Social obligations and capitalist circumstances

The Kremlin dreamers

I do Not envy the people who live obscenely long and the memory is not lost. Remember how much was promised the Soviet-Russian government its naive people. And people today still patiently waiting. Forgive us readers for the repetition, but the coolest sixty years ago, swung Khrushchev, to the surprise of many, almost without any problems, replaced the too early deceased Stalin.
In 1961 at the XXII Congress of the CPSU Nikita bluntly stated: by 1980 the USSR will be built communism! Communism managed to live a little. But we must pay tribute to Nikita: the country had a housing boom, thanks to the "Khrushchev" millions of people moved from communal flats, basements, barracks in a separate housing.


The Next Secretary General of the party Central Committee, Brezhnev, was a bird of such high flight, and maybe more sensible, communism kept quiet, it suited the "developed socialism". So Leonid Brezhnev promised to 1990 just to feed the country. In 1982, six months before Brezhnev's death, was adopted by the food program of the USSR, but did not Ilyich №2 we fill feed. Moreover, in the early ' 90s, we gorged on food stamps, and remember the terrible.

Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986 also took this opportunity to bless the people and promised that by the year 2000 every Soviet family will live in a separate apartment or house. This has developed a state program of the USSR "Housing-2000". In the 90-ies of the people, of course, was renamed the "Crooks-2000". After 2000, the crooks in housing was, as you know, much more, but the housing for a long time any more does not become.

But almost everyone who has a housing need and at least some penny for the soul, wholesale herded into the mortgage. And with the interest which otherwise as a robber will not name. But the goal is to have the "Housing-2000" was a high – achieving provision of living space to 22.0-22.5 square meters per person. Note, this is now considered a common area with balconies, bathrooms and other "excesses" of civilization. In Soviet times there was only the living room area.


What is the result? From 1986 to 1990, housing grew from 14.6 to 16.5 square meters per person. In 2018, according to Rosstat, the total area of residential premises per one resident of 26.9 square meters. Again please note: this is the total area of all six-foot bathrooms with toilets and other facilities.

Our current leader, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, too, has not remained aloof from large-scale projects for the people and the country as a whole. One of them is the Concept of long-term socio-economic development of Russia till 2020, the implementation of which we are trying to assess, not as experts, but simply from the point of view of common sense.

Us boots need

It is, we recall, was approved by the government in November 2008. Alas, on many points, and this policy document did not take place. After parsing, strategic, or, if you will, the conceptual flights and very sensitive fiscal topics, it's time to talk about the welfare of the population. That is about the social sphere. Because any "good" macroeconomic indicators are not worth a penny if the people live in poverty.


I write about poverty for many years and each time I feel ashamed. Yes, our parents and grandparents lived in poverty, but now in the XXI century. And we are not somewhere in Africa where you can survive on two dollars a day, according to the standards of good international organizations, feed bananas and wearing a loincloth. We need boots. (Would be worth "boots" to be quoted.)

We Have the poverty threshold is equal to the subsistence minimum (PM). But it is a loose concept. First, this "minimum" is different for children, people of working age and for pensioners. Secondly, the PM is very different by regions. But there is also "the average temperature in the hospital".
In recent years, the national average poverty level is around 13 percent. The concept-2020, deliberately turned to the people in front (and to the oligarchs and officials, we have to think backwards), defined: 6-7 percent by 2020. What we have now? According to the latest official Rosstat data, is 12.7 percent, or 19 million people. And what we have achieved in fifteen years?

Right, a shame.

Drink tea in the new house?

You Can bring the numbers (we do), and you can just look around. Agree, such a scale individual housing construction few people will remember. All murmur: a small salary, besides half of it is in the envelope. Banks deny credit. And drat, new homes, as the mushrooms grow. But to grow, but not all Mature.

I Looked last summer in his village in the suburbs. Only two "new Russian" of the approximately twenty ordinary Russians lined up in two or three years, others Drudge for ten years or more. Have lasted the old age has come, earnings or does not, or they are shrunk like shagreen leather. Itself is not to drink tea in the new house. God forbid grandchildren.

Landmarks of the Concept, and it was divided into several stages, suggested that at the final stage, from 2012 to 2020, real disposablemonetary incomes of the population should increase by an average of 70 percent! And what was it in reality? If at the beginning of the implementation of the concept of real (i.e. net of inflation) incomes grew in 2014 they began to fall.
Only in 2018 statistics scraped the bottom of the barrel as much as the growth of 0.1 percent. In 2019 – plus 0.8 percent. Do not forget that this "growth" is not the starting year, and the previous. According to estimates RBC, a total of 2012 to the third quarter of 2019, the real disposable monetary incomes of the population decreased by about 5 percent.

Perhaps the good rhymes: "American sanctions". Some experts say that the Concept-2020 has not worked just because of the sanctions. Possible. Although, if you think about it, she has not worked long before. Back in 2011, bison, Higher school of Economics, the government instructed to modernize the Concept, that is the development plan of the country. The Professor did not disappoint and created a new "development Strategy 2020" for 800 pages. Alas, this Strategy was never adopted. And old Concept, no one was going to either cancel, or edit.

PS Smart people say that the man should always plan the work: day, month, year... And even if you try very hard never teaches to do everything. But if you do not plan, the result will be even worse. Apparently, and in public Affairs. But if I have one head to think, plan, what it is my problem. The Affairs of state are planning hundreds of heads. (Note, for a good salary.) And if those plans and spent billions of the state money is zilch, something very sad. I understand that you were deceived again.

Yes, the government has been a "renewal of blood". Mikhail Mishustin, it seems, die hard. And he was given carte Blanche. Even for that short time, he has already shown his charisma. I wish all really great ideas of the President are implemented and not left mossy leaves history with a sincere review your author.