"In the fifty years between 1913 (the peak of pre-war production) to 1963, despite two world wars, foreign intervention and civil war between other calamities, the total industrial production grew more than 52 times. The corresponding figure for the U.S. was less than six times, while Britain barely doubled its production. In other words, in a few decades, thanks to the planned economy, the Soviet Union was transformed from a backward agricultural economy in the second most important power in the world, with a powerful industrial base, highly educated and more scientific that the U.S. and Japan combined
"The strides ahead of Soviet industry in the 30's coincided with the great crisis and depression in the capitalist world, accompanied by massive unemployment and chronic poverty . Between 1929 and 1933 American industrial production fell by 48.7%. The American League National Research estimated the number of unemployed in March 1933 at 17.92 million. In Germany there were more than six. These comparisons alone graphically show the superiority of the planned economy on the anarchy of capitalist production
-In a population that grew by 15 percent the number of technicians was multiplied by 55
-The number of full-time student for six
-hospital beds almost tenfold, children attending day care centers by 1,385
-The number of doctors per 100,000 inhabitants was 205, compared with 170 in Italy and Austria, 150 U.S., 144 in West Germany, 110 in Britain, France and the Netherlands and 101 in Sweden
-Life expectancy has doubled, and infant mortality was reduced to a
ninth-In 1972, the number of doctors had increased from 135,000 to 484,000 and the number of hospital beds from 791,000 to 2,224,000.
"In the postwar period, no Marshall Plan aid, the USSR made huge progress on all fronts. Thanks to the nationalized economy and planning, the Soviet Union quickly rebuilt its shattered industries, with growth rates of over 10%. Along with the U.S., the USSR emerged from the war as a world superpower. "The history of the world does not know anything," says Alec Nove.
-Back in 1953, the USSR had built a stock of 1.3 million machine tools of all types, double the number it had before the war. Between 1945 and 1960, increased steel production of 12.25 to 65 million tonnes of oil, from 19.4 to 148, and the coal, from 149.3 to 513. Between 1945 and 1964, the Soviet national income grew by 570%, compared to 55% in U.S.
Let us not forget that the U.S. emerged from the war with all its industries intact and two thirds of the world's gold in their vaults. In fact, had benefited greatly from the war effort, and as a result were able to impose their domination throughout the capitalist world.
-The Massachusetts Cambridge Engineering Research Association described the Soviet natural gas industry, which has doubled production in less than ten years, as a "spectacular success story" (Financial Times, 01/11/1985).
-In the USSR, one in three workers were skilled, and a large proportion of children of workers had access to college. The total number of students in technical education and higher quadrupled between 1940 and 1964. In 1970 there were 4.6 million students, 257,000 engineers. In comparison, the U.S. had 50,000 graduates in this field (see, all a "case" the development of the USSR, right?)
-rents were fixed at around 6% of revenue last month and increased in 1928. A small flat in Moscow, until recently (these data are from an article written over 15 years) cost about 2,000 pesetas. per month, including gas, electricity, telephone and hot water. A kilo of bread cost about £ 40. and, like sugar and most food products, price increases seen in 1955.
-Prices of meat and dairy were last increased in 1962
"The Financial Times (2/18/1986) wrote that" the development of wasteland and a dreadful climate Siberia in the last 15 years is an engineering feat that even in scale and difficulty of building the Panama Canal. "
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