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Or you can become a homeless, unemployment person and have 365 days of vacation per year. Imagine that.... Err, sorry in Soviet Union you were not allowed to do

Or you can become a homeless, unemployment person and have 365 days of vacation per year. Imagine that.... Err, sorry in Soviet Union you were not allowed to do that, these commies had to ruin the last bastion of human freedom! No worries, in the USA they still have it. I heard plenty of families take up on the opportunity.

guntars 8y ago
You’re not wrong, homelessness was illegal in the Soviet Union and not in the “we will not rest until everyone has a roof over their heads” kind of way, rather more like “you better be staying at your registered address (raspiska) OR ELSE!” That’s one way to solve homelessness.
- amaccuish 8y ago
  I think you mean propiska (прописка)
- entry 8y ago
  Absurd. 1st. After revolutions and civilic wars in 1922 Soviet union got 4-7 millions homeless childs. How did these children survive? Without education and socialization childs can't even communicate normally. They stole and even killed for money. They represented a virus epidemiological risk. So Soviets resolve the problem very hard to gave roof and education for that childs and in 1924 they got "only" 280 000 homeless childs. Without mass shootings for nothing. It's very fan sometimes imagine what in the heads of the people thinking Stalink kills every second in Soviet country. If so who building cities, working on farms and factories, who was fought and win WWII? Oh.. Try to read less of propaganda. 2nd. Since that childs was illiterate and all time moving searching for food and money nobody can't register them in City Hall. The register process have name "propiska" in mean fixate persone leaving address. Not "raspiska". Raspiska is just mean confirmation document writed and signed by you. You'll be wondered but today in capitalistic Russia got "propiska" too. As the Spain for example. But earlier "propiska" in Soviets was used to prevent mass moving people from one region to another. It's true. But you must take this true in context of the time and events. It was really hard times.
ericd 8y ago
No one is saying that the US is perfect, it has a huge number of problems, some of them very severe. But that doesn't detract from how incredibly awful the government of the USSR was for many years, especially under Stalin, and it's an enormous mistake to look back on it with nostalgia as some people who feel like capitalism is a bad system seem to be doing.

guntars 8y ago

You’re not wrong, homelessness was illegal in the Soviet Union and not in the “we will not rest until everyone has a roof over their heads” kind of way, rather more like “you better be staying at your registered address (raspiska) OR ELSE!” That’s one way to solve homelessness.

amaccuish 8y ago
I think you mean propiska (прописка)
entry 8y ago
Absurd. 1st. After revolutions and civilic wars in 1922 Soviet union got 4-7 millions homeless childs. How did these children survive? Without education and socialization childs can't even communicate normally. They stole and even killed for money. They represented a virus epidemiological risk. So Soviets resolve the problem very hard to gave roof and education for that childs and in 1924 they got "only" 280 000 homeless childs. Without mass shootings for nothing. It's very fan sometimes imagine what in the heads of the people thinking Stalink kills every second in Soviet country. If so who building cities, working on farms and factories, who was fought and win WWII? Oh.. Try to read less of propaganda. 2nd. Since that childs was illiterate and all time moving searching for food and money nobody can't register them in City Hall. The register process have name "propiska" in mean fixate persone leaving address. Not "raspiska". Raspiska is just mean confirmation document writed and signed by you. You'll be wondered but today in capitalistic Russia got "propiska" too. As the Spain for example. But earlier "propiska" in Soviets was used to prevent mass moving people from one region to another. It's true. But you must take this true in context of the time and events. It was really hard times.

ericd 8y ago

No one is saying that the US is perfect, it has a huge number of problems, some of them very severe. But that doesn't detract from how incredibly awful the government of the USSR was for many years, especially under Stalin, and it's an enormous mistake to look back on it with nostalgia as some people who feel like capitalism is a bad system seem to be doing.