Over the years, there have been endless jokes about the Soviet Union, full of some hilarious political jokes, but in addition to the funny, we have been able to firmly remember some famous leaders of the former Soviet Union.
In fact, the so-called Soviet jokes are derived from the self-deprecation of the early Soviet people or the creation of international agents, which also reflects the fact that these leaders of the former Soviet Union have indeed left a profound impact on future generations in political and economic construction.
Khrushchev, for example, had a fat, unassuming image, and although he was fiercely criticized politically by his successor Brezhnev and ousted by Brezhnev under house arrest, he also left an important fortune for the Soviets during his six years as chairman.
These political and economic initiatives still have an impact on Russia to this day, and as a result, russians often recall what Khrushchev did with him today.
End the cult of personality phenomenon
Originally a peasant boy, Khrushchev came to the city and became a worker in the working class, and it can be said that his starting point was also ordinary, but his political consciousness was very high, and as early as he was 18 years old, he carried out some political activities and even participated in the First World War.
By the time of the February Revolution, he was already a battle-hardened communist fighter, and he had naturally gained a place in Soviet power and became a chairman.
He went through several rounds and finally followed Stalin, but at Stalin's side, he witnessed Stalin's office style and felt a lot of pressure.
According to his recollections, Stalin was like a superman, and whenever he went to visit Stalin, Stalin was dealing with documents piled up as high as mountains, and it was precisely because of Stalin's superior personal ability that a large number of affairs during the Stalin period had to be handled by Stalin himself, which also made the domestic call for Stalin's cult of personality particularly high.
After Stalin's death due to a stroke, Khrushchev took Stalin's place, but he was quite aware of one thing, that is, he could not do the same political tricks as Stalin, so he implemented a far-reaching initiative that had a profound impact on the later Soviet Union, that is, to overthrow the cult of personality of Stalin in the country.
He began to completely repudiate Stalin and completely overthrow stalin's legacy, and soon the original excessive concentration of power was delegated to the various departments.
His move was undoubtedly correct, but the Soviets were puzzled by him, such as the public demonstrations of some of Stalin's more radical followers, who held aloft Stalin's portrait and threatened to overthrow him.
Such acts were eventually suppressed by the government authorities, and reforms were finally fully implemented, the entire Soviet Union was completely renewed from top to bottom, the political system became more orderly, and Khrushchev succeeded in relieving some of its burdens.
Comprehensive development of political culture
Although this created another problem, that is, the people's minds became less united than they had been, and Khrushchev also adopted a relatively liberal policy on culture, and introduced a series of cultural reforms.
Under his measure, the soviet literary field that had been gradually frozen was gradually thawed, and many works with unique reform significance were published one after another, which was undoubtedly thriving, but it also caused some ideological problems.
In fact, from our point of view today, the foreshadowing of the later Soviet color revolution in the Khrushchev period may have been laid, and there was no shortage of works at that time that had serious ideological differences with mainstream values, and Khrushchev himself had criticized these phenomena many times, but that was all.
The cultural field was still a hundred schools of thought, and it was undoubtedly a time bomb for the Soviet Union, which was later deceived by the United States and disintegrated on its own, but people at the time did not realize this.
Perhaps because the dispute with the United States was not too explicit at the time, the Soviet Union developed its own military and technology, which made Russia still occupy an important position in the world even if it basically followed the Soviet legacy.
For example, on October 4, 1957, mankind's first artificial satellite was launched by the Soviet Union, which is undoubtedly a success under the leadership of Khrushchev, and even now, these scientific and technological achievements can not be described as fruitful.
Khrushchev also took the initiative to reduce military expenditures, which caused a lot of dissatisfaction among the people in the military, but it was precisely because of such measures that the problem of the bloated physique of the army, which had been used since lenin and Stalin, was solved, and while saving funds, more state funds were used for political, cultural and economic construction.
During the Khrushchev period, such measures led to a comprehensive recovery of political culture, and as a result of the revival of political culture, the Soviet economy naturally showed signs of vitality.
Promote agriculture and economic development
In our textbooks there is an old photograph of Khrushchev holding corn, and the reason for this photograph is actually because Khrushchev promoted the development of agriculture and the economy in the Soviet Union at that time, and planting corn and getting a good harvest was part of his achievement.
Between 1961 and 1965, when he introduced the initiative, the average yield in those areas suitable for growing maize rose to 130 million, a growth rate of 50%.
He also abolished the compulsory delivery system, enabling farmers to plan their own products, no doubt increasing the net income of farmers, and after a few years of implementation of this series of economic measures, the average income of the Soviet Union nearly doubled, which has to be said to be a great success.
For the common people, those political cultures are illusory, and only by effectively making their pockets bulge and everyone can fill their stomachs is a good policy, and Khrushchev is naturally a good leader.
After Khrushchev was taken away by Brezhnev, although Brezhnev still followed a small amount of his policies, the people gradually found that their income growth had become slower, and even vaguely retrogressive.
So there were often Soviet jokes that would mock the fact that the leaders of the time starved the people, which was also helpless for those in power, and the Soviet Union only had cultural activity to climb higher and higher since then, and it reached its peak in the 90s.
Later, everyone knows that although the cultural activity of the Soviet Union continued to rise, the tongue of public opinion gradually fell into the hands of Western capitalist countries.
The world polarization pattern caused by the launch of Soviet satellites and the struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union have not been alleviated so far, and many agents have been secretly active in the Soviet Union, and finally overturned the entire Soviet Union from the spiritual level, making the Soviet Union collapse on its own in continuous reflection and eventually disintegrate, which is undoubtedly a great sorrow of the world proletarian revolution.
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However, when it comes to the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union, it is also inextricably linked to measures such as excessive decentralization promoted by Khrushchev, but even so, we still need to admit that he did solve many of the problems left over from the Stalin period, and therefore, russians today often miss the political policies of the Khrushchev era.
Of course, this also gives us a wake-up call, policies can not be used indefinitely, good policies need to keep pace with the times, otherwise there will be a counterproductive effect.
This is true of national policy, and it is also true for us individually, whether it is study or work, in fact, we should understand a moderate truth, if we are immersed in our own world, it is inevitable that we will not touch it in the end.
But if a person wants to put a sharp brake on himself, it is actually difficult to subjectively judge a suitable point of inhibition, just like the collapse of the Soviet Union, if you can have friends who share hardships and hardships to advise, it may not lead to the current end.