/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2171729
Oh you with this fucking chart. Russia took a hit when reorganizing economy, but the high point of GDP in this chart was never there.

Quality of life was always shitty in USSR even though the GDP numbers might show you differently.

Let's take a small (personal) example of how this GDP number was created (using ~88 dollar value here). If I were lucky I could buy a bicycle from the shop. It cost 110 roubles or by official exchange rate ~$130. This official $130 was recorded in GDP, you are showing there, but it really didn't matter as exchanging rubles to dollars was impossible in other places as black market and there the 110 rubles would have bought you 11$. The bike was so shitty, that no one in the world would have bought it for $130.

All the prices were skewed like that. The big drop happened, when Soviet Union went to freely convertible currency.

Adding a picture, that shows some indicators of living standard. Average person lived in cramped apartment. Telephones were a luxury and very few people had a car.