Indeed, no socialist country was ever left to live in peace - after Ww2, Soviets and Eastern Bloc had to always stay at knife's edge, being prepared for WW3 and diverting their GDP to weapons industry at the cost of consumer industries. Thanks to immense warmongering from US - even worse with Reagan, who brought the world to the brink of nuclear war 2 times during his stint. However, even with that, they succeeded in providing all of those to their people, despite having less than 15% of world's resources and diverting most of it to defense industry. In contrast, after Ww2 US ended up in control of more than 75% of world's resources, directly or indirectly, and yet it quickly pushed a large segment of its population into poverty. Without even talking about blacks, minorities who were were always at the bottom of the pyramid.