1930s: The USSR is the first communist state in the world, in the precursory stages to a half-century of Cold War with the United States.
Today: Russia is now a capitalist democracy with a freely elected Federal Assembly. The Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from capitalist West Germany fell in 1989, and the USSR officially collapsed in 1991.
1930s: The Russian economy has failed to recover from the revolution. There are shortages of almost every type of product, and widespread suffering.
Today: In decline since the fall of communism, the Russian economy suffers from organized crime and the severe devaluation of the ruble.
1930s: Famous political figures from the Bolshevik Revolution are tried and executed for.....
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