Disintegration Quotes

“There was nothing in this system not to America’s liking, since this system allowed it to control the non-Communist world by exporting inflation to it, while maintaining a flow of cheap raw materials and goods into the U.S. In effect, the United States didn’t really have to work or produce much if it didn’t want to, and this is exactly what happened.”
― Andrei Martyanov, Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse

“The immediate post-World War II period was the United States’ moment to shine,”
― Andrei Martyanov, Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse

“While the West was developing a whole food abundance by-product industry ranging from “stay in shape” movements to armies of dietitians, Soviet people stood in lines, or used all kinds of irregular distribution systems, such as “gift sets” (podarochnye nabory) for employees of companies and organizations, to get access to high demand items varying from canned crab meat to even canned green peas and high-end cold cuts.”
― Andrei Martyanov, Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse

“In 2020 the Bank of America estimated that “in 1985 it took 30 weeks at the median wage to pay for big fixed costs like housing, health care, a car, and education; fast forward to today when it takes a mathematically impossible 53 weeks of a 52-week year to buy those things.”
― Andrei Martyanov, Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse

“There were many American, not to mention European or Japanese, exhibitions sent to the Soviet Union.”
― Andrei Martyanov, Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse