Was the USSR really that bad to live in?

Was the USSR really that bad to live in?

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Maybe the bigger cities were okay

if you were smart no

I would say intellectually and culturally wise ussr was better than murica

it was fine in mid 60's-mid 80's
before it was a nighmare
after it was poor collapsing shithole
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>smart

You mean if you were a member of the "glorious" communist party then no

Good luck being smart in russia let alone ussr

It was a different time
A simpler time

seemed chill senpai

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I can confirm first hand that it was shit

Läti was always shit

USSR objectively had one of the best educational systems and one of the most reading population in the world, so i wouldn't be so sure, roma.

Snitching, gulag, crappy consumer goods, shit food (BUT MAH GOST), censorship and propaganda everywhere. Party elite lived like aristocracy in luxury apartments and special shops ONLY for party elite. Then there was Afghan war, witch was a disaster. USSR raised generations of paternalistic idiots that even now demand that government and state need to do everything for them and for free. Not to mention they can't self organise for shit to improve their lives and living conditions.

It was good if you were a bureaucrat.

Shit for everyone else.

>Implying all the Baltics are not the same shit with different languages

>Oh Estonia...wanna be Nordic, ok

You all have to take into consideration that Soviet people never knew life could be much different. Its not like they were allowed to travel abroad and see Capitalist conturies. They were content with what little they had.

Eesti is the best baltic country by far

Whats the bet you are under 30 and dont actually know?

Finland shilling for Estonia

>well i never

Estonia is the Finland of the Baltics

Finland is the Ireland of the Nordics

Your mind had to be rather simple too tho.

Soumi knows whats up

Don't bully Esti.

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Finland is the best nordic country to live after norway. Stay mad potatoboy

My father lived in the russian part of the USSR from the 50's until it collapsed, he has some very interesting views. For one, he thinks post-Stalin USSR was just socialism, and that communism died with Stalin. He also said that it was better then in the aspect that you didn't need a Mercedez and a milla in your checkings to get a good looking wife. Money was scarce but you knew you could go out and have a good time and spend all your money because the following day you would be good, and you wouldn't be thrown out on the street. They also didn't have to pay 2/3 of your monthly income on housing rent.

Overall I'm not for it and he tries to give me a really unbiased view, but thats what I recall him telling me

the entire population made sure they were drunk all day

yes

If you grow up in a society that has no connection with the outside world, you get a bigger sense of freedom in overall.
Nobody cared about the lack of freedom of speech in the USSR, because nobody had anything to say.
Sure it is an opressive regime if you look at it from a political and a historical point of view.
People who lived there want back though, not just sibuls, minu peres kõik eestlased, aga igatsevad mineviku

Gonna visit Riga with my Eesti friend on 1st of September, EBIN !

We've never been same, all three are different. It was a soviet propaganda telling we are all the same so we would mix together into soviet shit.

It was bad from most perspectives you look at it, but the fact that life was so simple and there was nothing to worry about fascinates me

Leedu and Läti are like twin sisters though, its just Eesti that stands out

>Money was scarce
could one not do some sneaky services for a bit of extra money, or would people snitch him/her out?

2 quick questions

will I get stabbed for being Danish if I visit your side of the tundra? and how good and readily available is your weed?

Are the baltics ethnically diverse? Or are you all the same people

Same way people here could do some sneaky services? (Drugs, petty theft, hit jobs, etc)

Money did not really matter because you always more than enough of that. The shit part was that there wasnt much to buy for it

My parents and older siblings were born in the USSR, they can confirm that it was incredibly shit unless you were the kid of a high ranking officer or government official

If you want to know the answer to this question, you have to ask someone who actually lived there.
You probably won't find that person on this board.

It's like how only the Germans who lived in Germany from 1933-1945 can know what life was like. Your GI grandpa doesn't know anything.

>communism died with Stalin
Lol how, when in the 1980's they only promised to build communism by 2000. USSR never lived with a communist economic system.

>minu peres kõik eestlased, aga igatsevad mineviku
>mineviku

Peaaegu oleks läbi läinud Vasja, peaaegu...


Anyway - when "Computer class" is imitating typing on wooden plates with keys drawn on them, the state loses any and all credibility and earns its rightful place in the trash bin of history.

Also when the "State of science pioneers" opens new factories for hand woven ferrite core computer memory in the 1980s.

>If you grow up in a society that has no connection with the outside world, you get a bigger sense of freedom in overall.

How exactly that even makes sense. If you dont know how other countries interpret freedom by their policies then how you have proper understanding of freedom.
I have talked much about ussr with my granny. One of the pros was that it was easy to get a job. But in every level everything was corrupt. Everybody basicly stealed in its direct sense.

It was ok. But it was safe. No crime, but a lot of corruption.

And for children it was paradise. That is what my mother has told me.

Did your mother live in USSR, if so, in which part?

The freedom comes from not overthinking life and not worrying about things that do not concern you. People focused on their wives, their kids, their jobs. It led to a happier nation and a to a generation obvlivious to problems our one has

Väike kirjaviga võib ikka mõnikord ettetulla.
Vaataksid sa minu kooli gümnasistide kirjandeid, kõik on täiesti kahveväärne

I've always wondered about if the average Russian citizens ever dreamed or were inspired to "make it big" like those of us in western countries.

Back in the 1980s, stories about the Soviet lifestyle were so bland and uninspiring. There was no motivation to succeed, life was simple, and it's like Russian technology (military, space, entertainment, medical, etc.) was always a step behind ours. It worked, most of the time, but it could have been so much better and more efficient.

Of course, there was always the fear of the secret police storming your home at 3 am, and you would never be heard from again.

The bureaucrats and those with Party connections had the better housing and luxury commodities, and the rest of the citizens were the bottom feeders of whatever was left.

But hey, the trains always ran on time.

My mother said yes, they had a shitty life in Siberia. Europa/USA is much better.

Yeah, pretty much. None of my relatives regretted that shithole collapsing - even during the nineties, which were not very peaceful or very prosperous years.

For simple mind it is overthinking otherwise i find it is understanding(at least giving effort for achieving such state). Overall i have from older generations who camed from that time they really don't describe that as a happier times.

I have heard*

She lived in Kazakhstan. There was some oil there and her parents were both oil engineers. Her father was a high ranked person in the soviet oil business and was the first private person to have a phone in his apartment in the village they lived in.

It was terrible. No rap music, no weed, trannies were put in insane asylums. Muslims were sent to gulag. There was no cultural diversity or enrichment.

Depends if you like to live in society in which most of the intellegent and decent people are either dead, in prison or have escaped to another country and where the worst elements of society make up the influental class you would love it.

Subhuman inbred slavnigger cuck

Are you retarded? USSR even imported blacks here from Cuba and African shitholes to study (and impregnate). Not to mention all of that Muslim minority in USSR.

This

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Russian

>Afro-Russians
>40,000–70,000
>out of 150+ million Soviets
Wow. I never new the USSR was such an enriched and progressive paradise where every colour of man was welcome.

(((USSR))) was a feminist country. All of you pathetic sovietboo larping neckbeards who think it was "anti degeneracy" or whatever are the cringiest sperglords on the internet

>ettetulla
>lausete süntaks vene keele oma

Vasja, sa ei peta kedagi.