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Not fair to whom? The Soviet apparatchiks who enabled Stalin's purges and banned the movie to avoid hard questions? I remember getting a ride, as a kid, in the
by ak217 4y ago
Not fair to whom? The Soviet apparatchiks who enabled Stalin's purges and banned the movie to avoid hard questions?
I remember getting a ride, as a kid, in the back of my great-uncle's Volga and my uncle's Zhiguli. They lived in Moscow while we were in a suburban town (akademgorodok) where a Zaporozhets was a luxury that less than 10% of households could get. The reason I remember is the ride was a yearly treat. This was during perestroika, in Moscow oblast (one of the two richest regions). A few years later glasnost allowed people to see enough movies to conclude that the system was unworkable.
The Soviet Union was an evil empire start to end, built on the bones of its "brother nations" as much as their own citizens. Its troubles can't be explained away by WWII.
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoOff-topic. We're talking about a specific place and time. 1948, not 1970s, 1980s USSR.
- ak217 4y agoThe fact that the situation had not improved after 40 years of peace is about as on topic as can be.
- pessimizer 4y agoThere weren't 40 years of peace between 1945 and 1948.
- dragonwriter 4y agoOr, for the USSR, between 1945 and 1985, either.
- ak217 4y agoRight. After 1945, the Soviet Union didn't suffer war on its territory - it exported it abroad instead, from Korea to Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Vietnam and Afghanistan. Proletariat of all countries, unite! Meanwhile, the economic conditions in 1985 were just as broken as in 1945. I know because I was there, as a brainwashed oktyabryonok, being sent to stand in a bread line with a talon (a rationing ticket for bread). In Moscow Oblast, the most prosperous in the country. The level of naivete and pedantry in this whole discussion is amazing to me, on so many levels.