dewtech: Party functionaries were the same like they are now, living the life, pocketing money left and right.
Crosmando: Yes corruption, I mentioned that. But that's completely different than a company CEO who owns a factory and profits from the work of his employees. Are you telling me that politicians in the USSR were literal millionaires who owned private companies?
No it's not the same, goddamn those young western people. People are inherently evil. You can keep dreaming your dreams of friendship and perfect equality, but people are selfish and those systems will never work, as some people will always, ALWAYS corrupt the system and start fu*king it up. Read up about Khmer Rouge, would be a perfect world if they lived in a world they dreamed of, but real life was very fu*ked up, same with North Korea, same with CCCP. Russians and Middle Asians were mostly the only ones who liked CCCP, Russians got their egos buffed by running the biggest country in the world and having colonies (friendly socialist countries). Middle Asians got the most democratic forms of governance that they had ever seen (Usbeks, Tadziks, Kyrgisis) and education.
Those were the politicians friends who did that (ran the factories)
That's why a lot of younger people here can't wait until the older generation dies off, as they were politicians during the soviet times, and suddenly they changed colours and are politicians to date (some very nationalist aswell).
During the 90-s the same factory owners privatized those factories they were appointed to run by their friends in the system and are still rich and corrupted.