Drat Mudcat's hinky servers! Trying again to post this - I'll try posting three short continuing messages, after trying four times to post a longer answer.
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Lighter, the USSR doesn't exist any more. If you're talking about Russia, it currently has some of the most unequal incomes in the world, and is suffering terribly as a result. (And the USSR was full of corruption and quite unequal too.)
Look at that shirt you're wearing. The children who made it were paid around $30 per month. The country where they live also has some of the richest people in the world. It is a place of severe violence, low education, tragic perinatal mortality, where a Beethoven's or an Einstein's talents will never come to fruition if they're born into the wrong class.