• vga@sopuli.xyz
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    5 days ago

    These relative measures seem like not entirely honest. Did the GDP of USSR ever reach or pass UK’s? Growth is important of course in the high level, but for the common people absolute wealth probably means more.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      That’s a bit hard to directly measure as the USSR was focused on production, rather than maintaining a crumbling Empire like the UK was, so measuring GDP in both countries is difficult (state-driven economies also have difficulty with tracking GDP). We can look at increases in metrics and access to goods, though, which led to a doubling in life expectancy for Soviet citizens ans dramatic poverty reductions (outside of wartime).