>>18066061
>per cent of 1929
do you not understand basic mathematics you absolute retard

imagine you produce 10 tons of steel per year then open a steel plant that produces 100t, that's an increase of 1000%, now imagine your neighbor produces 1000t then increases production by 100t, it is an increase of 10%, but your neighbor is still producing far more than you

this principle applies here, Russia was an agrarian economy unlike the industrialized US, France, Britain and Germany at the time