Image: Vladimir Lenin. Stock Photo. FreeImages.com/Paal Gladso The Soviet Union was established to create the workers’ paradise that Communist theorists envisioned. The idea was that workers would own the means of production, make the production decisions and share the production rewards. It never worked that way. In practice, the state owned the means of production, made the production decisions and took a huge cut off the top before giving workers the crumbs. An irony of the Soviet system was that if workers tried to organize, as they did in capitalist countries, they would be ruthlessly suppressed. Some Soviet citizens hoped …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
