State Duma deputy from the KPFR Leonid Kalashnikov, in a conversation with, did not agree with the words of the head of the Accounts Chamber Alexei Kudrin that now the standard of living in the country is 20% higher than it was in the USSR. According to the deputy, the quality of life of entrepreneurs has improved, but the state should take care that the majority of the population live well.

“I think that for people like Kudrin it may be higher, but for 99% of the population, well, not 99, let's say so, 95%, at least it is definitely worse, or 90%. But at Kudrin and those like him, including those who seized the property of the Soviet Union, now, of course, they live better there. Some of the entrepreneurs who, in general, did their own business, live better, and in this sense, I cannot but agree with this that they began to live better than in Soviet times. But the fact is that the state is such a mechanism that should primarily take care not of this, but of ensuring that the majority of the population, thereby 90%, live well. We still cannot return the deposits to the Soviet people that they accumulated during the Soviet era. How did they get better at living? They no longer live, they are already in the next world, ”he said.

Earlier, the head of the Accounts Chamber, former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Russia Alexei Kudrin said that the standard of living in Russia now is about 20% higher than it was in the USSR. According to him, in 2003-2004 the country was able to return to the standard of living that it had in 1990 before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Including improved quality of life for doctors and teachers.

The head of the joint venture also added that now the Russian state has hundreds of thousands of private enterprises, prices in the state are formed by the market, there is no shortage, the ruble has become a convertible currency, and the public debt is one of the lowest in the world.

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