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by estaset 1260 days ago
> The great success of the soviets was getting people from farms to factories

People working at farms ("колхоз") got their passports in the 70s. You have no right to leave without a passport, that's a criminal offence. Not to mention you must be registered at a specific address ("прописка", "регистрация") or you'd be detained by the first police patrol. And they got their first salaries in the 50s. Farmers in the USSR were effectively serfs for the most part of history. Slogans aside, no one got them anywhere.

> He took the USSR from a feudal society to industrial society.

Thanks, american taxpayers and spiness commie sympathizing administrations for sponsoring and building the "soviet" industry.