In 1941 the Soviet Army was ill-prepared and outdated, but corruption under Stalin was virtually non-existent.
This I think is a little misleading. Perhaps during the war itself the army shapened up, but by western liberal democratic standards Stalin and his general associates took tons and tons of money from their own people to spend on dachas and palaces. It was just not “corruption” because it wasn’t “illegal”.
As far as I know it is not true. I didn’t know about any very spectacular palaces for Stalin or any his associates.
There was a corruption under Stalin. But as far as I know the main problem was false reports. Superiors demanded to fulfil (and to overfulfil) the plan, subordinates were afraid to confess that they cannot to do it and they was sending reports about a plan fulfilment.
They definitely got tons of money from the budget… I don’t think it was stolen from military contracts, or whatever passed for military contracts in Stalin’s economy.
This I think is a little misleading. Perhaps during the war itself the army shapened up, but by western liberal democratic standards Stalin and his general associates took tons and tons of money from their own people to spend on dachas and palaces. It was just not “corruption” because it wasn’t “illegal”.
As far as I know it is not true. I didn’t know about any very spectacular palaces for Stalin or any his associates.
There was a corruption under Stalin. But as far as I know the main problem was false reports. Superiors demanded to fulfil (and to overfulfil) the plan, subordinates were afraid to confess that they cannot to do it and they was sending reports about a plan fulfilment.
They definitely got tons of money from the budget… I don’t think it was stolen from military contracts, or whatever passed for military contracts in Stalin’s economy.