Quaility of life declined after the sall of "communism"

[ContrarianLemming]

Quaility of life declined after the sall of "communism"
I have seen a decent few statistics showing this, however I'm having trouble finding them, can someone point me to them?
The wikipedia article claims that life improved in Russia and co after 1991, which is clearly not true, I know however that if I don't cite some sources, my edit wont go unchanged.

cheers.

[Coggeh]

Quaility of life declined after the sall of "communism"
I have seen a decent few statistics showing this, however I'm having trouble finding them, can someone point me to them?
The wikipedia article claims that life improved in Russia and co after 1991, which is clearly not true, I know however that if I don't cite some sources, my edit wont go unchanged.

cheers.
The quality of life dramatically fell after the collapse of Stalinism in Russia.Yelstin and his Chicago boys and co, implemented the must sweepful hurtful neo-liberal reforms there privatizing many of the major parts of the economy in one go which gave rise to the oil oligarchy that you now see in Russia. Prices were ’liberated’ and market practices introduced. Yeltsin promised, when subsidies were removed that, although ’life will be hard for six months’, after that, prices would fall. Instead, in 1992 they rose by 2,529%.

What remained of the central plan had disappeared and the state budget had dried up. Pensioners and conscripts alike went hungry. Army officers were known to use their positions of power to enrich themselves from whatever funds came their way. By the end of 1993 about 85% of small enterprises and one third of total state assets had been privatised.
State property was thus ’distributed’ according to connections built up over years in the party apparatus or through offering ’incentives’ or bribes to those who made the decisions - insider dealing on the grand scale! Crony capitalism was rife. So too was open theft, backed up by mafia tactics.
Factories ground to a halt. Between twelve and 15 million jobs disappeared. Tens of millions of workers were still going to work but receiving no pay. Some received payment in kind - potatoes,

Russian GDP in 2006 was still only 85% of the 1989 level. "Life expectancy and levels of education are still inferior to those of the USSR", he says, "and even below those of Cuba". One hospital in five still lacks hot water and sewerage facilities. Only two countries had higher murder rates - South Africa and Colombia.


That Russia’s output contracted catastrophically in the 1990s has become acliche´. According to official Goskomstat statistics, Russian GDP per capita fell about, 39 percent in real terms between 1991, when Gorbachev left office, and 1998, when the economic recovery started.
http://www.rau.ro/intranet/JEP/2005/1901/19010151.pdf

[Nolan]

The quality of life dramatically fell after the collapse of Stalinism in Russia.

Khrushchev must have done a number on the USSR right after taking office.

[RadioRaheem84]

Heck I would argue that the quality of life sunk throughout the world since the decline of the ussr. States were not afraid to impose neo liberal reforms.

[redSHARP]

uneven development occurred, and this led to a few getting rich and everyone else losing jobs, health care, homes

[Hiratsuka]

Is it that surprising? The Soviet Union created very large enterprises which were sold off to statesmen and opportunists. "Free market" for liberal reformers usually (and ironically) means selling off the greatest assets to the highest bidders regardless of how little they've contributed.