Thread: Counterbalance

World stands in closed street and it is the need of time to find the better way out which leads toward peace.

Originally Posted by Zampolit

Personally I love good old Soviet times when I got everything I wanted for free and when I could spent almost all the time with my friends and my family. Yeah, that was incredibly great times when I attended kindergarten and nursery.

although not from Russia, thinking back to Sov.era i can think of only one positive thing - books were dirt cheap (although limited in choice). My parents assembled quite an library, parts of which i still carry around (about 2 m3 at last moving )
But everything else - what was positive : beautiful summers at grandmothers place, friends etc , had nothing to do with Sov.Union.
Everything else was crappyly built, smelly, cold.
I throroughly hate the shitty building style (khruschevkas, apartment blocks), the smelly and wavy linoleum in every public building (schools,hospitals etc.), and the thing that people accepted this shit for so long. The double-standard, not being able to speak your mind, being restricted to some place.

And of course this was the end period of S.U. - i was 14 when the bloody nonsense finally imploded. But i feel sorry for my parents, who had to spend their best years in this shit. And i feel sorry for my grandparents, who all died before the 1991.

Life has never ever been so good in this land before* , there has never been so much choices, opportunities etc. And i state this in middle of the current econ. conditions.



* except in 2007 )