Preliminary Gini Calculation for Reality!USSR

I haven't done it thoroughly (yet?) but it seems full Soviet Communism really does do the good thing to the Gini coefficient. 

Do note that I can't be arsed to remember whether it's 'supposed' to go up or down. Which is better? I dunno, it's Communism, trying to conform to its norms is stupid. 

Let's do a quick sketch.

Upper line is approximately a natural wealth peak, the lower what you get under Communism. 

In the latter, most of society is quite equal, especially as the ends are truncated by starvation, war, or concentration camp, and no longer count in the Gini equation. The peak of the middle spike is lower than what you get without anyone meddling, making the broad, surviving middle higher in comparison.

Further, the Official salaries of someone like Stalin are much lower than his de-facto salary. Stalin basically owned the whole country. If he wanted to sell a portion of it for personal gain he would have had to jump through hoops, but he most certainly did at times. "Stalin gave himself a salary of 10,000 rubles. But, Stepan noticed, it was all “pocket money” for the omnipotent first Bolsheviks who allegedly amassed great fortunes from the ashes of the former Empire during and after the Revolution." Given he just kind of owned the whole shebang anyway, there was rarely any need to go through the charade. Probably did it a few times to fulfill a childhood dream of a grand heist, and then gave it up as not worth the trouble.

There's a legend that says when someone asked him for a bit of charity, he had to gently steal it from his security detail. Officially very poor. Unofficially, he was snubbing the petitioner, offering him a fraction of someone else's pocket change, and rubbing his own soldiers' faces in their dishonour.

Likewise, Party officials were often paid in kind or in ritual rather than in cash, making it easy for Communist scholars to tout their Equality, Officially speaking.
>“After 1948, we could only order food for about 8,000 a month, everything above that sum should have been paid for.” (900-1,200 rubles a month was considered a splendid salary at the time.)
https://www.rbth.com/history/331909-how-much-money-did-lenin-stalin-make

(Rituals such as being able to demand 'voluntary' charity from your security detail.)

Another great way to improve your Gini coefficient is to kill all your young folk, truncating the junior payrolls. By obediently fighting Hitler for DC's sake, for example.

Result: a nice good Gini calculation. And nearly everyone wanted to leave. What a coincidence. It's almost like having a 'good' Gini coefficient is, in fact, bad. Indicates a lazy, ignorant, or fundamentalist whackjob country. How strange.

Don't forget that it's rising living standards that makes the peasants revolt, not lowering living standards. It's when tyranny loosens that they get uppity, not when it tightens. In other words, if the peasants are being gross, it's probably because the country is especially good, and they're greedily (enviously) grabbing for more, thinking the upper classes aren't violent enough to make them regret it. "I would give my kid a whooping for saying what I'm saying right now, but if they're going to just let me get away with it..."