I'm only in my sixties, so yes, I remember. But that's not true. As I said – if you were in privileged middle class, yes, that was your life. I could never drea

I'm only in my sixties, so yes, I remember. But that's not true. As I said – if you were in privileged middle class, yes, that was your life. I could never dream about it although my parents were educated people. Both worked in factory with thousands of workers and every year union got 5-7 vacation tickets (путёвка) in spas around Black Sea. Of course only people close to party and upper management got these. This wasn't the case only once – workers (including my parents) demanded that one ticket must be given to worker who had cancer in the last stage. My personal experience in last decade of Soviet Union was basically same although as a young university student I could already travel on my own with my peers. This wasn't in any way easy though. Your experience may very different if you worked in military important factory etc. Second half of eighties was already a very different story though.