It's similar to third world countries.
People don't want to leave in poor places. So they will always try to escape them. USSR made developing industrial areas their refuge basically and contributed to growing big cities.
Thing is, villages were overused as a resource for development, at the cost of abusing people there.
And as I said, make some of own citizens second-rate is kinda not communist.
1. Communists had to do it. First ten years after civil war were paradise for peasants under rule of Reds. Btw, my grandfather was born in these years. But later....
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"Do you want our socialist fatherland to be beaten and to lose its independence? But if you do not want this, you must liquidate its backwardness in the shortest possible time and develop real Bolshevik rates in building its socialist economy. There are no other ways. That is why Lenin said on the eve of October: "Either death, or catch up and overtake the advanced capitalist countries."
We are 50-100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us, " said Joseph Stalin at the first All-Union Conference of Socialist Industry Workers on February 4, 1931.
No other managment choice in history.
2. For me communistic theory died in period of start collectivization. Reading about holodomor I fastly recognized problems of 1932-1933 with problems of the end of USSR.
When everything started to be common and your salary didn't dependent from your work - system collapsed.
Only horror famine, later war, later recovery after war forced to work under constant pressure and common mobilization. When worker's paradise was formed everything collapsed again. System just could not live without mobilization and pressure. Not any reason for selfdevelopment of any man.
I know that the peasants had lower salary, standard of living and access to goods.
And I am gonna be honest, most people can't relate to the bureaucratic elites success. Like Americans can't directly relate to success of Bill Clinton for example.
But you and me are examples of development of USSR and forming new educated Soviet elite. Whitout USSR I suppose we worked now in the Ukrainian field with bad education like my grandfather and your grandmother....
Villages and kolhozes in USSR were pretty inefficient, bad and always had lower standards of living after 1930s. The escape of youth and marginalisation of village hit the countryside hard.
Like soviet system.
But regarding me I was born and lived in youth in ecxellent USSR's Sovkhoz around Moscow. As it was called - millionare. State invested in building of greenhouses and my mother worked there. All year round cucumbers and tomatoes were fresh in our flat (Later individual) home like bread. Workers could take home everything they produced. As best Sovkhoz Gorbachev was in our place and I saw him 3 meters from me when he was young and in power at the begining.
It is other example.
P.S. Before collapse of USSR Sovkhoz built modern cottages (Around 150-200 m2 and 8 ares of land) for best workers. Our mother as "production leader" was proposed to change two-room apartment for cottage. Father didn't want it, but mother persuaded him. It costs around 25 000 soviet rubles for long-term interest-free loan. Simple salary of one man was arpund 200 roubles per months. After collapse of USSR and it its economy we fastly paid all loans, because financial system collapsed.
