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Debunk the idea that "living standards in the USSR were bad" (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by fire86743@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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I'm not talking like during WW2 or prior. I am talking about during the Cold War, pre-Gorbachev.

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[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1646771/pdf/amjph00269-0055.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1646824/pdf/amjph00253-0110b.pdf

(Commentary thereon.)

ETA: In research published after the twentieth century, Elizabeth Brainerd used archival and anthropometric data to provide a detailed analysis of living standards in the U.S.S.R., admitting that for all their faults, the Soviets still achieved

Remarkably large and rapid improvements in child height, adult stature and infant mortality [and] significant improvements likely occurred in the nutrition, sanitary practices, and public health infrastructure.

She also states that

the physical growth record of the Soviet population compares favorably with that of other European countries at a similar level of development in this period.

And finally,

The conventional measures of GNP growth and household consumption indicate a long, uninterrupted upward climb in the Soviet standard of living from 1928 to 1985; even Western estimates of these measures support this view, albeit at a slower rate of growth than the Soviet measures.