Some photos of the Evil Empire
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For all of that, she'd be forced to stand on line in the hopes of getting a few rolls of toilet paper.
Some photos of the "good life" in Moscow. This was the best it got in the 1980s under the Soviets. The absolute best, the rest of the Socialist Paradise had it far worse...
http://io9.gizmodo.com/a-photographic-peek-at-daily-life-in-1980s-moscow-1518242587
Some more photos, just before the collapse. Note the first one. It seems the Soviets didn't save the girl from prostitution after all....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255693/Last-pictures-life-iron-curtain-collapse-USSR.html
Socialism sucked for most... it would especially suck if you got medication from the end of the month quotas which often were not quite up to par...
You were lucky if you went to the universities, their quotas were strict.
You could not get a car without several years waiting for a permit to buy one. Then the "choice" of car was no choice, you got a black sedan with windows that wouldn't even roll down. Not kidding.
Families often shared apartments because there was not enough housing.... my teachers at the Defense Language Institute would tell me of the time of Stalin... Some families would turn other families in to the state so they could get their apartments for a few more square feet.
Some photos of the "good life" in Moscow. This was the best it got in the 1980s under the Soviets. The absolute best, the rest of the Socialist Paradise had it far worse...
http://io9.gizmodo.com/a-photographic-peek-at-daily-life-in-1980s-moscow-1518242587
Some more photos, just before the collapse. Note the first one. It seems the Soviets didn't save the girl from prostitution after all....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255693/Last-pictures-life-iron-curtain-collapse-USSR.html
Socialism sucked for most... it would especially suck if you got medication from the end of the month quotas which often were not quite up to par...
You were lucky if you went to the universities, their quotas were strict.
You could not get a car without several years waiting for a permit to buy one. Then the "choice" of car was no choice, you got a black sedan with windows that wouldn't even roll down. Not kidding.
Families often shared apartments because there was not enough housing.... my teachers at the Defense Language Institute would tell me of the time of Stalin... Some families would turn other families in to the state so they could get their apartments for a few more square feet.
And just for y'all's entertainment:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...32_1_prostitution-rubles-convertible-currency
Prostitution, the world's oldest profession, was alive and well in the USSR, even though the state's position on it was that it didn't exist and that only Westerners had the problem...
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...32_1_prostitution-rubles-convertible-currency
Prostitution, the world's oldest profession, was alive and well in the USSR, even though the state's position on it was that it didn't exist and that only Westerners had the problem...
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What happened to Watermark, after all this revealing information??
Has he run off to weep on Ivan's shoulder??
Has he run off to weep on Ivan's shoulder??