I’m also skeptical about the low number of sample countries when they divided up socialist countries by income level. Many of their standard errors for the Beta(pe) are considerably larger than the coefficients meaning there is not a statistically significant relationship.
However, one thing that struck me was in Table 3, their R-squared values are low for this type of model - meaning that political system doesn’t explain much of the variation according to their regression model. I think multivariate regression models were pretty uncommon back then. Their observation was that the less educated an individual was the more likely they were to believe the break up of the Soviet Union caused harm to their country.īTW, the 1986 article from the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) link you posted was fascinating. I don’t think that what the Gallup researchers found. Lithuania ranks like top 3 in highest suicide rates, in the world. “Lithuania accounted for 0.3 percent of the Soviet Union's territory and 1.3 percent of its population, but it generated a significant amount of the Soviet Union's industrial and agricultural output: 22 percent of its electric welding apparatus, 11.1 percent of its metal-cutting lathes, 2.3 percent of its mineral fertilizers, 4.8 percent of its alternating current electric motors, 2.0 percent of its paper, 2.4 percent of its furniture, 5.2 percent of its socks, 3.5 percent of underwear and knitwear, 1.4 percent of leather footwear, 5.3 percent of household refrigerators, 6.5 percent of television sets, 3.7 percent of meat, 4.7 percent of butter, 1.8 percent of canned products, and 1.9 percent of sugar.” They were definitely better during socialism. I wouldn’t call Lithuania a succes story anyways, lots of them don’t earn enough so they turn to criminality, they go to Western Europe to steal etc.
First question is, why do we always hear about "survivors" and refugees, but hardly hear the voice of the people that, according to polling data, are the majority of people? Second question, if socialism is so atrocious why does it poll so favorably among people that experienced it? I think I have a decent idea for the answer to both of them but I am interested in your takes. I'll also give two questions to generate discussion. However, I want to present a few polls that show data that suggests people tend to prefer living under socialism. You always hear about refugees and survivors of socialism.
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