How was life here?

How was life here?

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full of memes

couldve been worse

better than now

why was greece not into commie?

Free from bourgeois exploitation

Also

They're catching up

never knew that Latvia and Estonia had the same flag tbн

SYRIZA are fucking traitors

They actually had a civil war over communism

shit at first then less shit later
it's also a shame that they went against religion

zero crime, no unemployment, top quality grocery products(everything was bio). quality education and lot of suppert for young families

youtube.com/watch?v=_oh1xY72LFI

t. Ikibeyshit

I think they are little diffrent
look at the shape of the waves

I am Greek

Hm, now that I look at them closer, yeah, you're right

nie udawaj greka

This is not very revealing. How was it in terms of quality of life, overall well-being, happiness, how did things in economy work different, etc?
Iirc they were occupied by the lads, not the Soviets.

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It was fine as long as you

1. Kept your mouth shut.
2. Didn't care how much money you make
3. Didn't feel need to have your own car
4. Weren't disliked by neighbors
5. Didn't care what sort of job you have
6. Didn't mind that people who are more socially skilled than you have more of everything because of contacts
7. Were good at stealing shit from your work, or ascetic enough to deal without

Otherwise you suffered from frustration and depression at least, threats and imprisoment or even torture and brainwashing and ultimately death.

Latvian looks based desu

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>when Poland needs commie powers to go into space

>Why soviet union needs to pull an ukrainian engineer out of gulag to be able to even enter the pissing contest with the west

>same flag
This is conflicting.
Also I heard the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia is growing a lot.

culture.pl/en/article/the-communist-regime-in-poland-in-10-astonishing-pictures
soviet-empire.com/ussr/viewtopic.php?t=38923
in soviet russia poland can into space

>ukrainian

youtube.com/watch?v=mn14O6urNJ0

and also this
culture.pl/en/article/10-surprising-eating-habits-from-the-communist-regime-era

>tfw my dad owned during commie times
>3 cars
>100k Csk a month
>2 houses
>casino
>3 restaurants
just honestly working in late 80's and early 90's

There's no conflict. If you're a loser with no skills, no ambition and no opinion, communist authoritarianism is better for you.

>Guaranteed job
>Guaranteed roof over your head, even if it's in a commieblock with one toilet per floor

>communist party is growing a lot
Yes and no. It attacked 15% in the past when a particularly meaty corruption scandal was fresh in media but now it's below 10% (which is still 10pp too much).

>>casino
disgusting

Sure thing buddy.

there were no / few western products and you had a smaller selection of goods
getting a job was afaik easier and you could have a stable future easier than now
economy was severely fucked and the state regulated pretty much everything
wellbeing was meh
people regularly outed others for jealousy / spite

well "owned"
you couldnt really own it, "long time lending" would be much more appropriate
the houses were on his name though and one restaurant
it wasnt really a casino, its just how its called, it was just super fancy restaurant,
the kind that has been built in 16th century and has been there ever under the same name ever since.

>waiting for 6 hours in line to buy some toilet paper, bread, and "meat"
>the meaty pulp they're selling you is like 50% flour and gelatine
>people drown their sorrows in cheap vodka, alcoholism and depression everywhere
>fuck decadent architecture, let's shit up the landscape with glorious gommieblocks
>all the media are owned by the party
>if you dare to criticize the current system and/or our Greatest Allies from the East friendly militiamen will be happy to point out flaws in your way of thinking by beating the shit out of you
>Coca-Cola is filthy western poison made from potato beetles (seriously), similar bullshit story goes for everything that's available there and not available here
Everyone knows about how gommunism damaged our economies, but imo the damage it dealt to our mentalities and culture was far worse.

also I think I heard about people who were held at gunpoint for having american relatives visit(?) or something

Even a hard life is bearable when you do not know a better one exists.

Khrushchev and Kennedy argue over which of these countries there is greater freedom of speech.
- In the USA Us anyone can criticize America - said Kennedy
- Oh, here in USSR we also have a freedom of speech - anyone can criticize America - happily said Khrushchev

Pretty shitty tbqhwy, lad. I did enjoy the social cohesion of it as a kid though, there was always shit to do and stuff being organized. Of course, I was 9 when the wall came down, so I never had to live the oppressive part of it once you got old enough to care about shit like freedom.

Dad hated that shit with a passion though, as soon as the border was open we fucked right off, hence current flag.

t. GDR fag

Cars were uglier and fewer, for certain.

What is this: it's glowing and doesn't fit into a butthole?

A Soviet device for glowing inside a butthole.

They are not wrong about Coca-Cola though. That shit can be used for cleaning the toilet.

It was death.

Gastric acid is much stronger that citric acid or whatever they use and you're still fine.
(Nah, i don't drink it too)

So can baking soda. Or even vinegar.

In fact, vinegar is probably one of the most agressive cleaning products because of its acidity, but you won't see vegan hipsters talking shit about it...

>zero crime
meme

>no unemployment
Because there were literally made up jobs just to keep employment high. Also no need for technological inovation as there was still enough demand for low-skilled jobs. Eveyrone got basically the same shit wage,

>top quality grocery products
mega meme

>everything was bio
literally what? agriculture was full fo chemistry

>quality education
that's why our unis always end up in top rankings...oh, wait

>lot of support for young families
the only truth

well first of all the eastern bloc wasn't as homogenous as some westerners might think. The quality of life differed a lot in these countries.

Good.

here in my oblast if you didn't have a job and they caught you they sent you to a prison/brick factory to make bricks

I mean it literally. Gommie newspapers in Poland claimed that, according to their """reliable sources""", Coca-Cola is actually made from potato beetles, and they were serious about that. That's how absurd their propaganda was.

we used to be the cool liberal gommies, open to the west.

a lot of people are nostalgic now, except in slovenia and in part croatia, because our economies still havent recovered from the war and or shitty nineties. serbia, bosnia, macedonia, montenegro are yet to recover to 1989 levels.

>except in slovenia and in part croatia,

There's a bunch of yugonostalgics here as well.

And they're starting to blend with the neo-hipster-gommies.

same as today
shit.

At least you had toilet paper and meat. In RSFSR these things were considered luxury, only high-ranked officials were able to afford them.

Go play Everlasting Summer or something and find out yourself.

why would you miss yugoslavia
you have both based slavoj the ideology slayer *snff* and empress melania

>slovenes are the second most powerful race on the planet, after the scotch-germans

what about the filipinos?

Much better than now. USSR was the best thing happened to Russia, especially the period of 1929-1954.

close third
duterte is working on it tho

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why are they arresting that altar server?

>cultural marxism
There's that meme again.....
What does multiculturalism have to do with the economic principles of Marxism?

Pretty comfy.

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the perpetual butthurt syndrome

People are always bitching about shit. Even when a young group of IT enterpreneurs gets foreign funding to create a good project that simultaneously exposes the bad workings of the parliament in an effort to force the parliamentarians to improve, people will bitch about it.
So naturally, because the present isnt' literal nirvana on earth and they have happy memories of their childhoods back in the days, they'll yearn for yugoslavia.

One of the lefties to the right has a commie star on his T-shirt. What kind of schizo bait is this?

>666

Shit was to fucking good to believe, Georgians actually loved each other and cared for each other.
There was nothing like "unemplyoment" or "crime". Look at my great Homeland today, it's a total shithole and only got better in last time.
Just look at my Flag, i had to leave the country because i actually loved the Georgian SSR with passion, i loved everything of it, even was a gommie. Today we Georgians are spread out everywhere, we are no longer a people united i guess..... even tho Georgia is pretty fine tbqh

Bearable but shit.

On one hand, you didn't have to care about almost anything. On the other, everything was atleast two levels below the Western standards and some things were unheard of entirely.

Don't listen to commie apologists and nostalgics. The whole system was untenable. They might've been better off but that's because we were literally eating through our future.

I think one of those pics is Indonesian

>everything was atleast two levels below the Western standards
What changed?

Why did you leave the United States? People in Georgia seems pretty friendly to me.

We are just one level below or about the same now. Also, we can leave the country.

Kys

its one level now

in commie times platic bag from some western shop was luxury and people were wearing them with pride for years

Fuck you, Cletus

>Also, we can leave the country.

Reminds me of a story from back in the days

>late 1940s, early 1950s, still hardcore gommunism in yugo
>grandfather lives near the border, is chopping some logs just about 5km away from it
>2 people come past, start asking about where the border with austria is, where this and that place is and so on
>they continue on the road towards the border
>30min later a bunch of army guy drives past
>"did you just see 2 people walking by, how long ago, etc."
>grandfather tells them, they go on
>some time later, they drive back, two bodies in the truck

The sad and ironic part of it is that they were geodesic surveyors, but the central "command" or whatever failed to notify the border office that they were gonna be doing some surveying.

This, the only people who miss gommie times are the ones who never had to live under communist or had power during that time. An average person will look back with fear at those times
Every time there is family gathering and my grandma shows me her old pictures she always says the one thing
>"you're luck you were born after 1990, you didn't live during communism, you were just trying to survive those 70+ years of your life hoping that maybe your children will have a life you were deprived of"
>inb4 well my grandma said it was okay!
If you're poor no system will matter to you, it was the same then. People who miss communism are the ones who like i said had power or were poor and gommies gave them bus to school and a pair of shitty shoes.

shit

not a thing.

kek

if you use the republics flags in the USSR you may as well use them in Yugoslavia as well

>How was it in terms of quality of life,
Shit
>overall well-being,
Low
>happiness,
People were living their lives those times too so they had their private ups and downs but the regime was depressing in general. People knew the things are very wrong in the country.
>how did things in economy work different, etc?
Everyone was equally miserable and made 10$ a month. There was no point in working hard or studying.

That is truly sad.
I have a doubt: after the WWII and the Warsaw pact who was your """""president"""" or the most important person/the one who decided/the general secretary or whatever you want to call it A.K.A. The Dictator?
Was it Stalin? Or did you have your own shitty communist government?
By the way, have you read 1984 from George Orwell? If so, could you tell me please if life in communism was like the book one?
I have always had that curiosity over communism.

>ukrainian
not real

Much better than now. Socialism was really great, that's truly the Golden Age of Russia.

>made 10$ a month

Back then one soviet ruble was equal to 2 dollars.

1945-1948 was a tricky period. There was an official pre-war government in London and Stalin-installed puppets in Poland. Some people still had hopes that Poland could be a democratic country. But after the falsified elections in 1948 the commies gained full power.

This guy was our first dictator after WW2:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolesław_Bierut
>Bolesław Bierut was a Polish Communist leader, NKVD agent and a hard-line Stalinist

>By the way, have you read 1984 from George Orwell? If so, could you tell me please if life in communism was like the book one?
I did. Very much so. The propaganda's power and pitting people against eachother was perfectly how it was in commie states.

>Back then one soviet ruble was equal to 2 dollars.
Perhaps because it was very hard to get rubles out of the URSS?

*Sorry the elections were actually in 1947
And basically the thing that meant installing communist puppets in Poland was this referendum:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_people's_referendum,_1946
Which was obviously falsified too

Exchanging currencies was illegal

great

>This guy was our first dictator after WW2:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolesław_Bierut
Besides being a hard-line Stalinist, did he make his own decisions or was he a Stalin puppet?

>I did. Very much so. The propaganda's power and pitting people against eachother was perfectly how it was in commie states
I was thinking more about those weird blocks were plumbing doesn't work, the food is shitty everywhere and you only had one WC for the whole living block. Was it so or is this an Orwell's exaggeration?
Also, did you have those weird entertainment activities that made you waste the whole day or is this just book fiction?
BTW, thanks for that info, I reallyappreciate that.

>Besides being a hard-line Stalinist, did he make his own decisions or was he a Stalin puppet?
He was a 100% puppet. All our dictators (called 1st secretaries) obviously had to do anything the USSR wanted.

>those weird blocks were plumbing doesn't work, the food is shitty everywhere and you only had one WC for the whole living block.
Yup that's how it was.
youtube.com/watch?v=RHaWKUlor08

>Also, did you have those weird entertainment activities that made you waste the whole day or is this just book fiction?
Well people were forced to do parades praising communism
youtube.com/watch?v=HlkCs7ou8vA

I think Albania had it worse, they were basically North Korea.

fffffffffffffabulouse

senior

absolutely fffffffabulouse

I would have loved to live there for a day.

Oo oo 'member the Cold War? Yeah it was fentastic!!!

Too smart for that.

Here we go.

>people idealized Hoxha
>very poor
>used to produce 16 movies per year which are pretty good even nowadays actually
>some infrastructure changes were made and people were given houses and jobs for free
>we weren't completely isolated, some tourists were allowed to enter but not vice versa
>extreme totalitarianism
>almost no crime because everyone feared the regime
>friends with URSS, second gen people nowadays know some Russian
>friends with the Chinese for a while, they were said to like our folk music
>broke up with both
>all alone
>Hoxha dies
>democracy yay
>if you talk bad about Hoxha to elders, they will keep you there for 3 hours explaining how good comrade Hoxha was

if you want to know how life was

you should look at USA

what eastern yurope went through yesterday, north america is now about to go through

Hoxha was a type of retard not even the Soviets would've accepted
Pissed off the Soviets to support China making his country a solitary little speck surrounded by ruskie satellites, then destroyed the economy to build muh bunkers, then pissed off the Chinese
Truly awe-inspiring