Life in communist shitholes during the cold war

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>>2970678
>We're there shops?
No, no shops, also no money, personal property, women, horses, sunny days or music.

>>2972168
If there's no shops how do their cities looks like? no urban life like cafes, etc?

>>2972179
Are you just completely fucking stupid?

>Did you get to decide what commieblock you wanted to live in
No, but if you knew the right people you could pick
>How much personal property did you own?
Your car, fridge, TV, clothes, food, etc.
> How did the average person get food
Bought or grew on his dacha(countryside home)
>no urban life like cafes
Of course there were cafes, restaurants, cinemas, thetares

>>2972189
theatres*

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>>2970678
>What was life like in communist shitholes
you've already decided how it was like: people dying of hunger, shooting each other for bread, scientist experimenting of people to make them into radioactive bear hybrids

>>2972189
>Of course there were cafes, restaurants, cinemas, thetares
Not baiting but probably really stupid question here, so since there's no money, is everything essentially free? if so like for cafes/restos can you order everything or there's certain quota for menu?

>>2972199
> so since there's no money, is everything essentially free? if so like for cafes/restos can you order everything or there's certain quota for menu?
You come to the shop and there is a bike with a generator attached to it

If you want to buy butter you ride it for 20 minutes

something like that

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>>2970678
>Communist Romania, what I heard from every person over 40
>what was life like
Pretty good if you keep your head down and shut the fuck up, don't piss off the wrong people or don't say anything controversial. People had families and even if food was rationed it was enough to live. You paid an extra tax if you didn't have a child or weren't married so people spent a lot of time fucking. Hotels(like anything else) were owned by the state so sometimes the bosses in charge of them would run prostitution rings there, it was all very subtle and professional from what I've heard
>Did you get to decide what commieblock you wanted to live in
You could move, the government would get you a new job and a new apartment in another city but it would take a while.
>Personal property
People bought frills, baubles, trinkets, paintings, books with their extra cash. If you were well off you probably had a car, a TV and a radio. All the channels were propaganda though. Inheritance was tricky, the state decided how much you get and how much they take away, and that usually meant you don't get shit.
>We're there shops?
Yes and most of em had rations imposed, also they were owned by state and ran by appointed people
> How did the average person get food?
They would buy it legally or through the black market. It was against the law to hunt or fish without permits but a lot of people did exactly that because commies don't spend manpower on safeguarding forests and rivers.
Pic related, a grocery store, I can talk about more shit if anyone's interested.

>>2970678
I'll give you my slide of the DDR

>What was life like in communist shitholes during the Cold War

Comfy, the small town I grew up in was more like a communal village from a fairytale, everybody got along except for one guy we called Hitler Jr who was universally hated and suspected of being a Nazi

>How much personal property did you own?

We had a house with nice furniture, but were considered well off because my grandfather joined the party and I had relatives in the NVA.
There was one car in my village, which belonged to a senior party official, but he was pretty cool with driving people if they needed to get somewhere important.

>We're there shops

Yes. Even toy shops and other bourgeois shit

>How did the average person get food?

From the store, we had farms but they were closely watched to make sure nobody was bogarting all the food.

>>2972201
Lel.

unless you were enemy of the state and couldnt stfu you were having a good life, not luxurious but a good and stable one

>>2972199
>There's no money
But there was money. People were paid for their work.

>>2972205
Grocery stores were fucken empty in the mid-late 80s though. As far as I understand commie life was pretty good in the 70's in Romania and it got shit real quick in the 80's.

>>2972472
Yeah, the president got paranoid and martial law was eventually imposed to keep the people obedient. Curfews after dark, checkpoints at every bridge and city entrance, harsher punishments, smaller rations and if you sat in a group of 3 in public view the three of you would get arrested.

It's still debated today if it was Ceausescu's fault or some other officials(lots of people blame his cunt wife). That eventually led to the Romanian Revolution as even the army stopped following orders.

>>2970678
Yugoslavia
>life is comfortable compared to the rest of the socialist countries, every man goes through conscription, everyone is guaranteed social benefits, an aparment and a job
Basically everyone who lived through it also has stories from abroad. There were a lot of workers from Yugoslavia elsewhere in Europe and Yugoslavia was known for its position among the non-aligned, so if you had any trouble abroad, speaking Serbo-Croatian or Slovene or saying where you're from could help you
>on the other hand, there is a lot of political repression (especially in the early years and into the 70s), you can join your national chapter of the Party if you want more benefits, otherwise you just live with your head down; the secret service has its people everywhere, there's strong censorship; situation improves in the 80s (at least in the more liberal republics)
Yugoslav citizens were quite privileged in the sense that they could travel both to the West and the East and in the 80s, the political situation was starting to liberalise quite a lot.
>get whatever apartment you want, build your own house or get social housing if you're not able to buy your own
>can have your own small business and own some land of your own, you can buy a car but unless you buy it from someone else you have to wait a few months because there's such a queue; basically receive the car as it rolls out of the factors so there's not much choice
>shops exist but choice is very limited compared to the West and towards the end, prices and queues increased; people go to Austria and Italy and smuggle in clothes, food and luxuries and it's basically part of the culture for the border control to nod their head and let through cars with people wearing several layers of jeans on
>buy food, grow some of you own