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> Then again, Soviet era was all about community and sharing and working for the good of your fellow man. Having lived there, I can say this is a myth.
by geoka9 7y ago
> Then again, Soviet era was all about community and sharing and working for the good of your fellow man.
Having lived there, I can say this is a myth.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoOf course; this existed mostly in propaganda, but so does the grand-n-parent's claim that not caring about other people is related to USSR. Having being born and lived in a post-Soviet state, and having still living family remembering these times, after many conversations with them I conclude that humans are humans, and there's no specific extra level to selfishness (or selflessness) that's specific to the Soviets.
- Mirioron 7y agoAsk them what they thought about stealing from the state. Was it okay to do? How many people did they know back then that did it?
- TeMPOraL 7y agoWhat kind of "stealing from the state" you mean? The common practice of appropriating materials from construction zones and using them to build/repair one's own house? If so, it's still present today in the west in the form of stealing office supplies from employers (and gas, through running private errands with company car). Bricks or pens, socialism or capitalism, it turns out if you provide people free goods that can be useful outside of their intended purpose, and there's no enforcement to prevent theft, a large enough fraction of people will start stealing, making it a recognizable phenomenon in social consciousness.