In 1917 the country was at the peak of his greatness. The last prewar year. No riots, harvest wonderful, Golden Ducat. Even the first Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU N. With.Khrushchev nostalgically recalled (in 1959) their younger years: "I got married in 1914, twenty years old. Since I had a good profession — mechanic, I was able to immediately rent the apartment. It had a living room, kitchen, bedroom, dining room. As a mechanic in the Donbass before the revolution, I was making 40-45 rubles a month. Black bread cost 2 cents a pound (410 grams) and white — 5 cents. Fat was 22 pennies per pound, an egg, a penny apiece. Good boots cost 6, maybe 7 rubles. But after the revolution, earnings declined, and even very price — rose strongly in... years after the revolution, and it pains me to think that I'm working, living under capitalism is much better than the workers live under the Soviet regime. Here we overthrew the monarchy, the bourgeoisie, we have won our freedom, and people live worse than before
