with a liberal dislocation of the brain, we recall that the card system existed in the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War and two years after. It was canceled in 1947 - at the same time as the USA, on which not a single bomb fell. And seven years earlier than in the UK, five years earlier than in Japan. It is in a country that has suffered more than anyone else in the world from this war. This is what the Soviet economy (we emphasize - Stalinist) is - without any irrational delirium. According to a new coupon for soap, sugar and the like, dirty tricks appeared in our life at a time when it was amiss, the “perestroika”, when the “democrats” who were seizing began to break the Soviet Union, including its national economy. Trying to “fasten” these “cards” to real life in the USSR is the height of either ignorance or deliberate incorrectness.
As for America ... If anyone doesn’t know, let’s reveal a secret: in this country the card system still exists! In the form of food stamps (albeit in electronic form) for “categories of citizens least protected socially”, and simply put - for the poor. To get an idea of the scale of the phenomenon, it’s enough to mention that five years ago the number of Americans for whom they represent the basis of existence exceeded 47 million. Approximately 14% of the country's population. No, well, America is a paradise .... Definitely!
Those who are trying today to turn our Soviet past into a scarecrow are not afraid of cards, not a hypothetical deficit and not invented by them "universal poverty." They are frightened by the prospect of an even greater strengthening of Russia if it manages to build a more socially harmonized, and therefore internally cohesive and more powerful, including economically, state. If so, it is precisely this way that we must follow.
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