For many Western critics of communist strategies of economic development, the unavailability of consumer goods common in the West in the Soviet Union was a case in point of how communist rule resulted in lower standards of living.
至于许多西方人对共产主义者经济发展策略的批评，西方常见的消费品在苏联的匮乏被视为共产主义是如何造成生活水平降低的典型案例。