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People romanticising the idea of communism and USSR probably never lived under such a system or base their opinion on propaganda. That being said, if teachers
by varispeed 4y ago
People romanticising the idea of communism and USSR probably never lived under such a system or base their opinion on propaganda.
That being said, if teachers found you had a talent for engineering and you weren't from a blacklisted family, your life would be completely owned by the state. You would be brainwashed and manipulated to become the engineer the state wants and then as a reward sent off to a prison city living and working with other engineers for the rest of your life. One mistake, wrong comment about the regime and you would end up in the forest with a bullet in your head.
That's why they had some impressive advancements here and there, but in the grand scheme of things USSR was just one big pile of steaming excrement.
- myth_drannon 4y agoI think your comment is purely based on propaganda. The comment is false on so many levels. Maybe be it describes the 30's and Stalinism but nothing like that was from 50's and onward.
- varispeed 4y agoIt was happening https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_city#Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_city#Russia
- int_19h 4y agoClosed cities were a thing, but they weren't prisons. And "you would end up in the forest with a bullet in your head" certainly wasn't a thing from the 60s on.
- anticodon 4y agoPeople denigrating USSR/communism are also repeating the same thoughts induced by the very powerful western propaganda. These things that you repeat: "blacklisted family", "owned by the state", "brainwashed and manipulated", "prison city", "forest with a bullet in your head" - all of them didn't exist in the USSR (maybe for a short period of time after the October revolution). USSR wasn't an ideal society, but you're either inventing imaginary horrors or repeating lies invented by somebody else.