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USSR progress on mortality under socialism
Year
|
USSR deaths per 1000
|
USA deaths per 1000
|
1913
|
30.2
|
13.2
|
1940
|
18.3
|
10.8
|
1950
|
9.6
|
9.6
|
1953
|
9.0
|
9.6
|
1956
|
7.5
|
9.4
|
We use 1913 as the starting date instead of 1917 when the Russian Revolution occurred. Some capitalist historians think it is fair not to blame
the capitalist system for the deaths of World War I and 1913 was the last
year before World War I.
In 1924 Lenin died and Stalin came to power in the USSR. In 1953 Stalin died. Khruschev denounced Stalin in 1956 in his "secret speech." It's been downhill to capitalism ever since in the USSR.
Year
|
USSR infant deaths per 1000
|
USA infant deaths per 1000
|
1913
|
273
|
99.9
|
1940
|
184
|
47.0
|
1950
|
81
|
29.2
|
1953
|
68
|
27.8
|
1956
|
47
|
26.0
|
Source: John F. Kantner, "Basic Demographic Comparisons Between the USSR and the United States," (1959)...paper submitted to the Subcommittee on Economic Statistics of the Joint Economic Committee, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, Washington, DC. in Alex Inkeles & Kent Geiger, eds. Soviet Society: A Book of Readings (Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Co., 1961), p. 18.