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Why the USSR was a country of sellers. Oleg Makarenko • Russia today Posting in CHAT: Russia If you put a Soviet engineer in a time machine from Brezhnev in 1978 to modern Russia, he will decide that we have already built communism. I can say this with such confidence because similar experiments were already carried out in the late Soviet Union. Ordinary planes then served as a time machine, which transported some Soviet citizens to developed capitalist countries, giving them the opportunity to compare. I quote, for example, from the diary of Anatoly Chernyaev, who then worked in the international department of the CPSU Central Committee: November 20, 1979. From November 5th to 12th I was in West Germany. The main feeling that is still depressing is that we are behind, incredibly behind capitalism. And nothing (in America even “blacks were lynched”) no longer justifies this delay of ours, and nothing can be considered as our economic and social advantages. After all, Germany was also wiped off the face of the earth. And their salary is 2500-3500 marks (even at the exchange rate it is more than 1000 rubles), they have six weeks of vacation for the worker, they have “iron battalions of the proletariat” get into their cars in the morning, go to work, and go home in the evening: they have every third German should have a car. Their roads are such that if you put a cup filled to the brim on the seat, not a drop will spill at a speed of 160 km. They have no division: the center is the province, just as there are no “country roads” and secondary roads, there is no difference between a village and a city either in the sense of well-being or in the sense of comfort. . This is incredibly offensive and still incomprehensible. In the comments yesterday they provided links to short videos of two stores, foreign and Soviet. Here is an ordinary American supermarket in 1971 (video): And here is a Soviet store from the 1984 film “The Blonde Around the Corner” (video): The store was very good at that time, because it was located in Moscow, and not in Krasnovishersk, for example, where the stores were much more modest. However, the contrast with the capitalist market - both American and modern Russian - is striking. Without revealing the plot of the plot, I will note that the film “The Blonde Around the Corner” is built on contrast. On the one hand, there is a scientist and astrophysicist who is poorly adapted to life. On the other hand, there is the shopkeeper, the mistress of life, the rich and influential person with good connections. In the Soviet Union, sellers were truly the highest caste. I refer those who are nostalgic to the cycle of stories by Svyatoslav Loginov “My Supermarkets” (link), where he tells how he worked in a Leningrad supermarket on Lunacharsky Avenue. In short: the film “The Blonde Around the Corner” even embellishes reality a little. This creates a fun contrast. Neo-communists have terrible contempt for the service industry; They use the words “coder”, “manicurist” and “taxi driver” as curse words, and by the word “coder” in context they can mean both an entrepreneur with a “fruit and vegetable” pavilion and a saleswoman who works in this pavilion. Despite this, in Soviet At that time, an ordinary seller had an immeasurably higher status than now, without even possessing a fraction of the professionalism of current sellers. Now we can expect that the seller knows perfectly well the entire assortment of his store, sometimes consisting of several thousand items, can give the buyer good advice and knows how to maintain a relaxed “small conversation”, thereby creating a comfortable atmosphere for visitors. Sometimes our expectations are not met, but still the average capitalist salesman is very good, and in the Soviet Union the average salesman was so bad that in the 1990s, when hiring people in stores, they even made a special restriction: “without work experience.” in Soviet business." At first glance, this is a paradox. Communists don't like salespeople, but in advanced socialism there are salespeople who have an absurd amount of money, power and influence compared to, for example, engineers. Capitalists respect and love sellers, but a seller in a capitalist world is an ordinary worker with a regular salary, who has to work hard and responsibly and who does not have Soviet bonuses like relationships with important people or the ability to steal. The answer lies in the fundamental difference between capitalism and socialism. Under capitalism, everything is based on work that is useful to society. Anyone who produces useful goods or services receives money from customers and lives well. For example, under capitalism, an engineer who produces kits of parts for assembling radios makes a good living - provided, of course, that these kits are good enough for customers to vote for them with their money. Under socialism, everything is based on the redistribution of other people's labor and other people's money. Anyone who distributes “fairly” what others have done lives well. For example, under socialism there is a good life for the saleswoman who controls the flow of scarce goods by selling them through the back door to those who are willing to pay for special access to such goods. As we see, real life did not obey Kumach’s slogans, according to which in the Soviet Union labor was valued above all else. This is understandable: if you protect the worker, as is done under capitalism, inequality will arise - the one who works well naturally becomes richer than the one who works little or poorly. The fight against this natural inequality, that is, against “hatred of the exploiters,” as grandfather Lenin said, is the basis of all communism. At the same time, as history proves, the socialists’ fight against inequality is hopeless: if capitalism can be called an uneven distribution of surplus, then socialism is an uneven distribution of needs. Under capitalism, people envy sports cars and private jets, and under socialism, people envy fashionable jeans and imported cigarettes. So, the Soviet Union was not a country of labor, but a country of sellers, that is, a country of distribution of profits. It diverges a little from traditional myths, but that’s normal - we generally have terrible confusion with terms. Instead of ending the post, I'll point out some less discussed facts. Firstly, “social Darwinism” and “socialism” are words of the same root. It is under socialism that poverty and over-regulation often create conditions where the weakest members of society are pushed to the brink of survival. Secondly, social programs, on the contrary, have nothing to do with socialism. The payment of pensions, the distribution of benefits and free healthcare are a natural consequence of the wealth of a society. Feudalism, monarchy, socialism, capitalism, slave system... if the society is rich and stable, then the poor receive help from the treasury. Who distributes it - the king, the general secretary or the president - does not matter. A strong economy means high pensions and quality healthcare. Weak economy - pensions on the brink of survival and free healthcare at the level of a “thermometer and bright green”. At the same time, capitalist countries are much richer than socialist countries, therefore there is more social security in capitalist countries. Again, we could see this with our own eyes throughout the history of the Soviet Union, when capitalist workers who came to us to admire the communist paradise looked with horror at the deplorable situation of the Soviet proletariat. Oleg Makarenkohttps://dzen.ru Source link Source link