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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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[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 week ago

To add to what others have already said:

There's that declassified CIA report which says Soviet citizens ate or at least had access to more calories than their US counterparts by the 1980s.

Then there's the fact that housing was effectively free.