Russia has a strong army and good at science, Russian invented satellite, spaceship, space station, helicopter. if soviet leaders focus on making money, soviet could be very rich. people make money by tricks. - Example, diamond, we sell gold by gram, they sell diamond by 0.2g (carat ) diamond is not that valuable. they make diamond that valuable. - those hongkomngese/hongki invented 12 sq ft house, which is about 1 square meter. this is why there are many real estate tycoons in the 1000 square km hongkong. people can google cage people in hongkong.
There are an academy of science in Soviet. There should be also an academy of economic in Russia. Russia invented man-made diamond, but Russia did not make much money from it.
Like the United States, England, and many other countries, the money in Russia is owned and controlled by a tiny percentage of the people.
[video=youtube;5uVq-E7eOzg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uVq-E7eOzg[/video] CSKA Moscow (Russian: ЦСКА Москва is a major Russian figure skating club that has also been home to many elite figure skaters, such as Adelina Sotnikova, which was founded as a Red Army sports club.
Income disparity is manifestly injurious to society, breeding, as it does, elitism and exploitation, and a class society where 1% take all in a dog-eat-dog world.
Yes, currently in some European Union countries there is more equitable distribution of wealth. The U.S. consistently exhibits higher rates of income inequality than most developed nations due to the nation's enhanced support of free market capitalism and less progressive spending on social services.