Soviet Union and corruption

Why did Russia, Ukraine, and other former Soviet Socialist Republics of the Soviet Union generally have less corruption in government before the dissolution of the Union compared to now?

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Usually better to live in an oppressive empire than right after its fall

That's bullshit. Educate yourself. Article from 1988.
fee.org/articles/blat-corruption-in-eastern-europe/

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>evil empire
fastest fall of an empire in history

> less corruption

>fee.org/articles/blat-corruption-in-eastern-europe/
>implying USSR didnt die after Andropov's death
>implying in 80s it was superpower, not rotting corpse of USSR

It was corrupted since it's birth, nothing fucking changed. Modern Russia haven't changed either.

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>not real ussr!

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hard to be corrupt when you're starving

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it had lots of corruption but on a much smaller scale because the private property and enterprise was illegal
if you were an official you'd get yourself and your relatives nice apartments and cars and a relatively decent life - which was beyond reach for plebs
but with capitalism you can snatch yourself whole factories for nothing

totalitarian state control played a role too

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>less
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They weren't. The SU was nepotism incarnate, evenmoreso than today.

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First of all, USSR was corrupt. And it's debatable if all post-soviet states are more corrupt now than before dissolution.
As for Ukraine, the government is just dysfunctional, the Constitution and laws don't work from the very top to the very bottom of society, everything can be solved with a bribe. And that's perfectly fine with current ruling elite.
Soviet elite was Nomenklatura(Bureaucrats). They may have been incompetent, but at least their goal wasn't to rob the country as much as possible and fuck off abroad. In the 90s this system collapsed, government became a total joke and oligarchy(predominately jewish) became the new ruling elite. And funny thing is they are not even good businessmen, they just were in the right place and time to buy former soviet property dirt cheap. But they didn't improve/modernize it and made it competitive in the market economy. They just suck it dry and when it stops giving money, they scrap it altogether. These kind of people shouldn't not run the country.
Russia is pretty similar, although Putin does keep Russian oligarchy in check. Still it's not much better than Ukraine.

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Because they were sent to work camps or shot, like in China today. Some of them fled the country.

Today corrupt politicians can get maximum 5-8 years if any at all or home arrest.

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>have less corruption in government before the dissolution of the Union compared to now
Are you retarded?
Soviet government was one big corruption.
Party was officially above laws and was officially enjoying benefits unaccessible to "lower classes".
Post-soviet governments are shit, but at least they pretend to obey laws and everything is open to anyone who has money to pay.

One good indication is size of "shadow economics" middle-class has to engage on daily basis.
In USSR times, it was close to 90%, you literally couldn't buy anything on official market, even food had to be bought via black market if you wanted something other than expired bread. You could officially get free apartment and buy a car -- but in reality you needed to pay lots of bribes so you would get decent option and wouldn't be moved down in queue.
In Yeltzin times it was about 60%, most jobs paid you in "envelopes", in cash w/out registering it anywhere to evade taxes, stores started selling foreign stuff and good food openly, but would often illegally ask you to pay in USD. USDs had to be bought from street changers operating illegally. Apartments market was still very criminalized and full of illegal deals.
In Putin times its now about 20-30%. Most companies are now paying "white" wages, USD shops don't exist, apartments market is very heavily regulated, need of bribes on lower levels is gradually decreasing as everything gets automated and processed via internet and electronic documents. Corruption as major thing exists only in upper echelons of power, far out of touch for ordinary people. It affects us in indirect ways, as stolen money from infrastructure means infrastructure is shit, but that's completely different thing from having to buy meat from black market every day.

Before opening the thread I thought you are a mutt, not much difference tho. There was corruption, and a lot; not in form of currency, but in form of services.