Библия Времени. Найди свое. Лим Ворд
First, America was not going to bombard the Soviet Union. If the US would like to do this, then, given the huge difference in the number of nuclear charges (2 in the USSR against 400 in the States in 1950), and the Union’s lack of reliable means of delivery, they would. However, American society is at least somewhat democratic. An ordinary citizen of the United States is not inclined to destroy a recent ally in the fight against the Axis of Evil, and this is his mood, somehow forced to accept the government.
…On March 19, 1945, Stalin makes territorial claims against Turkey. The main goal is the same as that of almost all Russian monarchs, up to the last of them, Nicholas II – Straits… Turkey immediately appeals for help to the United States and Britain. Somewhat later Turks’ anxiety will cause the High Port to join the NATO bloc.
All this undoubtedly aggravates relations between recent allies. The Soviet people do not want a new devastating war. The starving workers of agricultural enterprises, workers, employees, do not care about the Turkish Straits. But, quite well-fed Stalin, in this System of Government, the mood of ordinary people is not inclined to take into account. Yes, friends, it seems, only the Manhattan project puts a limit to ambitions, ascended to the top of the power of «the leader of all times and peoples».
This is so, but it is obviously not going to strike at, restoring its economy, within the limits set by the Yalta agreement, to the Soviet Union.
…The second. The number of agricultural workers in general does not decrease, and even increases, thanks to the return to the collective farms of demobilized soldiers. Expenses for the production of tanks, aircraft, etc. significantly reduced. Fighting is not ongoing. There is no data on large-scale drought. The amount of grain, as well as the consumers, in this case, remains the same. Only large-scale export of food to «friendly countries,» disregard for the interests of its own people for the sake of some remote «World Revolution» explains the large-scale post-war famine.
The side goal achieved by Dzhugashvili and his government in this way is the reduction of the thoughts of the soldiers, who in the last years of the war have learned to think independently, forming active communities, to thinking only about where to find more food.
…Crime has reached monstrous proportions; for the sake of salvation from starvation, usually law-abiding people, became thieves and bandits. The government encouraged the creation of subsidiary farms by institutions and enterprises, through which the survival of workers was carried out. On Leninsky Prospekt, in the courtyards of the houses there were sheds, in which cows mooed. Sometimes large cattle settled in basements, apartments, up to the third floor. Due to their vegetable gardens and livestock, the villagers also survived (100 million), who were removed from the rations, and in 30% of cases their collective farm paid nothing for their work. Untimely payment of agricultural (natural) tax, from which the families of the dead servicemen were not released, threatened with a large fine, or confiscation of livestock. A significant part of the salary was forcibly transferred to the State Loan bonds, and it was impossible to return this money, no matter how you argued that it was very hungry.
However, in January 1946, for propaganda purposes, the government arranged a decline in prices for bakery products, including in commercial stores; at a lack of the goods, it has led only to huge turns, broken windows and broken counters. Taking this into consideration, the state decided to withdraw the surplus money from the population, which happened during the monetary reform on December 22, 1947. One-to-one exchanged money on savings accounts, if the amount of the deposit did not exceed 3000 rubles, cash from wallets and zanachkets changed at the rate of ten old rubles for one new one. Simultaneously with the withdrawal of money, that is, by reducing their total weight by a factor of 2, 5, the card system is a thing of the past.
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1. Ten chervonets in 1937. One chervonets is equal, having simultaneous circulation, ten rubles, therefore a ten-ruble note acquires the synonym «chervonets». The card system for distributing the most important products was abolished in 1935.
2. Three rubles in 1938. Kilogram of wheat flour costs at this time 4 rubles 60 kopecks, gingerbread 5 rubles 75 kopecks, chum salmon – 3 rubles 50 kopecks, liter of vodka – 11 rubles. A pair of shoes 350 rubles (plus, sometimes, many thousands of queue). A good suit of 1200 r. Salary of workers is 180 – 360 rubles per month, responsible employees, functionaries – 1500 – 10 000 rubles; and this stratification probably contributed to the ferment in the minds of many citizens «the world’s first socialist state.» It is interesting that a note bearing the image of a Red Army soldier also circulated in the territories occupied by Germany, 1941—1944.
3. The ruble of 1947. A glass of milk or half a loaf of bread. For a large size (ruble – 82 by 124 mm., 10 rubles – 161 by 92 mm.), This money is sometimes called «Stalin’s handkerchiefs.»
4. A hundred-ruble bond; a loan from which citizens of the Union are difficult to refuse. You can get real money for such a deposit in a few years, sometimes – after an indefinite period. Sometimes the numbers of bonds won, like a lottery, which helped to attract additional funds.
In 1947, a kilogram of rye bread costs 3 rubles, sugar – 15 rubles, a dozen eggs, depending on the category of 12 – 16 rubles. The price of a half-liter bottle of vodka «Moskovskaya» – 60 rubles, beer «Zhigulevskoe» – 7 rubles. The average salary of city employees and workers is 500 rubles. Most of the victims of the post-war famine are the disabled and farm workers.
In 1949, prices for food products decreased by 5—6 percent, while clothing prices went up a little. The actual decline occurred only in 1950 – another 15—20 percent, and this time was the boundary separating the average Soviet man from the era of the deadly famine.
The chance of survival of 800 000 people could give a reduction in the level of hypocrisy, a split of consciousness in the Government, and the people as a whole. «Everything is good, there are no difficulties, we, since the time of the great Socialist Revolution – light elves… have always been so» – a general, little changed since then mood. Meanwhile, in order to be cured, ulcers need to… not – do not show everyone who meets, but consult the competent people necessarily, indicate the history of their illness, all the symptoms, and take qualified treatment.
On the subject of duplicity, we can also present the law of 1936, the ban on abortion, which, above all, led, surprisingly, to a general decline in the birth rate. Women had to turn to illegal surgeons, often rural women. If after this, with complications, they were taken to a state hospital, they were given a condition for providing assistance – a fine or the name of the person who performed the operation (he was threatened with a serious period). In the post-war period, thousands of young women died from clandestine abortions. In addition, the law of 1944 made the divorce procedure unthinkably confusing and expensive; this was done in the framework of state morality, but in fact led to a large number of extra-marital unions. Yes, a single mother could count on a state allowance of 100 rubles (reduced in 1947 to 50), but no claim for alimony from a civil husband. In addition, the father of the child, with all his will, could not ensure that his birth surname was in the birth metrics; instead of it there was a dash.
We can also recall the campaigns of 1946, 1951, 1956 to remove from the streets of cities that live on alms, war invalids, amputates. They were sent to boarding schools of a closed type (the system of correction and punishment of the GUGB of the NKVD), without the possibility of correspondence. Because of the opacity