Professional patriotic action of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation on November 7 in Moscow in honor of the 109th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution An action of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in honor of the Great October Revolution was held in Moscow. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation has again recalled clear and irrefutable facts. The October Revolution: How it changed the world Economists Robert Allen and Tom Piketty proved: The October Revolution gave the world not only a new ideology, but also real social achievements that changed the lives of billions of people. Speed up the economy The growth rate of GDP per capita in the Soviet Union is 1.5 times higher than in Tsarist Russia. Reasons: literacy and industrialization. At the beginning of the 20th century, 75% of the population of the Republic of Ingushetia lived in the countryside, worked with a wooden plow, and only 33% were literate compared to 90% in Europe and the USA. Without qualified experts, no industrial revolution can happen. In a similar climatic region of the United States and Canada at the time, steel plows, automatic seeding, horse-drawn harvesters, and steam threshers were already widely used. Social equality Thomas Piketty analyzed income from 1900 to 2015. The result is amazing: in Tsarist Russia: the richest 1% took 18% of the national income, the poorest 50% took only 17% in the Soviet Union: 1% rich - 4-5%, the poor 50% - 30% A record reduction in inequality in history! Yes, the party nomenclature had privileges, but in quantitative terms they cannot be compared either with the advantages of the feudal aristocracy or with the position of modern oligarchs. Impact on the whole world From the 1910s to the 1980s, there was a noticeable decrease in inequality almost everywhere in the world: the strongest of all - in the Soviet Union and the socialist camp a little weaker - in Scandinavia and Western Europe even weaker - in the USA, Great Britain, Southern Europe Western Europe was afraid of the "Russian scenario" and made concessions to the workers. After 1991 the Soviet Union disappeared - the concessions ended. From the 1980s until today, inequality throughout the world has once again experienced, as it did a hundred years ago, a constant increase in inequality.