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>>18194582
>bizarre beliefs about the socialist economy.
Economics 101 for you is bizzare beliefs about socialist economy. 99% of economists will say the same if not harsher words. Socialist economy doesn't make sense in theory and it did not make sense in real life, it's true that communists wouldn't be communists if only they knew how economy works.
>Soviet agriculture was a step down from Tsarist agriculture
Soviet agriculture was not a step down from Tsarist agriculture, the entire Russian empire was focused on producing grain and was consuming little of it, the Tsarist agriculture is the definition of bad. Dozens of millions of people living in poverty and exporting low-value goods. The Russian empire exported 70 million of tonns of grain per annum in 1911-1913 (according to a Soviet 1930 book on history of Soviet agriculture). For comparison, the USSR was producing 161 millions of tonns of grain per annum in 1981-1985 (according to FAOSTAT 2005). By that point the population of the USSR was around 80 million people larger than the population of the empire in 1913 but in the empire around 80% of people were living in villages.