This all would have been prevented if the Gorbachev clique didn't betray the Soviet Union in exchange for wanting to pillage the coming privatization wave. And if it wasn't shitted through those years into a beaurocratic degenerated worker's state. Europe would have fallen to revolution by the 2008 financial crisis and the US wouldn't have been far behind.
the so-called Brezhnev "stagnation", which was first mentioned by the destroyer of the USSR Gorbachev at the 27th Congress.
In 1980, the Soviet Union ranked first in Europe and second in the world in terms of industrial and agricultural production.
If in 1960 the volume of industrial output of the USSR in comparison with the USA was 55%, then 20 years later, in 1980, it was already more than 80%. The USSR came out on top in the world in cement production, since 1966 it was noticeably ahead of the USA and Great Britain in this indicator per capita.
The USSR has almost tripled the volume of industrial production. New industries were created, including electronic, microbiological, and nuclear engineering. The volume of production in agriculture has increased by a third. Tens of thousands of kilometers of railways, new cities, power plants and factories have been built, the basis of a unified energy system has been created.
The USSR came to the forefront in space exploration, the development of aviation, nuclear energy, fundamental and applied sciences.
During the reign of Leonid Brezhnev, the peak of the USSR's power as one of the two world superpowers came. The Soviet Union then determined the global trends in the development of human civilization. During Brezhnev's leadership, significant successes were achieved in strengthening ties between the Soviet Union and the countries of the socialist commonwealth, in the activities of the world national liberation movement.
In social terms, over the 18 Brezhnev years, the real incomes of the population increased by more than 1.5 times. The population of the RSFSR in those years increased by 14 million, and the USSR by 42 million people. There was also the commissioning of 1.6 billion square meters of living space under Brezhnev, thanks to which 162 million people were provided with free housing. At the same time, the rent on average did not exceed 3% of family income.
