Cadres are greedy beyond imagination
After moving out of the Kremlin, Mikoyan was struck by his new villa, built of red brick in the style of a Gothic castle, with doors paved with marble steps in three directions, a marble floor throughout, and a statue of the Virgin in the hall, even the picture frames were made of marble made in Italy.
This symbolized the luxurious life of the privileged class of the Soviet Union. This accounts for only about 1 of the country's populationThe unbridled squandering of national wealth and popular trust by the 4% led to the fall of the Soviet Union.
Their life is extravagant beyond ordinary people's imagination, and they often hug the car to pick up and send them away, and the mansion compound is the standard configuration. For example, Sherepin, who once served as the head of the KGB, felt that it was too delaying to go out with a group of security personnel, and often went out alone to run errands, which made Brezhnev speechless.
Although the anthill that collapsed the embankment overnight did not emerge overnight, some signs have already appeared since the establishment of the regime. We can see this in the housing system of Soviet cadres.
Looking through the report in his hand, Lenin found that after the October Revolution, ** had been ruined by the Tsarist regime: the country is so vast, but a considerable part of the population cannot even guarantee basic water and electricity, and there are about 1 5 power plants and 154% of the water plants are in a state of abandonment, and 25% of the public baths and nearly half of the laundry rooms have long since closed; The vast majority of the remaining facilities are still concentrated in large and medium-sized cities.
This means that the ** people whose basic life is guaranteed may not even be half - this is already the 20th century, and there are still people who regard taking a hot bath as a luxury?
It is no wonder that the proletarian revolution will take root in the hearts of the people. However, it is embarrassing that the Soviet power was not only unable to improve the status quo in a short period of time, but was forced to devote more public resources to the civil war due to the extremely harsh situation at home and abroad.
This has led to the diversion of scarce housing and sanitation facilities to the military. Not only that, but in order to survive, the people were forced to demolish their houses and split wooden building materials into firewood to fight the cold.
Historical records show that in the capital Moscow, no less than 2,500 houses were expropriated by the authorities in the winter of 1919 alone. Although such a decision would have a huge negative impact, Lenin really had no choice but to be ruthless in order to survive.
The people of Soviet Russia, with the support of the military and the people, passed the most difficult stage. Immediately after 1922, the Soviets**, who took control of the situation, introduced a series of measures aimed at raising the standard of living of the population.
In order to alleviate the housing shortage, ** followed the idea of the 19th-century French utopian socialist scholar Charles Fourier, a large number of buildings were requisitioned, and the interior and exterior were renovated and divided into small rooms of equal size.
After simple renovations and water and electricity installations, these rooms were distributed to people in desperate need of housing, similar to the "partitions" rented by young people today. Although accommodation was very limited, it did solve the urgent need at the time.
Such a room doesn't even have a private bathroom, and when you wake up in the middle of the night, you may find several large rats lying on your chest. However, for the people of that time, having a stable place to live and being able to take hot baths several times a week was already like heaven.
This was the much-lauded Soviet "housing commune system", which initially embodied the "egalitarianism" of the later Soviet system. While renovating existing buildings on a large scale, new homes are also being built to meet the housing needs of more people.
By 1928, the housing problem of the grassroots people was basically solved, and the next step was to solve the problem of accommodation for cadres.
At the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party in 1922, the question was raised: whether the leadership should enjoy a better life. Although some ** pursued material life, under the advocacy of Lenin, people temporarily chose restraint.
But it's not realistic to have policymakers live in the same environment as ordinary people. As a result, the authorities have taken an ingenious solution to convert the highest quality buildings into dormitories, which are assigned to different levels according to the grade of the buildings.
For example, the Smolny Noble Women's College, founded in 1764, was transformed into one of the best cadre dormitories of the time, where many of the most powerful people chose to live.
About 600 Russian **high-ranking people** and their families live here, and there are as many as 1,000 staff members such as security personnel, cooks, attendants and doctors.
Slightly worse dormitories are mostly allocated to the heads of important state institutions, members of various state administrations. Although everyone wants to live in a good house, there are many monks and few porridges, and not all of them can move in immediately, and depending on their age and rank, some cadres with little seniority need to live in apartments with poor conditions and wait for allocation.
In addition, some high-powered national leaders prefer to choose these grades of residence because they feel closer to their subordinates and can communicate decisions and spirit more quickly.
Although the people live in partitions that do not even have independent bathrooms, while the cadres enjoy luxurious suites, this does not affect everyone's harmony. After all, the cadres live in "second-hand", while the people solve the livelihood problem from scratch.
However, as the Soviet Union's national power grew, some people began to be dissatisfied with the status quo. Soon a resolution was adopted at the top, announcing the entry of a new stage in the housing system for Soviet cadres.
Despite the good conditions of the cadres' dormitories, the ** still expressed their dissatisfaction with the collective dormitories. Even the country's leaders are starting to grow tired of living conditions. Beginning in the 30s of the 20th century, the Soviet top brass began to allocate funds for the construction of detached houses, especially Stalin, who listed housing security as one of the basic benefits of **, aiming to maintain justice through "**."
Stalin tried to better serve the country and the people by exchanging abundant living security for the indifference of the ** to material things, but he clearly underestimated human desires. As the saying goes, "from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift", once this is opened, people's pursuit of material life can not be stopped: the higher the position, the more luxurious their new home is; Watching the new house become more and more spacious, vanity drives them to constantly strive for better, and dissatisfaction grows.
Soon, housing was no longer just a place to live, but a status symbol. With the advent of luxurious villas, the Soviet privileged class began to take shape. I believe that while it is important to fight corruption, it is understandable that people from different walks of life enjoy different lives.
The key is to grasp a "degree", and how to control this boundary is the biggest test for leaders.