Was life in the Russian Empire better than the Soviet Union?

Was life in the Russian Empire better than the Soviet Union?

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yes.
life in africa was better than the soviet union.

No, but that is a result of time not because the Soviets were "good". Life in virtually every country gets better over time as technology advances.

No. RE was a rural shithole with one of the lowes life expectancy in the Europe. Communism has greatly imroved the situation

technology is irrelevant.

The literature was better, and there were several waves of liberal reform (and counter reform, but it was still getting liberalized) before the revolution.

>in the Europe
russia is in the asia, sweetcheeks.

>was life ever good for slav[e]s
lmao probably not

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Not for the People in the Holodomor

Then go and shit on the streets and die of aids, nigger.

aids came from technology.

poor slavs tho

life under tsar
>rural shithole

life under communist
>proletarian shithole

life under capitalist
>still a fucking shithole

Russia has always been a shitpot for human life. First it was peasant slavery and then it was forced labour in communism.

get off your computer then faggot and go live in the woods

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The only difference is that russians can now leave their country.

no, aids came from niggers fucking monkeys

the mark of intelligence is being able to entertain an idea without having to agree with it.

no, that was ebola.

USSR
>Nearly everyone is white but ruled by Jews
Africa
>Surrounded by Niggers but at least no Jews

>he thinks the ussr had white people
after the bolshevik revolution, the jews outbred the russians.
today's russians are just jews.

No, life was always shit in Russia

Russian Empire:
> small group of elites who have all the power and perks
> everyone else is peasant, with no rights

Soviet Union:
> small group of elites who have all the power and perks
> everyone else is peasant, with no rights

Russian "Republic"
> small group of elites who have all the power and perks
> everyone else is peasant, with no rights

If you were a moble it was good. If you were a Tsar, or a relative of the ruling dynasty it was littelar paradise on earth. If you were a peasent you were fucked

>Life in virtually every country gets better over time as technology advances

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Why we should ban American IPs, summarized in 2 posts

Fuck no Russia was a shitty pre-industrial agrarian feudal society. That’s why it went full communist, because shit was so awful and people so uneducated. Soviet Union at least industrialized itself, but killed a few million people in the process. Still couldn’t properly put food on their shelves.

Please wash your pants

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russians are subhumans regardless of their ideology

>pre-industrial
How did it have a proleteriat then, retard

>posts a pic that has 100% nothing to do with the statement he's responding to

depends are you a juden in this scenario

because i tell the truth i should be banned.
go back to social media, non-white.

Ukranians on the other hand...

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I'm sure in the sugar drunk mystery meat you call a brain you think you said the truth
But the rest of us should not suffer for your stupidity

>he's still posting

No, but they would have had a brighter future if the soviet union hadn't come and they'd have chosen literally anything else.

>muh food

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>>Life in virtually every country gets better over time as technology advances

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My thought exactly, I can't talk with you the same way other humans can't talk with animals
Cya, Mutt

>he did it again
change of architecture has nothing to do with quality of life.

>croat calling others mutts
wew, jew.

>Europe
kek

>change of architecture has nothing to do with quality of life

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Are you disputing that russian was an underdeveloped shithole? Because it was, and the revolution was formed around peasants and early workers that were pissed over the war and conditions.

>he's still doing it

Q. What did communists use before candles?
A. Electricity

I honestly am puzzled by russia, WHY NOT JUST STOP DRINKING

It makes no sense, the russian gov tried a multitude of attempts to restrict alcohol usage. They made booze more taxed, then some illegal, then they banned illegal sales. Then people went on and tried to use secondary alcoholic drinks, like perfumes. Which they also struggled with.

It just makes absolutely zero sense. You are a russian. You can choose to try to build SOMETHING up. You have plenty of nature, you can just probably go to your village and take care of animals or whatever. But...every single time they simply choose booze. All of this effort, hard work, done for booze. Drugs and other crap. I mean why.

Hard work towards a business will mean money. Money means family support. Why not simply do that. Nothing from the jewry is telling them to drink booze. Basically all of the russian state media is against booze is it not? And yet the russian still persist in boozing himself up.

I keep thinking that perhaps putin is not entirely that much anti white. Just kinda fed up with his boozers?

>he thinks russians can just stop being barbarians

>it's just different
>it's progress

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Where is this picture? Is that in Nizhny?

Yeah, just be yourself and do business bro

Why are you lying

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Based.

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Imagine being this retarded

>nooooo da gommunism bad u retarted

>Rural shithole yet somehow has massive proleteriat
>Rural shithole but can somehow arm 7 million soldiers, the largest military in the world at the time
>Rural shithole but has a domestic airplane production (which was destroyed by Bolsheviks since Sikorskys engineers were deemed too Bourgouis, what with them having a working brain and all)
>Rural shithole somehow can build the longest railway in the world

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those stats are disputed are they not? From official russian sources. I am just being honest here dude, the russian gov I like, it does not seem that anti white to me anymore. Its just that the Russians themselves seem to wish to keep remaining subhuman for some other reason.

Its just such a shame man, so much life and fun can be had if they just ditch the booze.

czar owned the distilleries

do they still own them today?

The abysmal AIDS stats are from the same source
So either disawov those or realize that Russian Zoomers prefer Beer and Chips over Vodka and Semechki

Yes, the what has happened to the west now happened to pre-(((commie))) Russia, same with pre-nazi Germany, just both countries had different outcomes.

In Russia the whites Europeans lost

In Germany the white Europeans won

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Based Serb

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Everyone thinks you're a giant faggot Billy

Technologically? No.
Life span? Equal.
Mobility? No.
Social Mobility? Yes, but mostly in allowances for oddities of person, not in class mobility like Marx likes to argue. You could be an odd fucker in the Empire, the Union didn't like anything that wasn't productive as the Commissar required.

>Russia was a shithole until the commies modernized it
Is unironically Soviet propaganda. The Empire made great strides during its final years. Development was inevitable.

Nigger, they were talking about statistics such as life expectancy and income.

This guy knows whats up

Life span equal? Lul

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Which great strides?

The Soviets concretely improved life expectancy, literacy rates, and, after ww2, quality of life drastically.

They still use Slav rockets for astronauts.

>Which great strides
Some strides which the Bolsheviks claimed as their own
The development of Magnitogorsk? Planned by the State Council of the Russian Empire in 1915. The irrigation of Central Asia? Started in 1901, by 1912 there were working excavators
>quality of life
They removed many lives too
WW2 would also have never have happened if it were not for Bolshevism being used by Hitler as a threat and get himself elected

Russia and Serbia and Slavs wouldn't exist if there wasn't communism.
Hitler was financed by USA and London to destroy Soviet Union and stop world communism from expanding and taking over the world and putting an end to world bankers and capitalism.
Remember that Hitler killed communist in Germany,USA financed Italian mafia to kill socialist in Italy,also in Spain,American and London war machine was doing whatever they could for the past 100 years to stop socialism
And now again they have a big problem with China

Nice try, Commie retard
Hitler got elected by using the USSR as a threat, without such a propaganda tool he would never stood a chance against any other demagogue
And why do you retards always assume that time would just freeze if the Russian Empire won WW1 (oh and let's not forget that Communists grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory, dooming us to become Western puppets before getting invaded by Germany)
A victorious Russian Empire could've just continue it's modernization and organize an intervention to crush any uppity Kraut bitch early (like they did a dozen times during the 19th Century, look up "The Gendarme of Europe")

throughout communism it did, today probably some oligarch with ties to kremlin does
also at this point it's part of their culture

I really wish the german empire would have won WW1 or at least a both sided end with honores.
That way it would have never allowed the red army to take controll of russia and monachry would ahve prevailed on the continent.
God knows what europe would look like today if it came that way.

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Even Putin stated that Russia had the fifth largest economy in the world before communism.

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very sad indeed

And was the second one during communism lol

Not if you only included Russia.

it wasnt pre-industrial, it was beginning to experience the industrial revolution.

The Russian Empire was not wealthy or technologically advanced, and participating in the War was a (fatal) mistake, but it was not remotely as terrible, looked at objectively, as either the Bolsheviks or sniggering Westerners often suggested.

Serfdom had already been abolished, and reform though slow was on the way. A reformed Russian Empire would have eventually become a semi-constitutional monarchy where the imperial household still have a lot of authority and power but most decision-making is reached by a combination of experts and elected officials.

Russia’s land and resources give the nation so much influence by default that even only partially reformed it would have been a formidable power.

On the international stage, a moderate Russia instead of a revolutionary Communist force would have taken the sails out of Nazi extremism. German revanchism might have risen anyway, but almost certainly with less fanaticism and with less severe consequences. No USSR also means no iron curtain, no communist China.

It’s a lot of hypotheticals but it’s quite likely that no USSR would have meant a much more gentle and gradual decolonization process. Instead of a sudden shattering during World War II, the British, French, Portuguese and Dutch Empires would have likely declined over centuries only gradually, and possibly without much violence or unpleasantness at all.

LOL (retarded)

Before the soviets people lived in abject poverty in Russia. The USSR took people that were india levels of poor and became a space faring global superpower. I'm pretty sure life in the USSR was actually better than it is in today's capitalist Russia. Like when was the last time you bought something made in Russia?

Since most of the threads and posts here come from Russians masquerading as Western vpns, you probably already know the answer, Komrade Memeflag.

>Before the soviets people lived in abject poverty in Russia.
After Soviets, people lived in abject poverty, with their country divided into over a dozen republics ruled by subhuman Oligarchs
>The USSR took people that were india levels of poor and became a space faring global superpower
Which the Empire would've become even sooner without the Bolshevik murder of scientists and engineer AKA Bourgeois Enterpreneurs
>I'm pretty sure life in the USSR was actually better than it is in today's capitalist Russia
Then you're a retard
>Like when was the last time you bought something made in Russia?
When was the last time you bought something made in the USSR?
Shit, when was the last time you bought something in the US, even supposedly American products like Iphones are made in China

based

it didn't, Lenin just tortured Marxism to make it fit a suitable narrative for Russian circumstances

> Everyone is white
Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan say hi

Based potatonigger

much of decolonization was the US forcing it on NATO countries (but to be fair that was a pre-emptive act to prevent said countries from falling into the Russian sphere of influence, it would be a bad look for the US to support colonialism openly while trying to court Third World countries. we should've just let Russia have 'em.)

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It did, you god damn retard
The rural peasants had to be murdered until they submited, Lenin called them counter-revolutionaries and other bullshit commie buzzwords
The Communist core came from cities like Petrograd, Moscow and surrounding area which had already industrialized

If the Russian Empire had no industry (which is literal Communist propaganda) then how could it field the largest military in the world and fight a modern war (requiring millions of cannon, rifle, munitions and other necessesities which only an industrial base can provide)
Stop parroting these idiotic propaganda points and, if you're Communist, stop supporting this shit ideology

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Russia would've been a thousand times better without Bolshevik "help"

based and Stavkapilled. This guy knows what's up and the reason why the war was launched in 1914. Another few years and Anglo-French investments in Russian industry and re-armament would have meant been the war truly would have ended the before the leaves fell.

It was life, not existence.

>we should've just let Russia have 'em
Not trying to justify forever war but the worry was (at least at first) that giving the USSR a free hand in the third world would eventually result in them gaining control over critical sea routes and natural resources and effectively use their control of those things (backed by their massive, nuclear-armed military) to force the West to comply with their demands, eventually resulting in either their Finlandization or their conversion into communist countries

Soviet Union proper was certainly much better than post soviet Russia. You could build a life in a countryside or a small town too, whereas now there is nothing but decay and rot in those places

All my grandparents had a good and prosperous life through labour, and my parents were given opportunities to develop their skills. If they lived now in that environment, all of them would be fucked.

>Economic stability both on personal and social level
>Stronger communal ties, less petty struggless over property
>No gender/migrant shit, strong nationalist rhetoric
>No obscure private powerholders like bankers
>Less pathology resulting from for-profit motifs
>Filtered media that tell you nice things, instead of trying to attract attention by tragedies

there was a red/brown aethetic and everyone was given medals for their participation in the community or the state. It was essentially a time where you were encouraged to do your best and achieve recognition based on your skills. Sounds familiar? It's basically a military system of management

BASED COMMIES

The Soviet Union had the 2nd largest nominal GDP from 1960-1985 and 3rd largest in 1990, 2nd largest per capita GDP 1980-1990.

eastern europe functioned properly only under Communism and slavs are incapable of democracy

communism collapses
>all people are like: yeah, we won't have to live in commieblocks anymore, now houses in the suburbs for everyone
>30 years passed
>pic related
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people genuinely believed things would be like in American movies just after several years

The USSR was an industrial powerhouse compared to germany. Why would the war be decided by a minuscule amount of materials being transported? Do you even know what it takes to move materials?

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