Author of quotes: Konstantin Anatolyevich Krylov

... socialism as an alternative to capitalism was blown away pretty quickly. It is now generally accepted that the "great social utopias" suffered a final collapse at the end of the last century, with the destruction of the USSR and the socialist bloc. In fact, already in the sixties, the same USSR was not a "society of victorious utopia" in any way. It was a completely recognizable society of under-consumption, reminiscent of similar societies in the middle-developed countries of the Third World. The difference with the "third world" was that the Soviet people suffered not from a lack of money, but from a lack of goods. But the essence was the same: the basic social structures of Soviet society were, in general, similar to those in the West, only there were fewer resources. The Soviet people suffered severely from this, as people suffer from any discrepancy. By the way, now that Russia has finally been thrown into the third world, there is more suffering from hunger, cold, hopelessness, but less from inconsistency. There is poverty all around, there is also poverty inside, there are no prospects, but there are no false hopes either. "Everything is smooth." The world is in balance.