[lbo-talk] Black (and Asian) in the USSR

[andie nachgeborenen]

Doug is exactly right. When it came to food, shelter, education, and medical care for all, the USSR did great. When the contrast classwas civil war or foreign invasion, and the population could remember life under the Tsar, the regime was quite popular. When those things came to taken for granted, andf people longed to travel and enjoy a more consumerist life, then the system lost support, especially among the middle classes and the intelligentsia. jks

Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:Michael Pugliese wrote:


> 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
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