How do you wank Russia post Soviet Union?

They didnt get to keep all that wealth when they left office. Meanwhile in the robber republic you serve the state, take the kickbacks, chose early retirement and then leave the country hoping you never get to taste Polonium.

They generally left office when they died. Putin won't take it with him when he dies either.
 
They generally left office when they died. Putin won't take it with him when he dies either.

Stalins family didn have much of a good life after he died (it's not like they had a good life while he was still alive), khrushchev and his family pretty much ended in poverty and everyone after him died in office.
 
Stalins family didn have much of a good life after he died (it's not like they had a good life while he was still alive), khrushchev and his family pretty much ended in poverty and everyone after him died in office.


Stalin didn't give a damn about his family, Khuzchev was ousted and everyone else died in office.
 
China had its revolution much later and so the Communist Party there didn't have near as much time to wreck the economy as the USSR did. There were people left alive who remembered the time before the revolution. It took decades of Communism before the USSR sunk that low.

Mao wrecked the economy far more than Stalin did. Stalin actually liked administering things, and promoted industrialization and urban infrastructure. Mao did that in the 1950s, but then changed his mind and came up with the Great Leap Forward ("let's all farm the subsoil!") and the Cultural Revolution ("who needs education?"). Mass starvation under Mao was a result of incompetence; under Stalin, it was deliberate genocide in Ukraine, and once Stalin decided the Ukrainians had had enough, there was magically enough food for everyone who wasn't deported to the gulags.
 
Mao wrecked the economy far more than Stalin did. Stalin actually liked administering things, and promoted industrialization and urban infrastructure. Mao did that in the 1950s, but then changed his mind and came up with the Great Leap Forward ("let's all farm the subsoil!") and the Cultural Revolution ("who needs education?"). Mass starvation under Mao was a result of incompetence; under Stalin, it was deliberate genocide in Ukraine, and once Stalin decided the Ukrainians had had enough, there was magically enough food for everyone who wasn't deported to the gulags.


China also had something of a mercantile tradition. Overseas Chinese tend to do well for a reason. The Russians.. not so much. Also there were quite a few people born pre-revolution who could remember pre-Maoist China and use that experience. Almost all people who lived in Pre-Communist Russia were already dead.
 
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That is a good idea.

But Gorbachev tried it and failed - why? Because people were searching for alcohol instead of working. The decrease by 25 percent caused a large decrease of industrial and agricultural production.

It was also implemented pretty harshly (as in Soviet troops directly going to vineyards and tearing up centuries-old vines that had been used to make wines for the Imperial court in Tsarist times) so it provoked a lot of resentment.

Not to mention the problems that emerged when people started manufacturing bootleg alcohol of terrible quality so that poisonings and such spiked dramatically, seriously, people went blind drinking low-quality bootleg alcohol in the Soviet Union.

In short, it was really not a well-executed policy. It was actually one of the few times where Gorbachev was too heavy-handed and bloody-minded in implementing his reforms rather than the opposite.
 
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