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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 05 January 2016 09:31:45PM 1 point [-]

A lot of value was taken by force, but economic inequality was very low.

I am contesting this.

Comment author: Lumifer 05 January 2016 09:46:39PM 1 point [-]

The first part, or the second, or both?

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 05 January 2016 09:50:00PM 0 points [-]

Second.

Comment author: Lumifer 05 January 2016 10:10:49PM *  1 point [-]

To get a bit more concrete I'm talking about the Soviet Russia of the pre-perestroika era, basically Brezhnev times.

Do you have something specific in mind? Of course party bosses lived better than village peons, but I don't think that the economic inequality was high. Money wasn't the preferred currency in the USSR -- it was power (and access).

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