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2024-03-08 14:27:01 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 39BFB241E530A5413561C51E61E9D4362703E844DB2BADC730F0BD0BA1C7D779
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Cold War era CIA estimates of the Soviet economy and living standards are generally understood to be overstated. https://www.gao.gov/assets/nsiad-91-274.pdf https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/CIA-Assessments-Soviet-Union.pdf https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/Soviet-Reality-Sans-Potemkin.pdf The graph comes from a blog post criticizing claims of Soviet food superiority. https://nintil.com/the-soviet-union-food/
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