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The day Brezhnev died it was really cold in Vilnius. The school was out and we went tobogganing. I (b. 1973) lived in Vilnius from 1980 to 1986 and after I mov
by high_pathetic 5y ago
The day Brezhnev died it was really cold in Vilnius. The school was out and we went tobogganing.
I (b. 1973) lived in Vilnius from 1980 to 1986 and after I moved to the central Russia I noticed how much better it was in Lithuania. The food, the clothes, the people, everything had more color in it. I was really surprised how much poorer and bleaker the life was in RSFSR, at least in the part where I lived later.
Despite being a part of the USSR, Baltic republics felt more civilized and modern. Many tourists from the rest of the country enjoyed visiting to get the glimpses of the West.
- vogre 5y agoThat was the politics of USSR - to feed the small republics at the expense of russian people. There was supply categories for every region - and most of RSFSR, except Moscow and Leningrad got 3rd or 4rth category, while caucasian republics and Baltics got 1 and second class.
- skeletal88 5y agoThat.. was not exactly true. We had giant pig farms and meat factories, from where almost all stuff that was produced was sent to Russia, whereas meat was scarce in local shops. So if stuff wasn't available here, then it must have been even worse in other places. And at the same time we were producing a lot more meat and foodstuff than the local population would have ever needed, but it was sent to some other places. Instead we got big heavy industry or military factories where the raw materials were brought in to produce useless stuff that we didn't need, that was again sent away to somewhere else. The stupid economics of soviet planned economy..