Inside Soviet Industry: The Quotas That Crushed Progress

Описание: Inside Soviet Industry: The Quotas That Crushed Progress

How does a superpower capable of defeating the Wehrmacht and launching the first human into space simultaneously create an economy where a nail factory can't make a nail that doesn't bend?

In this documentary, we expose the central mystery of the Soviet industrial experiment: a system where chandelier factories produced lamps so heavy they pulled down ceilings, where millions of television sets spontaneously exploded in living rooms, and where rational managers were forced to destroy their own country's resources just to meet "The Plan."

We dive deep into the archives of Gosplan to uncover the "Gross Output" (Val) indicator—the economic metric that turned the Soviet Union into a generator of absurdity. From the tragic "Ryazan Miracle," where a party boss slaughtered his entire region's livestock to win a medal, to the "Storming" frenzies that turned factories into madhouses at the end of every month, this is the story of how a superpower collapsed under the weight of its own paperwork.

Topics Covered:

The Chandelier Paradox: Why factories filled lamps with lead to meet tonnage quotas.

The Storm: Why you should never buy a Soviet TV made on the 28th of the month.

The Ryazan Miracle: A suicide pact for meat production.

The Trophy Trap: How captured Nazi machines outlasted Soviet innovation.

Ecological Disaster: The whaling fleet that killed for biomass and the death of the Aral Sea.

The Final Payoff: How the logic of the "Plan" led to the tragic death toll of the 1988 Armenian earthquake.

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