Privilege in the Khrushchev-Brezhnev-Gorbachev era and its role in the collapse of the Soviet Union are examined in "Material Forces that Turn Socialism into Capitalism" at https://www.idcommunism.com/2023/04/material-forces-that-turn-socialism-into-capitalism.html. It argues from the data – at a high enough level that there is no need to go into dicey ratios. Marv tells us, "the Soviet data was often murky and inaccessible to researchers and, as is so frequently the case, was selectively drawn on..." and then he proceeds to draw his own selective picture.
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