To the Russians here, expecially the younger generations who don’t have own memories of the Soviet times: Do you really have a positive image of the Soviet time? Do you see it as the “golden age” of Russia?
I have a positive vision of 80’s because it was my childhood. The same time i remember the vodka and sugar checks, which can be exchanged in a shop. Deficit as it is.
Teachers were really respected but nowadays every damn Karen can made a scandal in a school and a teacher will be fired.
About ideology – it’s much better when a state have a plan or a mission to achieve something. But it shouldn’t be a religion. Just a mere keikaku is enough.
The collapse of a large country is always a tragedy. Families were separated – a lot of families. To visit relatives – to go to another country is lousy. A lot of people became divided – physically and for political reasons. many problems and quarrels. The economy was split up – the whole damn economy broke down. One manufacturer of things in the first country, another manufacturer in the second country, assembling the product itself in the third. All this does not work well in terms of transport, organization, logistics – when you have three different countries with different laws and borders and different official languages. Everything stopped working, from large strong enterprises turned out to be several small ones, and this led to a decline.
There were many good things in the late USSR. There were many bad ones. One can argue about this for a long time. But the disintegration of the country into many small ones is a really bad thing.
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To the Russians here, expecially the younger generations who don’t have own memories of the Soviet times: Do you really have a positive image of the Soviet time? Do you see it as the “golden age” of Russia?
I have a positive vision of 80’s because it was my childhood. The same time i remember the vodka and sugar checks, which can be exchanged in a shop. Deficit as it is.
Teachers were really respected but nowadays every damn Karen can made a scandal in a school and a teacher will be fired.
About ideology – it’s much better when a state have a plan or a mission to achieve something. But it shouldn’t be a religion. Just a mere keikaku is enough.
The collapse of a large country is always a tragedy. Families were separated – a lot of families. To visit relatives – to go to another country is lousy. A lot of people became divided – physically and for political reasons. many problems and quarrels. The economy was split up – the whole damn economy broke down. One manufacturer of things in the first country, another manufacturer in the second country, assembling the product itself in the third. All this does not work well in terms of transport, organization, logistics – when you have three different countries with different laws and borders and different official languages. Everything stopped working, from large strong enterprises turned out to be several small ones, and this led to a decline.
There were many good things in the late USSR. There were many bad ones. One can argue about this for a long time. But the disintegration of the country into many small ones is a really bad thing.
atleast soviet union had free healthcare..