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>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 c
by 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 agoWhat percentage want the old Soviet Union back? I don't think you know what you're talking about.
- kranke155 3y agoA decent percentage of people from former communist countries liked it. You had full employment; full housing; low crime and 21 days of paid vacation.