Only 2% owned a color tv
Only 4% owned a car
The average household in the USSR was 25% the size of that of Seattle Washington (the city with the smallest average apartment size in the US-themselves roughly 2/3rds the size of the largest found in Tallahassee, Florida)
The Soviet diet was 44% carbohydrates and starch, and had 1/3rd of the protein of the US diet
More doctors than the UK but had healthcare so poor the life expectancy trended downwards over several decades of peacetime
You could not be "unemployed"
You could not easily choose your occupation or leave your occupation for another
Being over 20 minutes late to work was a criminal offense resulting in a 25% pay cut for up to six months
Other notable facts
41% of Germany's industrial production capacity was dismantled and reassembled in Russia after the war
26,000 engineers, scientists, aviation experts and their dependents were similarly transplanted to Russia
Stalin admitted to Eric Johnston of the US Chamber of Commerce that two-thirds of Russia's industrial capability both during and prior to the war was due to the assistance of the United States (with much of the remaining third a Western European import)
Fred Koch built or designed the majority of the Soviet oil refineries; oil and related products account for something like 60% of Russia's current day exports and 20-30% of their entire current day economy
Without the NEP and extralegal economic activity the USSR would have likely continued down the pattern of repeated self-induced starvation; Stalin formally abolishing the NEP in 1928 precipitated the Soviet Famine of 1932
an informal economy, the "Second Economy" existed throughout the USSR's existence and is estimated to represent between 15-30% of the USSR's economic activity
