The USSR had the highest physician-patient ratio in the world, triple the UK rate, but many medical school graduates could not perform basic tasks like reading an electrocardiogram.
15% of the population lived in areas with pollution 10x normal levels.
By the US poverty measure, well over half of the Soviet population were poor.
Around a quarter could not afford a winter hat or coat, which cost an entire month’s wages on average (the equivalent of £1700 in UK terms).