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I did not live in USSR so I can't say how many of each they had but the country I lived in also had all of those and I can say there was and order of magnitude
by dmz73 5y ago
I did not live in USSR so I can't say how many of each they had but the country I lived in also had all of those and I can say there was and order of magnitude less of them than what you see now in the equivalently sized (population wise) west country.
You are also correct that many of us wanted to live like the TV stars we saw lived in the western TV shows and not many people wanted to cross to the east.
But if you think that life in the east was all horror all the time or most of the time or event 1/1000 of the time then you have been brainwashed even more than what we were.
No one wants to go back to the political system of USSR but imagining that life for most people was horrible is just naive. Not understanding the circumstances and motivations of your opponents is a mistake that will cost us all dearly.