4 ms·

If by good you mean not being able to provide food for your family during difficult times, not being able to buy common household appliances even though you and

by dntrkv 13y ago

If by good you mean not being able to provide food for your family during difficult times, not being able to buy common household appliances even though you and your wife work full-time skilled jobs, not having access to world music or culture because the west is "bad", being randomly stopped and harassed by police until you paid them off, being denied entry to certain schools and universities because of your race and/or religion. Sure, there might have been people that had it "ok." But my family, all of my relatives, all my Russian friends that immigrated from the USSR/Russia (except for a few die hard Russian patriots that wouldn't admit any fault in Russia even if it put their family to death) all have the same, general opinion of it. And yes, there were the lazy drunks that loved the fact that they could drink on the job all day, not do a single thing, and never get fired. The incompetent idiots that got jobs in positions they had no clue about, I'm sure they loved their job security. But for the average hardworking people that were trying to create the best life for their families, it was pretty shitty.

mtrimpe 13y ago
Keep in mind I said many, not all, but based on the conversations I had with older people in the Czech Republic when I lived there for a year I'm pretty sure it's a real thing. It's also good to keep in mind that when you get most of your information from people who chose to leave the selection bias is rather high/peculiar.
SpaceRaccoon 13y ago
On the other hand, my parents and grandparents were engineers who worked hard, had a dacha and a boat, went to music school and went on vacations to Crimea, Moscow, and so on- now my father works several hundred km to support our family while the factory my mother worked at went bankrupt because they cannot compete with third-world labour, but in the process she developed a tumor and other health issues from working with chemicals and she cannot afford to get any training for a different job. Also, unemployment benefits will cease soon. Such is life.

by dntrkv 13y ago

mtrimpe 13y ago

Keep in mind I said many, not all, but based on the conversations I had with older people in the Czech Republic when I lived there for a year I'm pretty sure it's a real thing. It's also good to keep in mind that when you get most of your information from people who chose to leave the selection bias is rather high/peculiar.

SpaceRaccoon 13y ago

On the other hand, my parents and grandparents were engineers who worked hard, had a dacha and a boat, went to music school and went on vacations to Crimea, Moscow, and so on- now my father works several hundred km to support our family while the factory my mother worked at went bankrupt because they cannot compete with third-world labour, but in the process she developed a tumor and other health issues from working with chemicals and she cannot afford to get any training for a different job. Also, unemployment benefits will cease soon. Such is life.