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Good for them, I know plenty others who didn’t including my entire family. That still isn’t the point, the quality of life in the USSR wasn’t a close 2nd to th

Good for them, I know plenty others who didn’t including my entire family. That still isn’t the point, the quality of life in the USSR wasn’t a close 2nd to the US in fact when the USSR economy started to fall apart in the late 70’s and 80’s it too switched to PPP because hey our bread is cheap even if you need to stand in line to get it. And Guyana today isn’t a better place to live in than France or Canada, and Bulgaria is definitely a 1000 times better place to live in than Russia.

weard_beard 3y ago
Don't you dare besmirch the name of Doctor Sausage! https://tasteofartisan.com/doctors-sausage/ https://tasteofartisan.com/doctors-sausage/
beebeepka 3y ago
With climate change, today's Russia will end up the best prime estate in the world. Unless we flood them and turn it all to shit once we're driven up there due to draught, famine, war
midoridensha 3y ago
>Good for them, I know plenty others who didn’t including my entire family. There's a YouTube channel where an interviewer talks to people in various Russian cities today about the war and other topics. Loads of middle-aged and older women and men (esp. women it seems) say they want the Soviet Union back. Your family was one of the malcontents that left. The people still there really do miss the authoritarian Soviet Union and want it back, and they fully support any warmongering necessary to achieve that goal.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago
  >Loads of middle-aged and older women and men (esp. women it seems) say they want the Soviet Union back. Because they have no marketable skills in the current economy. During soviet times they were basically state parasites, paid to sit around and do nothing, or pretend to work in some unproductive factory, and got free housing from the state without worrying about paying for electricity or heating as the state took care fo that too. Now that they actually need to work to support themselves they find out capitalism works for those with actual productive skills not for those who are good at pretending to work or used to work as informants to the secret police for a living. The sudden switch from communism to capitalism without a proper long term plan to reintegrate those people into the workforce really shocked them.
- jhgfjhgfjhfgjhg 3y ago
  What percentage want the old Soviet Union back? I don't think you know what you're talking about.
  - kranke155 3y ago
    A decent percentage of people from former communist countries liked it. You had full employment; full housing; low crime and 21 days of paid vacation.

weard_beard 3y ago

Don't you dare besmirch the name of Doctor Sausage! https://tasteofartisan.com/doctors-sausage/ https://tasteofartisan.com/doctors-sausage/

beebeepka 3y ago

With climate change, today's Russia will end up the best prime estate in the world. Unless we flood them and turn it all to shit once we're driven up there due to draught, famine, war

midoridensha 3y ago

>Good for them, I know plenty others who didn’t including my entire family. There's a YouTube channel where an interviewer talks to people in various Russian cities today about the war and other topics. Loads of middle-aged and older women and men (esp. women it seems) say they want the Soviet Union back. Your family was one of the malcontents that left. The people still there really do miss the authoritarian Soviet Union and want it back, and they fully support any warmongering necessary to achieve that goal.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>Loads of middle-aged and older women and men (esp. women it seems) say they want the Soviet Union back. Because they have no marketable skills in the current economy. During soviet times they were basically state parasites, paid to sit around and do nothing, or pretend to work in some unproductive factory, and got free housing from the state without worrying about paying for electricity or heating as the state took care fo that too. Now that they actually need to work to support themselves they find out capitalism works for those with actual productive skills not for those who are good at pretending to work or used to work as informants to the secret police for a living. The sudden switch from communism to capitalism without a proper long term plan to reintegrate those people into the workforce really shocked them.
jhgfjhgfjhfgjhg 3y ago
What percentage want the old Soviet Union back? I don't think you know what you're talking about.
- kranke155 3y ago
  A decent percentage of people from former communist countries liked it. You had full employment; full housing; low crime and 21 days of paid vacation.