How did the general standard of living change during his rule?
Dramatic decline for anyone who wasn't a government official
>>1263423
being a government official during stalin's regime was a 50/50 chance of ending up with a bullet in your head
>>1263423
In fact, almost the opposite. Standards improved greatly though they were (necessarily) substandard compared to the already advanced capitalist nations of the time.
>>1263430
and you were still better of then everyone else
Why do people keep posting altered pictures of young Stalin? He didn't look like a hipster, but a typical flat faced Georgian mountain man.
>>1263693
His hair is still pretty olev tho.
There was economic growth due to new technology though it was probably lower than it could have been due to the USSR's closed society.
>>1263693
Not everyone is as poor as you.
>>1263693
Even this photo is altered. We gotta keep posting these until they become the new meme.
It improved greatly for the people who was able to dodge the repressions and survive all of his shit.
>>1263886
this skin makes him look cooler tb h
>>1264331
Wasn't it smallpox?
>>1263693
