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V.I. Gromov, G.A. Vasilyev. The Collapse of the USSR - Causes and Consequences
Year 1998
Beginning:
No matter how hard the regime-friendly media tried to diminish the role and significance of Soviet power, to forget everything good and bring the dark pages of history to light, presenting them in a distorted, aggravated form, they could not instill own people with disgust for the Great October, for the USSR. The conquests of October and socialism are too great, and nothing will eclipse them throughout the world. They passed through the lives of generations and every Soviet family.
Now let us consider in more detail what people had in the USSR, and what they have now lost.
1. We had a comradely, brotherly society. We had a mighty, proud state that depended on no one. We had confidence and hope for an even better life. Today's rulers have forgotten and do not even utter the words upon which our lives stood: work, justice. One cannot fail to mention today how persistently the Soviet government worked, strengthening the power of the country and increasing the welfare of the people.
2. We had everything that a working people needs for a normal human life. First and foremost—guaranteed work according to one's calling and desire, and that which was needed by the country. We regularly received wages twice a month, and the thought never occurred that salary could be delayed. We had affordable free housing, free education (of the highest level), free medical care, health resorts, preventoriums, vacation homes, pioneer camps, tourist bases...
3. The USSR, despite all the difficulties of its history, ensured a type of life that guaranteed the preservation of every people, even the smallest. There was neither national assimilation, nor apartheid, nor unbearable social and cultural discrimination here. Divided peoples lost these guarantees for the sake of mythical benefits of isolation and openness to the West. The fate of many of them, if things continue this way, is to disappear from the face of the Earth.
4. The USSR excluded the emergence of an internal "third world" within it. The destruction of the union, based on the principle of a common historical destiny, immediately led to regional and national economic stratification and the "dumping" of the crisis into "weak" regions with their rapid impoverishment. The power of the market and the greed of the compradore bourgeoisie are such that no "sovereignization" will save one from extremely unfavorable relations with strong partners. The policy of the reformers inevitably leads to relations of the type "first world - third world" within Russia, which itself as a whole will become, in the best case, part of the "third world" in relation to the West.
5. The USSR was the only country in the world that was self-sufficient in mineral, ecological, and human resources. This integrity gave the national economy of the USSR enormous efficiency. The destruction of the USSR plunged all peoples without exception into ruin. All of them lost economic independence, the restoration of which global competitors will try to prevent.
6. The USSR provided its citizens with a life under conditions of real legal protection and, by international standards, high reliability and safety. The Soviet person lived without seeing weapons, OMON with dogs, or even a rubber baton. The collapse of the USSR created a completely new system of threats and dangers for citizens—with the simultaneous emergence of brutal police states.
7. The union state of the USSR removed from the peoples the enormous burden of each people creating its own bureaucratic superstructure, the maintenance of which not only requires huge expenditures but also deforms society. Today, under slogans of "debureaucratization," a monstrously large official apparatus has emerged on the lands of the USSR with all its attributes, including corruption. Two hundred of "their own" embassies inside the USSR and four hundred abroad! The efficiency of the bureaucracy (the volume of real functions performed by one employee of the apparatus) has decreased dozens of times compared to the USSR. Even a healthy economy cannot withstand such a burden.
8. In the USSR, the most efficient system of agriculture was created....
But that's all just for laughs. Here is a good book—Evgeny Piskun. Thermidor in the USSR. The Ideas of L.D. Trotsky and Soviet Reality from the 1920s-1980s. It mostly talks about the opposition in the party and how the bourgeois seized power even after Stalin.
Excerpts from it: "Events in our country fully confirm the cognitive value of Marxist theory, and only on its basis can they be reliably explained. At the same time, the very fact of the restoration of capitalism in the USSR can neither refute nor prove the validity of Marxist theory. The possibility of backward development of human society or a separate part of it, a people or a country, is entirely possible. In his time, K. Marx wrote regarding events in France in the middle of the XIX century: 'A whole people, believing that they had accelerated their progressive movement through revolution, suddenly find themselves transported back into a dead era...' This is exactly what happened to the peoples of Russia at the end of the XX century. Such backward movements of history are possible also in ideological life, when a new theoretical system is for some time pushed aside by an old one, more primitive and hindering social development. A classic example of this event is in the Roman Empire in the II century AD. By this time, Christianity was already the dominant religion. But Emperor Julian, who earned the nickname the Apostate, subjected the new religion and its convinced supporters to persecution and tried to revive paganism. There were immediately a large number of recent theorists and practitioners of 'real Christianity' who renounced their convictions and engaged in the 'revival' of dying pagan traditions and persecutions of their more steadfast comrades. Only two years passed and Christianity again became the dominant force, with whose determining spiritual influence the next millennium of history of the Old World is connected.
Marxism is currently experiencing a period similar to that of Christianity during the time of Julian the Apostate. Such a situation is not the result of deficiencies or peculiarities of its theory, but the result of class struggle."
... At the June Plenum of the Central Committee in 1957, the short period of balance in the class struggle in the USSR, which had lasted since 1953, ended. The period of restoration of capitalism in our country began. It proceeded relatively slowly and 'peacefully'...
I don't know about the first book, but in Piskun's book everything looks real. All those repressed were mostly "degenerate personalities," party members who abused their position, supporters of Trotsky. One of the prerequisites for victory in the Second World War was that Stalin managed to remove all traitors ready to surrender to the fascists in order to share power with them in the USSR.
In general, in my opinion, only Lenin and Stalin were real. In terms of loyalty to communism. This is also stated in the book. The book also says that the experiment with socialism ended in success. The economy flourished, depending on the state. But unfortunately, Stalin had no worthy successor and Khrushchev and his circle seized power. Generally, thinking about this whole topic gets creepy. It pisses me off how f...king mercantile and selfish all these officials and other bureaucrats are. And yet it could have been awesome...
Here is another cool book "I.V. Milonov. Communism - the bright future of humanity," but it's more like a small journalistic brochure. It has few pages. It says that, like, class struggle will continue forever until these classes no longer exist. Under communism, there are no classes.
It seems to me that communism will definitely be in the future.
I have one more theory. After all, man is basically an animal. Although today they deny the existence of natural selection in society, it seems to me that capitalism creates exactly those conditions in which one has to survive. In the end, the strongest survives—that is, the one who has more strength and cunning to earn money. Selection has changed its forms. Society chooses capable people for obtaining profit.
V.I. Gromov, G.A. Vasilyev. The Collapse of the USSR - Causes and Consequences
Year 1998
Beginning:
No matter how hard the regime-friendly media tried to diminish the role and significance of Soviet power, to forget everything good and bring the dark pages of history to light, presenting them in a distorted, aggravated form, they could not instill own people with disgust for the Great October, for the USSR. The conquests of October and socialism are too great, and nothing will eclipse them throughout the world. They passed through the lives of generations and every Soviet family.
Now let us consider in more detail what people had in the USSR, and what they have now lost.
1. We had a comradely, brotherly society. We had a mighty, proud state that depended on no one. We had confidence and hope for an even better life. Today's rulers have forgotten and do not even utter the words upon which our lives stood: work, justice. One cannot fail to mention today how persistently the Soviet government worked, strengthening the power of the country and increasing the welfare of the people.
2. We had everything that a working people needs for a normal human life. First and foremost—guaranteed work according to one's calling and desire, and that which was needed by the country. We regularly received wages twice a month, and the thought never occurred that salary could be delayed. We had affordable free housing, free education (of the highest level), free medical care, health resorts, preventoriums, vacation homes, pioneer camps, tourist bases...
3. The USSR, despite all the difficulties of its history, ensured a type of life that guaranteed the preservation of every people, even the smallest. There was neither national assimilation, nor apartheid, nor unbearable social and cultural discrimination here. Divided peoples lost these guarantees for the sake of mythical benefits of isolation and openness to the West. The fate of many of them, if things continue this way, is to disappear from the face of the Earth.
4. The USSR excluded the emergence of an internal "third world" within it. The destruction of the union, based on the principle of a common historical destiny, immediately led to regional and national economic stratification and the "dumping" of the crisis into "weak" regions with their rapid impoverishment. The power of the market and the greed of the compradore bourgeoisie are such that no "sovereignization" will save one from extremely unfavorable relations with strong partners. The policy of the reformers inevitably leads to relations of the type "first world - third world" within Russia, which itself as a whole will become, in the best case, part of the "third world" in relation to the West.
5. The USSR was the only country in the world that was self-sufficient in mineral, ecological, and human resources. This integrity gave the national economy of the USSR enormous efficiency. The destruction of the USSR plunged all peoples without exception into ruin. All of them lost economic independence, the restoration of which global competitors will try to prevent.
6. The USSR provided its citizens with a life under conditions of real legal protection and, by international standards, high reliability and safety. The Soviet person lived without seeing weapons, OMON with dogs, or even a rubber baton. The collapse of the USSR created a completely new system of threats and dangers for citizens—with the simultaneous emergence of brutal police states.
7. The union state of the USSR removed from the peoples the enormous burden of each people creating its own bureaucratic superstructure, the maintenance of which not only requires huge expenditures but also deforms society. Today, under slogans of "debureaucratization," a monstrously large official apparatus has emerged on the lands of the USSR with all its attributes, including corruption. Two hundred of "their own" embassies inside the USSR and four hundred abroad! The efficiency of the bureaucracy (the volume of real functions performed by one employee of the apparatus) has decreased dozens of times compared to the USSR. Even a healthy economy cannot withstand such a burden.
8. In the USSR, the most efficient system of agriculture was created....
But that's all just for laughs. Here is a good book—Evgeny Piskun. Thermidor in the USSR. The Ideas of L.D. Trotsky and Soviet Reality from the 1920s-1980s. It mostly talks about the opposition in the party and how the bourgeois seized power even after Stalin.
Excerpts from it: "Events in our country fully confirm the cognitive value of Marxist theory, and only on its basis can they be reliably explained. At the same time, the very fact of the restoration of capitalism in the USSR can neither refute nor prove the validity of Marxist theory. The possibility of backward development of human society or a separate part of it, a people or a country, is entirely possible. In his time, K. Marx wrote regarding events in France in the middle of the XIX century: 'A whole people, believing that they had accelerated their progressive movement through revolution, suddenly find themselves transported back into a dead era...' This is exactly what happened to the peoples of Russia at the end of the XX century. Such backward movements of history are possible also in ideological life, when a new theoretical system is for some time pushed aside by an old one, more primitive and hindering social development. A classic example of this event is in the Roman Empire in the II century AD. By this time, Christianity was already the dominant religion. But Emperor Julian, who earned the nickname the Apostate, subjected the new religion and its convinced supporters to persecution and tried to revive paganism. There were immediately a large number of recent theorists and practitioners of 'real Christianity' who renounced their convictions and engaged in the 'revival' of dying pagan traditions and persecutions of their more steadfast comrades. Only two years passed and Christianity again became the dominant force, with whose determining spiritual influence the next millennium of history of the Old World is connected.
Marxism is currently experiencing a period similar to that of Christianity during the time of Julian the Apostate. Such a situation is not the result of deficiencies or peculiarities of its theory, but the result of class struggle."
... At the June Plenum of the Central Committee in 1957, the short period of balance in the class struggle in the USSR, which had lasted since 1953, ended. The period of restoration of capitalism in our country began. It proceeded relatively slowly and 'peacefully'...
I don't know about the first book, but in Piskun's book everything looks real. All those repressed were mostly "degenerate personalities," party members who abused their position, supporters of Trotsky. One of the prerequisites for victory in the Second World War was that Stalin managed to remove all traitors ready to surrender to the fascists in order to share power with them in the USSR.
In general, in my opinion, only Lenin and Stalin were real. In terms of loyalty to communism. This is also stated in the book. The book also says that the experiment with socialism ended in success. The economy flourished, depending on the state. But unfortunately, Stalin had no worthy successor and Khrushchev and his circle seized power. Generally, thinking about this whole topic gets creepy. It pisses me off how f...king mercantile and selfish all these officials and other bureaucrats are. And yet it could have been awesome...
Here is another cool book "I.V. Milonov. Communism - the bright future of humanity," but it's more like a small journalistic brochure. It has few pages. It says that, like, class struggle will continue forever until these classes no longer exist. Under communism, there are no classes.
It seems to me that communism will definitely be in the future.
I have one more theory. After all, man is basically an animal. Although today they deny the existence of natural selection in society, it seems to me that capitalism creates exactly those conditions in which one has to survive. In the end, the strongest survives—that is, the one who has more strength and cunning to earn money. Selection has changed its forms. Society chooses capable people for obtaining profit.
