Gleb Kuznetsov: "The Soviet Pension System produced injustice"

“I think about 82%, which, according to Thomas, are against raising the retirement age. About their motivation. A significant part of these people sees in the“ retirement age ” - 60 by 55 (separately, by the way, humiliating for women) - the social conquest of the USSR and the echo of the excellent social protection system, which we allegedly lost. Along with the“ best in the world ”of education and the same clear“ free “free medicine,” writes, - writes. Political scientist on his Facebook page.

“But it was precisely the shortcomings that erase the injustice of the pension system that was one of the main ulcers of the late Soviet reality.“ Event ”, in which only the conditional old Bolshevik could receive conditional 300 RE, and any other was doomed to 120 plus 20% at best. The social and rural pension in the 35-50 RE. Fixation of the“ maximum income ”of a working pensioner and so on and so on and so on the like.

The Soviet pension system, created in those days when the very “age of survival” was negative - that is, life expectancy was significantly lower than the retirement age, and not higher than it - as the situation corrected, it produced more and more injustice, with the peak of pension poverty and injustice in the 80s. And this, by the way, was one of the important factors of social support for perestroika.

And today, the fact that in the 30s-50s a rare Soviet man lived up to 55, and the state in its wisdom established a bar of a pension of 55/60 (stupidly saving under the guise of social policy) are ready to declare the peak and triumph of Soviet humanism.

And this age itself is perceived as a certain "feudal privilege" by many. And in many ways it is - given all these endless groups of preferential pensioners, all these office "disabled people" with super -heavy working conditions in the press services of law enforcement agencies, courts, etc., etc. I understand when we are talking about miners, but when it comes to epaulettes that have never left the limits of the garden ring? Absurd.

We must conduct that pensions should become more, which must be terminated - and very strictly terminated - labor discrimination of people over 50, about the elimination of gender inequality, about the revision of beneficiaries, so that we do not really have 30 -year -old pension generals, and so on and so on. About the establishment of the same justice. About the pension menu that would avoid equalizing and encouraged people if you want to continue their work. And, of course, all this is impossible without changing the retirement age from the gold standard of 1932.

Only in this case we can come to a situation that our people's sadders love to describe so much - "Western pensioners drive around the world." That's why they go that they do not have the best Soviet pension system in the world. And if it were, they would sit at home, they would plant potatoes with cucumbers. "