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Subject: Soviet Union everyday life, 1961
Written By: belmont22 on 01/17/13 at 6:12 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExHCAjRsZhA
Pretty damn interesting if you ask me. They make it look like a pretty good life, though spartan in many ways. I wonder what it really was like.
Subject: Re: Soviet Union everyday life, 1961
Written By: AL-B Mk. III on 01/17/13 at 12:05 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExHCAjRsZhA
Pretty damn interesting if you ask me. They make it look like a pretty good life, though spartan in many ways. I wonder what it really was like.
Well for what it's worth, East Germany was a sh!thole. :P
Subject: Re: Soviet Union everyday life, 1961
Written By: Inlandsvägen1986 on 01/18/13 at 4:22 pm
They make it look like a pretty good life
Yeah, that's the same case in a lot of movies about East Germany. I can't understand why people today want their old country back. There are actually people in the East today who complain about today and believe that everything was better before 1990. It was not:
-Non-senior citizens could never visit western countries (except for very urgent cases)
-You had to wait 10 years to be allowed to buy a new car
-You couldn't buy fruits which are normal today; or they were extremely expensive
-You weren't allowed to watch western TV or listen to western radio
-News were manipulated by the government
-They opened letters to the West or from the West; stole money from the envelopes; didn't forward all letters
-It was very easy to become a suspicious person. If you were one, the 'STASI' spied at you for your whole life...
...
A 'good' thing was: The unemployment rate was pretty low.
Subject: Re: Soviet Union everyday life, 1961
Written By: AL-B Mk. III on 01/18/13 at 7:13 pm
Yeah, that's the same case in a lot of movies about East Germany. I can't understand why people today want their old country back. There are actually people in the East today who complain about today and believe that everything was better before 1990. It was not:
-Non-senior citizens could never visit western countries (except for very urgent cases)
-You had to wait 10 years to be allowed to buy a new car
-You couldn't buy fruits which are normal today; or they were extremely expensive
-You weren't allowed to watch western TV or listen to western radio
-News were manipulated by the government
-They opened letters to the West or from the West; stole money from the envelopes; didn't forward all letters
-It was very easy to become a suspicious person. If you were one, the 'STASI' spied at you for your whole life...
...
A 'good' thing was: The unemployment rate was pretty low.
Obviously belmont has never seen a Trabant up close. ;)
Subject: Re: Soviet Union everyday life, 1961
Written By: danootaandme on 01/18/13 at 7:17 pm
They weren't allowed to sell, play, or otherwise broadcast anything by the Beatles. What kind if a world is that?
Subject: Re: Soviet Union everyday life, 1961
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 01/18/13 at 9:37 pm
They weren't allowed to sell, play, or otherwise broadcast anything by the Beatles. What kind if a world is that?
You listened to Hey Jude quietly on Radio Free Europe and hoped your kids didn't tell the Secret Police!
:o
Subject: Re: Soviet Union everyday life, 1961
Written By: AL-B Mk. III on 01/19/13 at 1:51 am
They weren't allowed to sell, play, or otherwise broadcast anything by the Beatles. What kind if a world is that?
You listened to Hey Jude quietly on Radio Free Europe and hoped your kids didn't tell the Secret Police!
:o
In Soviet Russia, friends get by with a little help from you! :P
Subject: Re: Soviet Union everyday life, 1961
Written By: warped on 01/19/13 at 2:42 am
They weren't allowed to sell, play, or otherwise broadcast anything by the Beatles. What kind if a world is that?
No Beatles?
http://gifs.gifbin.com/042010/1270812020_duck-hunt-dog-commits-suicide.gif
Subject: Re: Soviet Union everyday life, 1961
Written By: Inlandsvägen1986 on 01/19/13 at 3:03 am
No Beatles?
My father lived in the East and he wrote 'I like the Rolling Stones' on a school table. Now that was a lot of trouble for him ;D
Subject: Re: Soviet Union everyday life, 1961
Written By: AL-B Mk. III on 01/19/13 at 3:03 am
Beatles? They didn't need no stinkin' Beatles!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_inyc2yfs3I
(You know, I just pulled up a random 1960's Russian song from YouTube as a goof and I have no idea what the f**k that guy is saying, but that song IS kind of catchy.)
Subject: Re: Soviet Union everyday life, 1961
Written By: danootaandme on 01/19/13 at 5:12 am
All rock and roll fans should see this
How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin. Great docu, real fans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzaYMOc1EWU
Subject: Re: Soviet Union everyday life, 1961
Written By: AL-B Mk. III on 01/19/13 at 11:17 am
The Soviet Union's answer to Deep Purple. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTvawVLbhq4
Subject: Re: Soviet Union everyday life, 1961
Written By: Paul on 01/27/13 at 1:20 pm
They weren't allowed to sell, play, or otherwise broadcast anything by the Beatles. What kind if a world is that?
Quite amazing (to this day) how four sh!tkickers from Liverpool (Ringo's words, not mine) inspired a cultural shift...not only to the East (eventually), but also almost instantaneously to the West...
You have to remember that the top of the British entertainment tree in those days was headlining The Palladium...nothing else!