The idea of a socially fair community born in Ancient Greece was developed in the XIX century in the works of C. Marx and F. Engels. It has always remained just a model in Europe and the USA, while in Russia it gained the support of radical social groups in the end of the XIX century.

Playing on the economic and social problems of imperial Russia, radical leftist parties managed to inspire the mass with the idea of social equality. Thus, the communist and social-revolutionary parties came to power in the fall of 1917.

What did they promise to the people? The Party promised to make the whole nation prosperous and abundant, provide free medical care (including the necessary medication), free public transport, free accommodation, clothes and catering, primary, secondary, and higher education. It also mentioned shortening the working day to the minimum. The money was going to be abolished for its uselessness.

However, the road to such seductive future was crossed by banal struggle for power. Joseph Stalin became the only leader of the communist party with the help of a series of assassinations and fictitious charges of treason. However, the new chief of the Soviet Union who could brag of just a basic secondary education didn’t know HOW to guide the country towards the promised ideals.

It’s hard to gain the power, it’s much harder to keep it, but it’s impossible to make the ideals of the socially fair community come true in the country with a totally ruined economy. Actually, Stalin didn’t waste too much time thinking; he announced that communist reformation evokes the class struggle and stirred up the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs against all socially and economically active citizens of the country. Tens of millions (!) of people were arrested, nominally convicted, and either executed or sent to work camps. One of PCIA’s leaders of that time boasted of his “department” (work camps) occupying the first place in the total production of USSR’s GDP.

And they succeeded! In the late 1930’s the Soviet Union ranked with the world’s major leading countries. The USSR was taken into consideration by the others! It was feared too - the Union didn’t outstrip The United States as street agitation boards had promised to, but it managed to manifest itself as an economically and technologically developed country. It should be noticed once again, though – the immense dash performed by the Soviet Union in 1920’s-1930 was mostly due to the drudgery of modern slaves – the political convicts.

Ideological brain-washing was pretty effective too. Thoroughly culled, one-sided information used to sculpt the mentality of the Soviet people for decades! The ideals of the Common Good were gradually replaced by the ideals of specific welfares for the communist party which was going to “take care” of the people afterwards. The ideal of socially fair community was replaced by the ideal of universal mediocrity.

Dissidence was prosecuted even after Stalin’s death. Even the independent study and interpretation of Marx’s works lead to merciless punishment. The only difference was that the rebels were no longer executed or sent to work camps – they were announced to be schizophrenic and sent to asylums.

The new heads of the communist party missed the understanding of true laws of social development as well. Active moral degradation of the Party’s governing body had started and in the beginning of 1980’s the Soviet Union was nothing more than a rotten inside colossus on loamy legs.