5 year plan baby
There is a very good answer right here.
Officially, the poverty level in the Soviet Union for an urban family of four is about about 206 rubles a month, or $340. But Soviet authorities and academics readily admit that the figure, calculated in the 1960s, is outdated, and that it takes about 300 rubles a month to provide what the government calls ``minimum material security`` for a family of four.
Between 4 million and 5 million Soviet families fall below the formal poverty level, according to Soviet officials, and a full 20 percent of the population lives on less than 75 rubles per person a month.
``More than 43 million people are living in families with incomes of less than 75 rubles a month per person,`` said Leonid Kunelsky, chief of the economics department at the State Committee on Labor and Social Issues.
Eliminate poverty you said. .Yes they did try to kill poverty without actually solving the poverty problem.
But i am pretty sure the propaganda coming out of the USSR govt means you are sold already.
There is no state plan, however, for dealing with poverty, according to interviews with several Soviet officials. There is no government agency to which people in need can turn, and the word ``poverty`` is not even used in state documents.
The 5 year plan was successful to an extent but the price was astronomical. This is always the issue with socialism, no one accounts for the costs as its always someone else paying for it. The 5 year Plans created an effective production system, i will give you that, but at human expense. They were heavily bureaucratic and bureaucratic systems do not innovate. The one thing you forgot to mention though is corruption! the process was incredibly corrupt and bribery was the main focus here. You can ask other people, but socialist governments are incredibly corrupt without fail. I live in an ex Socialist country which Russia considers to be their 16th state and the damage socialism did the country, it's struggling to get out of it.
https://www.quora.com/How-corrupt-i...compared-to-the-Soviet-Union-under-Khrushchev
such attempts all eventually fail and were doomed to failure because no monopolistic government could reasonably be "in perfect competition with itself," which is how prices arise. Socialist utopia always ends in hyperinflation, you wonder why? visit East germany (even now) and then go to west germany and see the difference. DDR is still struggling big time from the effects of socialism, the reason why no refugees want to be resettled in DDR.
Not to mention, there was no freedom of press or citizens travelling outside of the USSR was banned.
You are lucky to live in Australia, but yes lets try to turn Australia into CCCP.
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