>>278092>industry>qolI think this was true until like the 60s-70s. There was more of an excuse when Russia was a backwards country with nothing but dirt snow and horses to its name but by the time industrialization was completed the welfare of the citizens should have been prioritized given that's like the entire point of socialism. Then again
>implying the su was still ideological by that point rather than a political huskYou could say it was important to stay ahead in terms of nukes, the space race, etc, and that a large industrial base is necessary to socialistically raise QoL and you could say the su did do their best (like them or not commie blocks provided housing to many many people, for example) and I'd generally agree but I also think the su was just a complete and total mess by the point they could actually start making large improvements to QoL anyway so. idk. no real point to this i suppose.
>I don't like their uniformsAfghanka is cool doe. That said modern Russian uniforms mog late Sov unis to death. Idk how effective it is in combat considering Russians get owned regularly but Ratnik definitely wins in terms of coolest modern soldier, but it doesn't really have a lot of competition atm bcs everyone wants their military to be low drag high speed operators wearing head to toe multicam so who knows. I think some of the post Soviet countries (see: Estonia) still have uniforms that aren't multivomit but the pictures I have might be quite old so who can say