I'm doing a presentation on the soviet union for school soon and i would like to know all your opinions on this.

I've got: an over-bloated bureaucracy (which was prone to corruption), rural poverty (which is very unfair as basically all countries have rural poverty- difference is that some countries actually help these people), and a lacking light industry that led to economic dissatisfaction from the populace.

I might share the PowerPoint here for your feedback although its very small as its for a vocational exam that is only a few minutes

  • drone621@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I'm not certain that the huge expenditure on the arms race could have been avoided but it certainly didn't help the USSR economically.