What Life in the Soviet Union Was Like
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Date: 2022-12-29
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christopher
2 Peter 3: 9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Hebrews 11: 6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
John 3: 16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1. 15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
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2 Peter 3: 9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Hebrews 11: 6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
John 3: 16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1. 15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
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kellygreen5556
In 1976, I visited Leningrad from the USA. I went there with some sympathy for Socialism as I knew the pitfalls of Capitalism. It only took a short visit to become disappointed. The shops were almost empty and when a delivery truck showed up, people got on line without even knowing what was being delivered. I was told it didn't matter- they would buy it and sell it again or trade it with someone.
While the parts in the video about homophobia and Anti Semitism need to be told- prejudice is not unique to the old Soviet Union. There was a time gay relationships were illegal in most of the USA and in the UK too. The great Alan Turing was driven to suicide in England. England honors him now but that didn't do him any good in the 1950's. Queen Elizabeth - who later approved Gay Marriage - said nothing at the time. While she is reputed to have had many openly Gay friends and staff members throughout the years, I don't know if she ever protested or spoke against any of the UK's anti Gay laws. The same is true of her mother ( the Queen Mother) who, I have heard, - especially loved to have flamboyant guys as her staff members. They were entertaining to her.
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In 1976, I visited Leningrad from the USA. I went there with some sympathy for Socialism as I knew the pitfalls of Capitalism. It only took a short visit to become disappointed. The shops were almost empty and when a delivery truck showed up, people got on line without even knowing what was being delivered. I was told it didn't matter- they would buy it and sell it again or trade it with someone.
While the parts in the video about homophobia and Anti Semitism need to be told- prejudice is not unique to the old Soviet Union. There was a time gay relationships were illegal in most of the USA and in the UK too. The great Alan Turing was driven to suicide in England. England honors him now but that didn't do him any good in the 1950's. Queen Elizabeth - who later approved Gay Marriage - said nothing at the time. While she is reputed to have had many openly Gay friends and staff members throughout the years, I don't know if she ever protested or spoke against any of the UK's anti Gay laws. The same is true of her mother ( the Queen Mother) who, I have heard, - especially loved to have flamboyant guys as her staff members. They were entertaining to her.
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Sergi
Engineer salary - 4 rubles per day, the Cleaner - 2. 50 rubles per day,
- minus 12% income tax,
- minus 1 rub per day Rent, electricity, gas,
- minus 1 rub per day for pocket expenses, - like 60 kopecks for lunch in a canteen with flies, and 40 kopecks for a pack of cigarettes,
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- a dozen eggs - 1 ruble, a bottle of sunflower oil- 1 ruble, a kg of sugar - 1 ruble,
- kg of butter - 3. 60 rubles,
- Food in the USSR was expensive, so were clothes,
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- for a long time you will save up for a Suit - 160 rubles, - Coat - from 180 rubles,
- half-boots of the shitty type - 25 rubles, appeared once a month,
- earflaps from a rabbit - 36 rubles, - appeared 2 times a year, - deficit
- color TV - 750 rub
- car - 5000 rub
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Engineer salary - 4 rubles per day, the Cleaner - 2. 50 rubles per day,
- minus 12% income tax,
- minus 1 rub per day Rent, electricity, gas,
- minus 1 rub per day for pocket expenses, - like 60 kopecks for lunch in a canteen with flies, and 40 kopecks for a pack of cigarettes,
--
- a dozen eggs - 1 ruble, a bottle of sunflower oil- 1 ruble, a kg of sugar - 1 ruble,
- kg of butter - 3. 60 rubles,
- Food in the USSR was expensive, so were clothes,
--
- for a long time you will save up for a Suit - 160 rubles, - Coat - from 180 rubles,
- half-boots of the shitty type - 25 rubles, appeared once a month,
- earflaps from a rabbit - 36 rubles, - appeared 2 times a year, - deficit
- color TV - 750 rub
- car - 5000 rub
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education
The thing I really want to hear most, though I'd guess it's simply too much to ask, is the first-hand testimonies of people who actually LIVED in the various Soviet Union countries during the post WW2 years and were still there well into the post-Soviet era by a considerable number of years and are thus well enough familiar with both sides of the coin, the more honest voices of this the better.
FAR TOO OFTEN these voices of peace in the Soviet Union were of those born into bourgeois/petty-bourgeois families who ran, like Ayn Rand was, or people who only spent a, frankly too, short amount of time under one of the regimes and thus can't really give a balanced and, as much as is possible, unbiased perspective of both. comparable.
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The thing I really want to hear most, though I'd guess it's simply too much to ask, is the first-hand testimonies of people who actually LIVED in the various Soviet Union countries during the post WW2 years and were still there well into the post-Soviet era by a considerable number of years and are thus well enough familiar with both sides of the coin, the more honest voices of this the better.
FAR TOO OFTEN these voices of peace in the Soviet Union were of those born into bourgeois/petty-bourgeois families who ran, like Ayn Rand was, or people who only spent a, frankly too, short amount of time under one of the regimes and thus can't really give a balanced and, as much as is possible, unbiased perspective of both. comparable.
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HUSSAR
During the 1960s and 1970s, the Communist Party elite rapidly gained wealth and power while millions of average Soviet citizens faced starvation. The Soviet Unions push to industrialize at any cost resulted in frequent shortages of food and consumer goods. Bread lines were common throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Soviet citizens often did not have access to basic needs, such as clothing or shoes.
The divide between the extreme wealth of the Politburo and the poverty of Soviet citizens created a backlash from younger people who refused to adopt Communist Party ideology as their parents had.
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During the 1960s and 1970s, the Communist Party elite rapidly gained wealth and power while millions of average Soviet citizens faced starvation. The Soviet Unions push to industrialize at any cost resulted in frequent shortages of food and consumer goods. Bread lines were common throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Soviet citizens often did not have access to basic needs, such as clothing or shoes.
The divide between the extreme wealth of the Politburo and the poverty of Soviet citizens created a backlash from younger people who refused to adopt Communist Party ideology as their parents had.
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GamingCult
There is so much wrong with this video. The USSR had a proletariat democracy. This is a democracy run by the working class - A proletariat dictatorship.
It also had one of the fastest growing economies in history even with sanctions and constant threat from the allied bloc.
Do not get your 'facts' from this video. The biggest problem is that the standard high school history view of the USSR is incredibly wrong. Experiences differed depending on where you lived and when. Western's view of the USSR is just written to demonize the soviets.
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There is so much wrong with this video. The USSR had a proletariat democracy. This is a democracy run by the working class - A proletariat dictatorship.
It also had one of the fastest growing economies in history even with sanctions and constant threat from the allied bloc.
Do not get your 'facts' from this video. The biggest problem is that the standard high school history view of the USSR is incredibly wrong. Experiences differed depending on where you lived and when. Western's view of the USSR is just written to demonize the soviets.
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Кирило
The feeling of nostalgia which is so popular among Americans and West Europeans is terribly misleading, I could tell you as a citizen from a former Soviet country. You guys don't have a slightest idea what you miss from the USSR. The USSR was a prison for all nations in it, it's famine, genocide, wars, homophobia and terror, not equality, balalaika, cars made to last and caviar.
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The feeling of nostalgia which is so popular among Americans and West Europeans is terribly misleading, I could tell you as a citizen from a former Soviet country. You guys don't have a slightest idea what you miss from the USSR. The USSR was a prison for all nations in it, it's famine, genocide, wars, homophobia and terror, not equality, balalaika, cars made to last and caviar.
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TristanExists
Most of my family lived in the Soviet Union, much of my family members had to fight in the war but most of them lived, my mother told me stories about her growing up in her teen years, my great grandmother drank a considerable amount of Pepsi she loved that drink, she'd always asked my mom to go to the nearest Store and buy her some more Pepsi, oh how times were so different
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Most of my family lived in the Soviet Union, much of my family members had to fight in the war but most of them lived, my mother told me stories about her growing up in her teen years, my great grandmother drank a considerable amount of Pepsi she loved that drink, she'd always asked my mom to go to the nearest Store and buy her some more Pepsi, oh how times were so different
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Mister
I had a nurse who told me there was newspaper writings on their toilet paper! that the Americans would fly over in small planes and drop candy for the kids, no one was allowed to have too much money! She said she escaped by risking her life in the trunk of a car.
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I had a nurse who told me there was newspaper writings on their toilet paper! that the Americans would fly over in small planes and drop candy for the kids, no one was allowed to have too much money! She said she escaped by risking her life in the trunk of a car.
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education
It also depends on where you lived. I'd you lived in the country it was very bad: no bathroom, no shower, no plumbing, no running water, no toilet paper, muddy roads, smell like pig shit everywhere, empty stores. I grew up in the city and it was ok not bad
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It also depends on where you lived. I'd you lived in the country it was very bad: no bathroom, no shower, no plumbing, no running water, no toilet paper, muddy roads, smell like pig shit everywhere, empty stores. I grew up in the city and it was ok not bad
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education
as a history major from a post soviet country, i also find it interesting how back in the ussr times u could get ARRESTED for not working. if a police man saw u hanging out during work hours, he would come up to u and question what was going on.
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as a history major from a post soviet country, i also find it interesting how back in the ussr times u could get ARRESTED for not working. if a police man saw u hanging out during work hours, he would come up to u and question what was going on.
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TANUJ
Life was good on fundamental needs and economics was on fundamental needs itself, the dissolution of soviet union was unable to get validated and coup was made
There use to be murders with red terror to make population strictly be leninist
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Life was good on fundamental needs and economics was on fundamental needs itself, the dissolution of soviet union was unable to get validated and coup was made
There use to be murders with red terror to make population strictly be leninist
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Daniel
Noooooooo the USSR was a utopia of happiness and rainbows where everyone was happy and each citizen got a free pony! Thats all American CIA propaganda, America is evil oppressive counter revolutionary evil! >: -(
(Obviously /j)
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Noooooooo the USSR was a utopia of happiness and rainbows where everyone was happy and each citizen got a free pony! Thats all American CIA propaganda, America is evil oppressive counter revolutionary evil! >: -(
(Obviously /j)
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Gary
I remember when my world history teacher went to Moscow and she had to go by the rules leave her keys with a guard outside the hotel room and she had shown us some slides and her pictures were better than that
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I remember when my world history teacher went to Moscow and she had to go by the rules leave her keys with a guard outside the hotel room and she had shown us some slides and her pictures were better than that
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education
3: 55 cars in soviet countries were SO UNRELIABLE, my dad and grandad used to driver them, grandfather had 2 separate engines for one car in case the first engine breaks down
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3: 55 cars in soviet countries were SO UNRELIABLE, my dad and grandad used to driver them, grandfather had 2 separate engines for one car in case the first engine breaks down
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zia
I born in soviet Georgia in 1970s and I never missed the food I never missed anything until the Gorbachev show up and sold his country! Hungry people dont win the Olympic medals
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I born in soviet Georgia in 1970s and I never missed the food I never missed anything until the Gorbachev show up and sold his country! Hungry people dont win the Olympic medals
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Anthony
Not much different from the western European community nowadays, political elite imposed poverty and sanctions by the west has only affected the western community.
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Not much different from the western European community nowadays, political elite imposed poverty and sanctions by the west has only affected the western community.
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education
until Chernobyl. there was always massive corruption. They hide it by making people feel like they have it good. Just like the rich do to us in America.
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until Chernobyl. there was always massive corruption. They hide it by making people feel like they have it good. Just like the rich do to us in America.
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Mike
I was born on 1984 and the video has a lot of inaccuracies, but what can you do - you are just unable to wrap your head around the reality we grew up in.
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I was born on 1984 and the video has a lot of inaccuracies, but what can you do - you are just unable to wrap your head around the reality we grew up in.
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Tushar
American capitalists are the definition of test book evils, they would go to any extent to justify evil saying its basic human nature, lol
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American capitalists are the definition of test book evils, they would go to any extent to justify evil saying its basic human nature, lol
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