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Communism and the Russians were only getting the bare essentials to live off of and the US had people that were happy and the government did not run the US citizen's lives. So while the Russians were standing in line to get half of loaf of stale moldy bread for one day the US had a better life than the soviets and no one was on the same level as Russia was, so basically no one was rich or poor in Russia they were all poor and the US had our own separate private lives.
The Great Depression affected the Soviet Union drastically because they needed machinery and technical staff to install and maintain the machines. Many Americans and Germans came to the USSR looking for jobs as technical consultants because they couldn't find jobs in the USA or Europe.