• Fair Fairy@thelemmy.club
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    1 day ago

    I disagree. Soviets were busy recovering from WW2 for decades while funding own allies. They were not in the position to splurge on non necessities.

    But even with that - they supplied entire population with oil, gas, electric no problems. Utilities barely cost anything even in modern russia

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      10 hours ago

      In the USSR, private plots owned by collective farm families, averaging 0.25 hectares in area, provided 30% of meat, vegetables and milk, 33% of eggs, and 59% of potatoes in 1979.

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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        10 minutes ago

        Bet the land was taken better care of when its a family that owns it compared to some minimum wage workers hired by a mega farm.