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1. Yogthos (yogthos@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 23:09:47 UTC Yogthos

   #OTD in 1922, The Soviet Union was Created! It remains one of mankind's greatest achievements.

   Here is a 🧵 with some of the highlights.

   • Yogthos (yogthos@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 23:09:40 UTC Yogthos

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     In 1987, people in the USSR could retire with pension at 55 (female) and 60 (male) while receiving 50% of their wages at a at minimum. Meanwhile, in USA the average retirement age was 62-67 and the average (not median) retiree household in the USA could expect $48k/yr which comes out to 65% of the 74k average (not median) household income in 2016:

     https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/1994/94B09_66_englp2.pdf
     https://www.cbsnews.com/news/could-you-get-by-on-the-average-americans-retirement-income/

   • Yogthos (yogthos@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 23:09:41 UTC Yogthos

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     USSR averaged 22 days of paid leave in 1986 while USA averaged 7.6 in 1996:

     https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/1994/94B09_66_englp2.pdf
     https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs.t05.htm

   • Yogthos (yogthos@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 23:09:42 UTC Yogthos

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     Declared the US apartheid campaign against their own black citizens were genocide.
     https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we_charge_genocide_petition

   • Yogthos (yogthos@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 23:09:42 UTC Yogthos

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     USSR moved from 58.5-hour work weeks to 41.6 hour work weeks (-0.36 h/yr) between 1913 and 1960:

     https://books.google.com/books?id=x8JYjwEACAAJ

     https://b-ok.cc/book/2669908/77497f

   • Yogthos (yogthos@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 23:09:43 UTC Yogthos

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     Quality of nutrition improved after the Soviet revolution, and the last time USSR had a famine was in 1940s.

     By 1983, they had become completely food sovereign and eating better than Americans (according to the CIA)

     https://www.scribd.com/document/430076844/CIA-RDP84B00274R000300150009-5-pdf

   • Yogthos (yogthos@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 23:09:43 UTC Yogthos

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     USSR built solar power plants as early as 1930!

   • Yogthos (yogthos@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 23:09:44 UTC Yogthos

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     USSR doubled life expectancy in just 20 years. A newborn child in 1926-27 had a life expectancy of 44.4 years, up from 32.3 years thirty years before. In 1958-59 the life expectancy for newborns went up to 68.6 years. the Semashko system of the USSR increased lifespan by 50% in 20 years. By the 1960's, lifespans in the USSR were comparable to those in the USA:

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union

     https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB5054/index1.html

   • Yogthos (yogthos@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 23:09:45 UTC Yogthos

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     USSR provided free education to all citizens resulting in literacy rising from 33% to 99.9%:

     http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PubEdUSSR.htm

     http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/anglosov.htm
     
     http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000013/001300eo.pdf

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likbez

   • Yogthos (yogthos@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 23:09:45 UTC Yogthos

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     Soon after formation, adult education schools popped up in every town and every village.

   • Yogthos (yogthos@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 23:09:46 UTC Yogthos

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     Russia went from a backwards agrarian society where people travelled by horse and carriage to being the first in space in the span of 40 years. Russia showed incredible growth after the revolution that surpassed the rest of the world:

     https://wid.world/document/soviets-oligarchs-inequality-property-russia-1905-2016/

     https://wid.world/document/appendix-soviets-oligarchs-inequality-property-russia-1905-2016-wid-world-working-paper-201710/

   • Simbionte (santiago@mastodon.uy)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 23:10:08 UTC Simbionte

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     @yogthos the GDP plot is very interesting. It shows a downward trend in the 90s and after that, upwards again emulating the soviet era, any ideas to which historical events is that caused by?

   • Yogthos (yogthos@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 23:10:09 UTC Yogthos

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     GDP took off after socialism was established and then collapsed with the reintroduction of capitalism: