How good was life in 1970s Russia?
Seems pretty comfy by Eastern European standards
How good was life in 1970s Russia?
Lucas Allen
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Mason Reyes
The last part is what's important.
Michael Young
Bread lines 10 miles long every day
500 million Ukrainians died of starvation every day
When you bought a car you had to wait until the Soviet Union collapsed before you could pick it up everyday
Jayden Lewis
There were less niggers and mudslimes, so better than Europe now.
Blake Gray
the 60's and 70's were probably the high points in terms of standard of living in comparison to the west. But given the constant decline of agricultural productivity and the constantly diminishing reserve of hard currency, it was a way of life sustained on borrowed time.
I do hate to say it, but the USSR ran out of other peoples money to spend.
Josiah Carter
first off, Russia is pretty big, what you might find in Moscow will be very different than what you find in Yakutsk for instance.
secondly, by eastern european standards it was the greatest that comfy living has ever been by an insanely large margin up to that point in Russia, but don't forget this is in the context of Russia.
Thirdly search up 70s/80s episodes of "eralash" or "epaлaш", those will show you how most urbanized cities life would have been, that was the shit for my generation back in voronezh and khabarovsk
Brayden Nelson
Freezing to death and being murdered at any moment/10
Ian Bailey
I hate this fucking meme
Russia and the USSR had a larger Muslim population than any country today, and Soviet-era Russia was full of African students and diplomats.
The Soviets believed the Cold War could only be won through Africa's full participation in the socialist cause, so they made a huge effort of showing off their cities to impressionable Africans
Jeremiah Sullivan
If you did not have any glaring physical defects, you could get laid any time you wanted. No one gave a shit.
But then again, soviet sexual culture ensured that the most exotic thing you were likely to do in the bedroom was doggy.
Ian Turner
I have never seen an african in voronezh, they were an exotic myth. The muslims we had were good people, raised completely different and with a different mindset than what you might stereotype an extremist religion of peace type today, also educated well.