Absurd characterization that relies on homogenizing the whole era and ignoring the enormous abundance successes of Khrushchev
Martin Malia on Soviet economies: "Contrary to the declared goals of the regime, it was the opposite of a system of production to create abundance for the eventual satisfaction of the needs of the population; it was a system of general squeeze of the population to produce capital goods for the creation of industrial power, in order to produce ever more capital goods with which to produce still further industrial might, and ultimately to produce armaments."View quoted post on X
