In 1961, Khrushchev declared that even if the USSR was behind the West, within a decade its housing shortage would disappear, consumer goods would be abundant, and within two decades, the "construction of a communist society" in the USSR would be completed "in the main".
在1961年赫魯晓夫宣稱雖然當時蘇聯在經濟上落在西方之後，但在十年之內蘇聯便會解決國內的住房短缺，同時生活物品也會變得豐裕，並且稱在二十年內蘇聯便會完成「一個共產主義的主要建設」。