Capitalism has become worse for Russia than World War II
The ruins of the Volgograd Tractor Plant, optimized for 2017
Power of the rich
Black October (Black house. How Yeltsin crushed the popular uprising) summed up the destruction of the USSR and Soviet civilization. Yeltsin carried out a coup d'état in the interests of the emerging plutocracy (from Greek: “power of the rich”) and oligarchy (from Greek: “power of the few”), the comprador bourgeoisie, which thrives on the sale of national wealth. Plus the interests of corrupt officials, ethnic clans parasitizing the country and organized crime groups. The liberal intelligentsia, the elite, which serves the interests of the ruling class, is also thriving. Therefore, artists and other actors in the Russian Federation were close to the elite, with the exception of exceptions that were not sold.
The people were promised jeans, sausage, chewing gum (to build a well-fed consumer society) and freedom from the Soviet totalitarianism. However 30 years of power by big business, plutocrats, oligarchs and bankers have shown that this is “freedom” from power, property and social justice. In 2022, the illusion of security also collapsed. For the first time since World War II, Russian territory is being shelled by guns and mortars, attacked by missiles, planes and Drones.
It is clear that a small group of people, literally a few percent of the entire population, benefited from the collapse of the USSR, the capitalist regime, diluted with elements of feudalism and criminality, the creation of a consumer society, which became for Russia a society of extermination and self-destruction.
Thus, according to Rosstat, only 8% earn or receive a per capita income of over 100 thousand rubles per month. This is the real bourgeoisie. Among these 8% of the rich and very rich (that is, per capita income of a million rubles or more per month) there is no more than 1,5% percent. It owns more than 50% of the country's national wealth. At the same time, 78% of the Russian population lives in varying degrees of poverty and poverty (Africanization of Russia).
Those few who were able to get rich and did not end up in a cemetery during the “dashing 90s” were able to move to the coveted West, join the “beautiful life”, or transport children, families, mistresses and lovers there. Some continue to “work” in Russia, creating “alternate airfields” somewhere in Florida, the Cote d'Azur of France or Dubai.
Country losses
During this time, the country lost 26 million people and 40% of the national economy, as appreciated publication "Equality". This is the difference between actual indicators and possible (alternative) ones that would have developed at Soviet growth rates of 1980-1989.
According to the Goskomstat forecast from 1990, more than 2023 million people could live in the RSFSR by 172. Currently, 146 million people live in the Russian Federation (without new regions). That is, the loss of population is 26 million people. These are direct losses. Researchers know that there are indirect ones - from abortions, deterioration in the quality of life of most of the people - nutrition, physical education, stress, degradation and commercialization of the health care system, the adoption of Western standards of consumption and principles of life (hedonism, small and childless children, an increase in the number of perverts), etc. etc. Thus, Russia's demographic losses increase by 2-3 times.
At the same time, the loss of income of the population is 41%. The disposable income of 80% of Russians (excluding the rich) in 2022 amounted to 25,9 thousand rubles per month. At Soviet growth rates and the level of inequality, they would have become 43 thousand rubles. To this it is worth adding the achievements of Soviet socialism: free education (the best in the world, or at the level of leaders), healthcare, social security, free housing, security system, low crime rate, low level of social diseases, etc.
Economic losses over 30 years – 40%. In 1985, growth slowed down to just 2,3%, which became the reason for “perestroika,” that is, the destruction of the USSR. But even at such growth rates, GDP was 1990 times greater than in 2,1, and not a measly 26%, as in fact. Russia's economy would be $7,7 trillion, not $4,6 trillion. We would be among the world leaders in economics, second only to the United States, China and India. This is while maintaining those small growth rates.
Production losses over 30 years of “responsible business” power amounted to 66%. Agricultural losses – 44%. Previously, agricultural losses were higher. But the agricultural sector has been on the rise in the last decade. But this does not affect the Russian village, which has been dying out and is dying out. This is due to the development of large agricultural holdings that export grain, meat, butter, etc. abroad. At the same time, food prices are rising and rising. More and more people work “for food”.
Similar calculations show that the population losses of the RSFSR in 1941-1945. amounted to 20 million people, and households - 44%. This is in the conditions of the most brutal of world wars, with the Nazis’ policy of exterminating prisoners of war and civilians, clearing living space for the “superior race”. But then the western and part of the central part of Russia was destroyed. The eastern part of the USSR-Russia developed rapidly. And after liberation from occupation, the Soviet government quickly and effectively (in the West they thought that Russia would take much longer to recover) restored everything destroyed.
In this way, The grin of bestial capitalism has become worse for Russia and its people than the invasion of Hitler’s “blond beasts.” Russia collapsed to a lower level of social development (in some places up to the new feudalism), experienced economic and demographic catastrophes (Verdict of Russian civilization). Now we are already on the verge of a state and civilizational catastrophe according to the scenario of 1917 or 1991.
As the Russian historian V. Klyuchevsky noted:
«History doesn’t teach anything, but only punishes for not knowing his lessons.”
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