For may day I bring you the benefits of the workers struggle and evidence of its success. Socialism has worked. Socialism has worked well. And socialism will work
Sources:
Allen Dulles CIA director on the threat of the Soviet Economy: https://www.nytimes.com/1958/04/29/archives/allen-dulles-sees-us-peril-in-soviets-economic-rise-cia-chief-tells.html
Towards a soviet america, Increasing production: https://www.marxists.org/archive/foster/1932/toward/03.htm
Do Publicly Owned, Planned Economies Work? By Stephan Gowans: https://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work/
The Soviet Union in Asia: Geoffy Jukes: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Soviet_Union_in_Asia.html?id=zqXgTC4XgSEC
Revolution From Above: The Demise of the Soviet System: https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Above-Demise-Soviet-System/dp/0415143179
Farm to Factory: Soviet growth and calorie consumption: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=fa5b6de5135f49269cd2b35b727236f7
CIA report on the soviet diet: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP84B00274R000300150009-5.pdf
Soviet Women Remember Socialism: Woman's rights and litericy campgain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=933jsB5ChlA
Sheila Fitzpatrick interview: http://seansrussiablog.org/2017/08/07/retrospective-on-stalinism/
Robert Thurston Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=bcb105833aa3f469f1131209e3875a9f
Full rights outlined by the soviet constitiution: https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/36cons01.html
List of innovations in the soviet union: https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/5k5y51/what_innovations_or_inventions_have_communist/dbme886/
Brock and Keller Where do innovations come from?: http://www.itif.org/files/Where_do_innovations_come_from.pdf
Most innovations funded by the state sector: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/mar/20/budget-2012-osborne-failed-model-1979
Healthcare within the USSR: http://medicalency.com/bolnitsy-v-sssr.htm
Paul Cockshott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE-kCZnlGZU
We lived better then: https://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/we-lived-better-then/
Referendum on the preservation of the ussr: http://en.ria.ru/infographics/20110313/162959645.html
Fall of the USSR and capitalist restoration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KpS2eAay_8
Detailed multi part essay on the fall of the soviet union: http://www.invent-the-future.org/2017/11/why-doesnt-the-soviet-union-exist-any-more-part-1-introduction/
Russian Federation statistics: https://data.worldbank.org/country/russian-federation
Russian control over oil and gas: https://web.archive.org/web/20121010154607/http://www.brookings.edu/views/papers/hillf/200205_demokratizatsiya.pdf
More on state control over oil: https://sputniknews.com/analysis/20080301100381963/
Most Russians regret USSR collapse, dream of its return, poll shows: https://www.rt.com/politics/340158-most-russians-regret-ussr-has/
Romanians long for 'good old days of communism': https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/romania/1376052/Romanians-long-for-good-old-days-of-communism.html
Oppressive and grey? No, growing up under communism was the happiest time of my life: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1221064/Oppressive-grey-No-growing-communism-happiest-time-life.html
Tajikistan pines for old Soviet Union strength: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0527/Tajikistan-pines-for-old-Soviet-Union-strength
Former Soviet Countries See More Harm From Breakup: http://news.gallup.com/poll/166538/former-soviet-countries-harm-breakup.aspx
Russia Nw”, in The Washington Post, March 25, 2009.
Information about east german accounts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUr_HVsyIZQ
Bulgarians feel swindled after 13 years of capitalism,” AFP, December 19, 2002.
Globe and Mail (Canada), June 9, 2008.
Support dwindling in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland,” The Chicago Tribune, May 27, 2001.
Polish Left Gets Transfusion of Young Blood: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/world/europe/13iht-poland.html
In Post-U.S.S.R. Russia, Any Job Is a Good Job: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/world/in-post-ussr-russia-any-job-is-a-good-job.html
Central Asia in Nostalgia for the Soviet Period: http://web.archive.org/web/20130722044443/http://www.thewashingtonreview.org/articles/central-asia-in-nostalgia-for-the-soviet-period.html
Economic development, political-economic system, and the physical quality of life.: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3706593
Full Parenti lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP8CzlFhc14
Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Wl8Wqnxyk
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