Wrecking (Soviet Union)

"inflicting damage", "harming") was a crime specified in the criminal code of the Soviet Union in the Stalin era.Distinctions among the three categories in the sub-articles: As applied in practice, "wrecking" and "sabotage" referred to any action which negatively affected the economy, including failing to meet unrealistic economic targets, allegedly causing poor morale among subordinates (e.g. by complaining about conditions of work), lack of effort, or other incompetence.The results obtained from the census were at least 8 million people short of the expected outcome and immediately classified.The formal organizers were accused of "wrecking" and sent to camps, and the shortage was officially presented as caused by their negligence and acts of sabotage.The actual measurement error, as estimated by statisticians in the 1990s, did not exceed 1.5%, and the disappointing result was caused by the huge loss of life that occurred during collectivization, the Famine of 1932–1933, including in Ukraine (Holodomor), and the mortality rates in the Gulag.