What was daily life like in the twilight years of the Soviet Union?

What was daily life like in the twilight years of the Soviet Union?

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Probably not all that different from its peak

Judging from your picture: Comfy that's what.

>long lines in run down neighorhoods are comfy


WTF

>Hey Pjotr. What you doing here?
>Waiting for bread you?
>Same haha alright have a nice day.

>Hey Djedushka, another day another food lane amiright?
>Haha yeah but Babushka is making a huge meal and all your relatives are invited.

Yeah. Too bad they didn't have excess ressources and had to rely on community and family to help each other out. Clearly rich westerners are more happy. Diversity is our strength after all.

>Diversity is our strength after all.
That's what the commies keep telling me.

You know during this time Westerners were both rich AND community focused?

Soviet culture was always known for its hatred of the family unit, religion and fraternisation.

>Windows were filthy as a matter of course in Soviet Russia. During the years I worked there, I never saw a clean one.

>Rats, on the other hand, were commonplace and played merrily among the rubbish bins of apartment blocks and in the entrances of railway termini.

>While most citizens struggled to survive in this suburb of Hell, however, a secret elite enjoyed great privileges: special living spaces, special hospitals, special schools, special lanes along which the Politburo's limousines roared at 90mph.

>hatred of the family unit, religion and fraternisation
That all ended after Stalinism. I guess they still weren't big fans of religion, but it wasn't banned or anything.

>Soviet culture was always known for its hatred of the family unit, religion and fraternisation.
Only 1/3 is true and not for the whole time.

>diversity is our strength
>commies
>Russification
>anti-local nationalism
>ethnically homogeneous countries

Who are you quoting?

Not him but the first two are a paraphrasing of and the others are the refutation. Not that hard to get

Not soviet union, but commie poland, I remember some stories my dad told some anecdotes when he was in his early 20s.
>work at electronic shop as cashier
>somone enters the shop
>"are there colour TVs?'
>"no"
>"So when they will deliver them?"
>"dont know"
>man leaves
And this was his whole job. But sometimes later
>dad goes to his job
>notice bigass line to shop, before it was even opend
>he walks up to random person in line
>"Hey, what are you all waiting for?"
>"They are bringing colour TVs today"
>dad goes at back to the shop, and search for his boss/manager
>"Hey boss I heard they are bringing colour TVs today"
>"The fuck are you talking about? I would know if something like this would be happening"
>One and half our later, truck(s) brings colour TVs to shop,
>they are sold out in under and hour

A little commie joke:
>a man enters a store
>"do you have meat"
>"no, we don't have vegetables, they don't have meat on the store across the street"

Lol in a dark way thats pretty funny. My dad left in the late 80s. He said the meat store used to have a sign up list just to wait in line on delivery day

>What was daily life like in the twilight years of the Soviet Union?

It was bad and to some extent comfy at the same time.

It was bad because there was nothing on the shelves, you waited long hours to get shittiest products imaginable, the infrastructure was depressingly bad and getting worse. People were awful, everyone treated everyone else like a mortal enemy. The TV spewed out moronic propaganda. If you complained loudly, you would be in trouble, though not too much in the very last years of the regime. But the worst part is that you knew that some few hundreds km away there was a completely different and far better world, in which people live in relative prosperity and freedom, and where there were colours and happiness, as opposed to the uniform grey and grim reality of our home. That was truly depressing.

The comfy part was that you didn't live in fear of what will happen to you next month or next year. Your literally couldn't be fired for your job, at worst you would be reshuffled elsewhere. Half or more of workers didn't do shit at their job and still got paid their meagre salaries. It was good life for those who like stabilisation, lots of free like and those who don't want anything beyond most basic necessities.

t. someone who remembers it.

>>While most citizens struggled to survive in this suburb of Hell, however, a secret elite enjoyed great privileges: special living spaces, special hospitals, special schools, special lanes along which the Politburo's limousines roared at 90mph.
This. The privileged class had special deliveries of food delivered to them daily, while the rest had to stay in queues when there's something in the stores. You hear that there's toilet paper or sugar or some shit like that and you run to the store to wait several hours and hoping you can get some. Ridiculous.

Soviet Union wasn't socialist.

>lots of free like

free time

So basically heaven for NEETs?
If it wasn't for the disparity in technology I could totally see myself living in a society like that.

>United Socialist States of Russia
>Not my version of socialism
Lol

>So basically heaven for NEETs?

Somewhat yes, a heaven for lazy NEETs.

You just couldn't spend your time with computer. TV was also hardly an option. You'd have to settle with books and newspapers.

Yeah, weird losers didn't really have a great time in their mandatory 2-3 years of conscription tho.

>You just couldn't spend your time with computer. TV was also hardly an option.

That's what I meant with technological disparity. The rest sounds like heaven. Though I guess you can find some Veeky Forums-NEETs who would enjoy doing nothing but working a completely brainless and inconsequential job and reading all day.

*starves*

>Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea
>Not my version of democracy
Lol

>United Socialist States of Russia
Didn't even notice this.Was this intentional or are you retarded?

I guess in the future with automation and easy energy access Communism would be better than Capitalism

Communism was supposed to happen when we had Automation according to Marx.

>United Socialist States of Russia
Jesus Christ

I don't see anybody in that pic starving

And as automation picked up there'd be less and less work until nobody had to worj

just because the government promoted a nuclear family because that happened to be the model that ended up in more profit for enterprises doesnt mean they were "community focused" lol. America at this point was as individualistic as always, and just had you believe they weren't when they needed you to die in a war or make them money

>It was real communism tho dont believe the cummie meme XD

Yeah I see some fatties.