>>18Welfare isn't Communism. In fact, the USSR, despite having a relatively high unemployment rate immediately following the revolution, largely eradicated the problem by the 1930s, and being "unemployed" (defined as neither working nor seeking work) was outlawed. As far as unemployment figures go, they did fairly well even during the Great Depression - although employment rates started to falter after the end of the Great Patriotic War due to the end of the war economy and a failure to keep Soviet industry modernized. And most of the unemployed in the Soviet Union did
not receive welfare benefits, as being unemployed was illegal, and so those who were unemployed tried to hide that fact from the government. Certain skilled workers in seasonal professions were given a partial stipend during the parts of the year when their skills weren't in demand, but such benefits were not available to the common man. The Soviet Union did make some progress in providing public housing in the 1950s, however it was mostly limited to urban areas and failed to keep up with population growth in the 1960s and later.