December 26th: End of the Soviet Union

It wasn't quite impossible, you could get anything for a bottle of vodka, and if we wanted sausage or other meat stuff for a birthday in the family we just had to wink at the local shopkeeper (who was in good relations with us) and maybe in three months when the bithrday was due, she slipped you some.

And how do you people think i got to live in this house where from i am typing this post - did we BUY the materials for it? NO! It all depended on where you worked and who you knew and that is exactly what benefits you got for yourself.

And when abroad, you often had a snoop with you, be it the tour guide who visited the local KGB station after the trip or one of your trip mates. On solo trips your destination was more likely a bretherin republic, hardly France, Canada. You could just bring back evil thoughts from there, who knew huh? Maybe the citizen of USSR would have gone mentally insane when seeing a store more then half full of everything.
The Russian paranoia was insane and quite illogical, and bloody hilarious when thinking about it now.

In mars? 

you mustn't have lived on the mars ,to know that human life is impossible there.

I don't want to be too provocative, but how many forumers have been in the USSR and experienced there?

Originally posted by Maju or at least an oblast

administrative districts that include a national minority are called kraiy, not oblast. oblast is just used only for districts inhabtied by Russians.

Achtung! Achtung!

Mobilmachung gegen die Sowjetunion!

But not dead like members of my family. 

But if you really really tried, you could keep yourself busy by reading socialist-realistic pieces of literature, watch national television all day, learn true history and that all together would keep you a patriotic worker for a good period of time - you could really make the magic work here people.

Reading these posts while Slayers "Angel of death" is rumbling in my ears, makes a very morbid scenery. Supporting the Third Reich shouldn't be a problem here for some of these guys. The bloodier rulers are already prefered i see, what is Hitler but just a school boy next to his eastern teachers.
And i don't think tzarist camps are anything comparable to GULAGs. The number of the camps was far greater and i don't think the tzarist soldiers left you naked outside for thumb-sized mosquitos to literally eat you alive or make you run inside snow with your bare feet for rehabilitating reasons. The GULAG was basically a place where every guard had the right to live his wildest fantasies off of you. Every peasant got to hold power there if he had enough heart to kill random people.
The GULAG is an evolved state of the childish tzarist camp system, don't put them in the same category, it is funny in a very sad sad way.

The Soviet Union was a state ruled by blood what are you actually refering to as good there - free medical care and the fact that you were taken off the streets and put to work? I think The Third Reich cured a lot of unemployment for the populous there after the economical crash, the nazis are still the sickest of sick, i so not see the logic here? I don't accept the death of thousands of my people for the chance the USSR got to destroy our peasant culture for a ridiculous collectivization project that failed its utopic ideals in every way.

Thanks Kommnenos, i had a lot of fun

What makes me surprised, Communism is more popular in West than in the East.

Actually it makes sence. Those who didnt test it may live with illusions. Except for Bulgarians who enjoyed it (probably together with the East Germans).