What was life like for workers in the Soviet Union?

What was life like for workers in the Soviet Union?

Wake up, go to work, have dinner, go to sleep.
Park, opera, theatre, social life on weekends.
You know, wage slavery.

I guess they had two things going for them:

Overall the USSR didn't do very well. It started very bad, with Russia being a failing state, the war with Japan, the Great War (WW1), the Civil War, the Polish and Finnish wars, the Patriotic War (WW2), and so on.
And while progress was fast, as it often is with a totalitarian government brute forcing construction of structure and infrastructure, they started so bad that it still didn't result in too good of an outcome. And of course the last two decades were just stagnation and decline, failure to adapt and join the global market, losing China, and dissolution.

I would not want to be a soviet worker.

horrible, people worked 100 hour weeks and 2 million people were sent to the gulags every week
it took 10 years to get a job, workplaces had cameras everywhere, no airconditioning or insulation, people murdered each other constantly, most of the soviet budget went to making stalin portraits to put in workplaces, each had atleast 50 of them
whenever somebody built a factory on their own (cause that's how capitalism works) it'd be seized by the gov't
the gov't didn't actually build anything, it just waited till people made buildings and roads out of free enterprise and take it

the USSR was a literal paradise, they had more leisure time, food and better working conditions than all other countries combined

complete shit.

The Soviets achieved all their major goals in the war against Finland while the Finns were the ones to open negotiations for a Peace Treaty: ^ )

t., Trotter, William R. The Winter War: The Russo–Finnish War of 1939–40

What were the goals of the war?

The Soviets wanted to expand their borders near Leningrad due to the fear of Germany using the Finnish territory as a spring-board for an offensive into the city and northern Soviet union.

It's easy to argue however, that Soviet policies towards Finland were self-defeating and helped ensure that the Finnish assisted the Germans in the Continuation war.

Argue whatever, it was obviously a tactical Soviet success unlike what the picture implies. The Finns just managed to repulse one clumsy offensive which delayed the surrender of their territory by a month.

middle class and low alienation for normies
mentally hard for people with different opinions

An old Russian saying regarding working in the Soviet Union is,

"They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work."

It was a joke. The only reason the Soviet Union lasted as long as it did was because it milked the hell out of their satellite states through loans those countries took out for industrialization.

Also, man, people are here talking about the Russo-Finnish War as if it were some kind of success?

lol

It was because of the massive failure of the Russo-Finnish War that Hitler thought the Soviet Union was weak enough to break their non-aggression pact and invade.

kys

This. Implying that the USSR, for all of its inefficiencies, didn't actually have real economic power and progress is ridiculous. You don't get to be #2 in GDP per capita, military superpower, and centre of science and learning by pretending to work.

The USSR was the biggest threat the west had ever faced, and at the same time a complete shithole were no one worked and everyone was drunk and hungry.

t. shill

hows that fascism goingfor you kiddo?

Nice revisionism pal. It's well know that 3/4 of the URSS popolation was in the gulag at any given time

There are probably Republicans that unironically believe this.

Or maybe even post-ironically believe this.

its like the old east german saying: half the population was in prison, the other half were prison guards

???

There were workers. Do you know what being a worker is like? It's like that.

I think he means before 1953