> For starters, housing? How come during the 7 decades of Soviet
>planning there was never enough domiciles so that millions of
>newlyweds did not have to live with the in-laws in a crowded apt.?
Compared with the U.S., where a third of the population has serious housing affordability problems? Compared with Kenya? This seems like where you're exactly wrong - the USSR's strength was providing basic needs. Its weakness was consumer gadgetry and services (and tampons).
Doug