It's almost ten years since the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the founding of Russia. This is a very complicated and uncontrollable process, which means great division. A huge empire fell, and Russia rose in chaos. The disintegration of the Soviet Union brought serious social and economic chaos to Russia. Russia tried to establish western-style democracy, destroyed everything with socialist and planned colors, and finally threw itself into the embrace of so-called neo-liberalism. This is the victory of capitalism over socialism.
In order to build a new liberal model, Russia proposed to completely privatize the state-owned enterprises of the former Soviet Union. This privatization process is an unprecedented shameless plunder of national wealth. The gangsters exercised economic control over various industries and the most profitable oil, gas and steel enterprises in the world at a very low cost.
After some private robberies, the Russian state owns less than 10% of assets, which makes it more difficult to stimulate the production system. This has also created the possibility for the emergence of Russian millionaires, and the living standard of most Russians is much worse than that of the Soviet Union. Russia is one of the richest countries in the world. 199 1 year, the income ratio of the richest 10% and the poorest 10% in Russia is 4: 1, and by 20 10, the gap will widen to 4 1.
Russia has become the tenth largest power in the world. But its average annual GDP is less than 1 trillion euros, ranking behind Spain. Russia has lost the independence of food supply, 50% of its food is imported, and many cultivated land no longer grows crops. Compared with 199 1 year, in 2009, the calorie intake of Russians decreased by one third and the milk intake by half.
The existence of a strong middle class is necessary and vital for the normal operation of capitalist countries, but Russia lacks this aspect. Russia also has no relevant laws to protect and encourage entrepreneurs to invest. In 2006, the actual average salary, per capita income, pension, student scholarships, etc. Both are much lower than 199 1. .
Because of the deterioration of public health conditions and insufficient public health investment, Russia began to face a serious population crisis from 199 1. 1993, the population of Russia was1489,000, while in 2009, the population of Russia was only14190,000. According to the survey of Russian population agencies, from 2008 to 2025, the population will decrease by 1 1 10,000.
Russia's aging population is also very serious. At present, more than 17% of the population is over 60 years old, but what is more serious is that12.5 million Russians have no labor force, 6 million people take drugs, and there are more than 4 million street children. The enrollment rate of children is only 25%.
According to the report of Gynecology Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, the death rate of Russian population is 1.5 times of the birth rate, and the birth rate is obviously insufficient. On average, each woman has only 1.49 children, which is lower than the fertility level of the world 1.6 children. 70% of Russian children are born with diseases, and 18% of women of childbearing age are infertile.
Russia's social security system has been seriously damaged. In 2009, Russia's expenditure on social security accounted for 4.25% of its GDP, while that of western countries accounted for 8% to 10%.
The height of Russians has also decreased by 1.5cm, and 15% of the young people who joined the army are malnourished. The real unemployment rate in society is around 25%.
All these data show the decline of living standards in Russian society.
As we have seen, the transition from the socialist model to the capitalist model has brought serious consequences to Russia's economy, politics and society.
In a crisis, someone always loses and someone always wins. A few Russians benefited from this process, because they accumulated a lot of wealth in a short time, and the interests of countless people were harmed. "
This article comes from a western newspaper, and the author tries to summarize the history of the Soviet Union in the past 20 years. It praised the disintegration of the Soviet Union and Russia's embrace of neo-liberalism as "the victory of the capitalist system over the socialist system", but also frankly admitted that "the transformation from the socialist model to the capitalist model has brought serious consequences to Russia's economy, politics and society"; In the process of privatization, gang criminals carried out "unprecedented brazen robbery" on state-owned wealth, creating a group of Russian multimillionaires; Russian society is highly polarized. "At 199 1, the income ratio of the richest 10% and the poorest 10% in Russia was 4: 1, but by 20 10, the gap was widened to 4/kloc-0. Most Russians have fallen into a much worse standard of living than in the Soviet era, and so on.
This is the case in the Soviet Union, and so is the case in Eastern European countries.
We often say that practice is the only criterion for testing the truth. What does this long-term comprehensive practice standard tell us? Isn't it an objective truth that socialism proposed by Marx in Das Kapital and Manifesto of Producers' Party must replace capitalism? Can't we talk about Mao Zedong's foresight and truth about the class and class struggle in socialist society and the danger of capitalist restoration?
In the historical development of capitalism, those who go against the historical laws can successfully restore the capitalist "paradise" in the Soviet Union for a while, but in the end they only end up as proletarian and socialist traitors!
History is a mirror.