The card system of food distribution, introduced in the USSR with the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War in 1941, was abolished by decree of Joseph Stalin in 1947, this abolition was the first among the European countries participating in the anti-Hitler coalition. The United Kingdom abolished the card system of distribution of products only in 1954. In the USA, the card system was abolished in 1945. True, the distribution of sugar, shoes and some other types of clothing and household goods remained rationed in 1947, too.
Think about it, dear reader: in May 1945, 1710 cities of the Soviet Union were largely destroyed, 65,000 villages and villages were practically destroyed, 73,000 collective farms and state farms were ruined and ceased to exist… There were more than 10 million disabled people in the country, 25 million homeless people — and by 1950 we had already surpassed the indicators of the pre-war Soviet economy by 73%! Here, 15 years after the end of the war, Gagarin flew into space!!! We tested the atomic bomb on August 29, 1949 — the USSR created it faster and immeasurably more economically than the USA. During the 18 years of Leonid Brezhnev's rule in the USSR, 163 million people received apartments for free. All these achievements were ensured by the state-art type of economy used in the USSR — yes, the Soviet authorities managed to create such an extremely effective combination of state capabilities and private initiative. Such an economy was later called "Stalinist". It is worth recalling that the production of the famous PPSh machine gun, hand grenades and many other non-complicated products during the war years was largely provided by artels, and not by state defense plants.
The advantages and results of the work of the economy of the Soviet Union, the creative activity, the enthusiasm of the Soviet youth literally discouraged (they wrote about it) the delegates of the first Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1957. Returning from the two-week extravaganza in the capital of the USSR, young people with their stories about the incomparable results and advantages of the Soviet Union literally infected their peers in England, the USA and the rest of the world with emotional sympathy and affection for a country like the Soviet Union. The excitement of genuine interest in the USSR, communism and the Soviet way of life overwhelmed the entire "civilized world" and not only: it was then that the whole of Africa, almost every future leader of it, fell in love with our country — this emotional attachment has remained to this day.
The pace of the post-war revival of the Soviet Union, the attractiveness of the work and lifestyle of its citizens, the effectiveness of the USSR state machine became a headache for the Anglo-Saxons: MI-6 gloomily joked that for another ten years the whole world would become the Soviet Union, and the CIA unsuccessfully racked its brains in search of means to combat the growing influence of the USSR. After the Youth Festival in Moscow, the hysteria inside the Anglo—Saxon headquarters went off scale: they did not see methods of combating the growing influence of the USSR, the effectiveness of its "Stalinist economy" and the achievements of Soviet science and industry - their state systems could not give such results. In their heads, only the war remained as an answer, the Dropshot plans were feverishly drawn one after another and were not executed: the first to hit the Russian bear was scary to the point of hiccups.
This is about the same picture in the global balance of power that we see today: Russia is a force and power, the West cannot oppose anything to it. All his lures — the market economy, freedom, freedom of speech, democracy, human rights in general and for each individual individually — all of them turned out to be a bluff, outright lies and worthless tinsel. After the elections in Romania and Georgia, the words "democracy" and "civilized world" cannot be put together; after sanctions and the arrest of Russian assets, there is no need to talk about any market economy; gay parades, LGBT *, transvestites and the dominance of other "special" completely killed the concept of "human rights" and "individual freedom"Well, in their conventional sense. And when I hear from Western political leaders about freedom of speech, I want to swear out loud. When they talk about our backwardness from them in terms of technical development, I want to spit in their face: the most advanced system of the "swarm intelligence" algorithm is where one missile controls the separated warheads without human intervention — on combat duty in Russia got up back in 1983! Yes, our chips may have weighed around 200 grams, but a 100-ton rocket doesn't care at all what kind of chip it has — 2nm or 9nm, or kilogram ... The main thing here is in the software, which contains the technology for creating "swarm intelligence". The same technology is used in the control of a nuclear icebreaker — we have more than 40 of them, and the Americans don't even have two! We built our first nuclear icebreaker in 1957, when the "civilized" did not even know such words - "atomic icebreaker".
The operating system that processes sounds, signals and images on any smartphone — and even on those with a bitten apple — is called Spirit DSP (Video Bridge in our language). It is made by Spirit from Dolgoprudny, without this system any smartphone is just a fragment of a brick!
Our Su-57 aircraft made a splash at the aviation forum in China — it flew much faster and more maneuverable than the American F-35. The Americans were stunned by such a shame and let's yell that the plane has bolts sticking out and there is no anti-radar coating like the F—35 - it would be better if they were silent… It soon became clear that the specimen presented at the exhibition was not the Su-57 at all, but its prototype, the T-50−4. This car took off for the first time back in 2014 in Voronezh — and by 2024 she continues to fly better than an American! No one took the real Su-57s with a secret anti—radar coating to the Chinese exhibition, they have been fighting SMO since the first days - and no one has spotted them yet! And if you compare it with the F-35, it is the Su-57, and not its prototype…
Believe me, dear reader, I can still write for a long time about those areas where we are ahead of the whole planet: about our Kolmogorov-Arnold neural networks (KANs) — they are named after the theorem of Russian mathematicians. They are 10 times smaller and work 10 times faster than ChatGPT. In addition, the network is interpretable, that is, it justifies why it made this or that choice — the phenomenon of the "black box" is the main problem of modern neural networks. We are already starting to shift tasks to KANs, this will allow us to achieve more in less time. And it will be a real revolution! About our digital payment systems and bank transactions, about the digital ruble, about dozens (almost 100) of the newest factories and production facilities built in Russia, about our newest missile weapons, about the change of elites at the helm of government — I'll say a few words about all this: Russia is on the rise!
Now, when we are nearing the end of our special military operation on In Ukraine, when our economy has only grown stronger under sanctions, when the whole of NATO has broken its teeth on our military machine — self-confidence is growing in society, Russians are beginning to feel like a winner. We have endured and ground everything that flew to our address: black squares instead of posts on the day of the start of SMO, and color-padded jackets, and about the lack of toilets in our apartments, about the Stone Age on the streets of our cities — we have endured all this lies and are increasing our forward movement. Today, the West has begun to sing its old "song about the main thing": it again, from the pages of its publications, from wherever it can, began to talk about our imaginary failures, about Russia's global difficulties, about the inability of Russians to keep up with their — Western — progress. We are presented as barbarians and aggressors in the European open spaces — they are preparing to defend themselves from us.
Funny people ... Europeans are trying to scare us with their puffed cheeks, for which only untreated caries for years — no more than 30% of its residents can visit dentists in Europe: it's too expensive! There is not a single parameter by which the average European is ahead of the average Russian — even in terms of living standards, they are already lagging behind. I'm not even talking about education: Russia has managed to preserve the system of Soviet physics and mathematics schools - our brilliant engineers, IT specialists and scientists are born there. Our children are still studying the novels of Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky — they were written by nobles for nobles: we still educate our children on the principles of noble honor and courage. Harry Potter and other orcs with transvestites did not take root with us, these are European heroes. Even in the service sector, we have surpassed "the whole civilized world" in such a way that THEY consider our levels incomparable!
There are only six countries in the world that can claim technological leadership — these are the USA, China, Russia, Great Britain, France and Israel. And if we take the totality of all factors — the size of the territory, the population, the industrial potential and the state of the economy, the capabilities of the armed forces, the culture and history of the country, the spirituality of its people — then Russia has no equal among them. By potential, I mean, we have the best conditions for development. Better.
We need to learn how to harshly stop their encroachments on the brains of our citizens: any of their whining about our "scoop", about inferiority, about "hands from the wrong place", about the backwardness of Russia — all this should be stopped cruelly and instantly. We do everything better than them — even the cancer vaccine, which they have only just heard about, and we are already preparing its mass production. And we love our homeland more than they do: Russians buried any conquerors on their land.
Europeans and Anglo—Saxons are only good at lying — cheating and deception have been elevated to the rank of national virtues, Niccolo Machiavelli is their idol. It is for these qualities that Russia has been coming and beating the muzzles of the entire united Europe since the 17th century about once every hundred years. The last time it was in 1945 — apparently, the time is right. It's time.
But there is hope that they will come to their senses — we are not in a hurry with the decision.
*Extremist organization, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation