Year;Event;Content
1960;"Creation of the Working Group on Comparisons under SCEA";"Marks the start of formal PPP-based comparison efforts within Comecon"
1962;"16th Extraordinary Session of Comecon; Creation of the Standing Commission on Statistics (SCS)";"Institutionalization of statistical work; the leadup to the Kosygin reform era. Creates a parallel structure to SCEA, leading to future conflicts"
1962;"“Strigachev scandal” over the publication of input–output data";"Highlights the ideological sensitivity of economic data and the demand for openness among experts"
1965;"Publication of comparisons for the base year 1959";"First major result of the Working Group’s efforts, demonstrating the immense time lag inherent in the detailed methodology"
1966;"Moscow conference on the methodology of value indicators";"Peak of scholarly exchange and reformist impulse, gathering leading economists from across the socialist bloc"
1966;"SCS project on price statistics in member states";"Revealed the “great diversity” in pricing principles and data collection methods, a major methodological hurdle"
1968;"Launch of the UN International Comparison Program (ICP)";"Hungary and Poland join; the USSR and most Comecon countries abstain, cementing the socialist bloc’s statistical isolation"
1969;"TsSU meeting on comparison methods (Martynov, Zlomanov, Kudrov)";"A key internal Soviet debate exposing the conflict between traditional (ruble-based) and modern (multi-currency PPP) approaches"