I have a couple of relatives who lived in the USSR and they were also very happy with their lives there. They liked that they had all their needs met by virtue of being a citizen, they had a good standard of living no matter what kind of job they did, they got tons of vacation time and the government would pay for them to go on vacation.
I think they believed in the socialist project more broadly, but they weren’t as ideological as this woman seems to be. I think they were socialists because of what socialism could do for them rather than champions of the revolutionary cause or whatever. That’s part of the beauty of a post revolutionary, functional state: people have the luxury of not caring about politics so much if they don’t want to.
Also, idk if it’s just the editing, but grandaughter is disrespectful as hell and needs to be hit with a sandal
I think they believed in the socialist project more broadly, but they weren’t as ideological as this woman seems to be. I think they were socialists because of what socialism could do for them rather than champions of the revolutionary cause or whatever.
As someone living in a hellstate, the idea that average people would just get onboard with socialism because it’s cool and good and beneficial is like…
she needs to take her lib ass granddaughter out of the will and see how much she likes capitalism then
I spoke with a Russian who lived through the fall of the Soviet Union. He told me that at least under the soviet union, you may not have had a lot, but you always had a roof over your head. Under the capitalist regime, there was no limit to how poor you were allowed to be.
Yeah but why would you want a society that cares for the basic needs of everyone when you could have funko pops instead
But what about the lines?
proceeds to enter a never ending waiting list to get surgery in the “public” healthcare system while rich people can legally pay for skipping the line
lines must have been soo romantic , you meet all your neigbous , chat with them etc… talk about what you gonna cook…
I cant find it now but i read a long while back that you’d take your order to a store and come back for it later, or wait around for it
I think this might have been mentioned in the day in the life of the soviet union photo book from the 1980s
I’ve always said they should let them cook
We used to be a country (the Soviet Union
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I work for myself!
Scoffs
No sweetie, you’re working for shareholders who give you a tiny piece of your work’s worth so you can feed yourself another day, not much unlike taking care of your cattle
grandma so based that the soviet anthem plays around her whenever she opens her mouth
Way more coherent than Biden.
