How was life here?

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full of memes

>>68353295
couldve been worse

>>68353295
better than now

why was greece not into commie?

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Free from bourgeois exploitation

Also >>68353348

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>>68353464
They're catching up

>>68353295
never knew that Latvia and Estonia had the same flag tbн

>>68353539
SYRIZA are fucking traitors

>>68353464
They actually had a civil war over communism

>>68353295
shit at first then less shit later
it's also a shame that they went against religion

>>68353295
zero crime, no unemployment, top quality grocery products(everything was bio). quality education and lot of suppert for young families

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oh1xY72LFI

>>68353600
t. Ikibeyshit

>>68353592
I think they are little diffrent
look at the shape of the waves

>>68353643
I am Greek

>>68353667
Hm, now that I look at them closer, yeah, you're right

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>>68353691
nie udawaj greka

>>68353348
>>68353393
>>68353619
This is not very revealing. How was it in terms of quality of life, overall well-being, happiness, how did things in economy work different, etc?
>>68353464
Iirc they were occupied by the lads, not the Soviets.

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>>68353592
>>68353667

>>68353295
It was fine as long as you

1. Kept your mouth shut.
2. Didn't care how much money you make
3. Didn't feel need to have your own car
4. Weren't disliked by neighbors
5. Didn't care what sort of job you have
6. Didn't mind that people who are more socially skilled than you have more of everything because of contacts
7. Were good at stealing shit from your work, or ascetic enough to deal without

Otherwise you suffered from frustration and depression at least, threats and imprisoment or even torture and brainwashing and ultimately death.

>>68353767
Latvian looks based desu

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http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/classroom/longhist6.html

>>68353913
>when Poland needs commie powers to go into space

>>68353948

>Why soviet union needs to pull an ukrainian engineer out of gulag to be able to even enter the pissing contest with the west

>>68353435
>>68353812
>same flag
This is conflicting.
Also I heard the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia is growing a lot.

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http://culture.pl/en/article/the-communist-regime-in-poland-in-10-astonishing-pictures
http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/viewtopic.php?t=38923
>>68353948
in soviet russia poland can into space

>>68353992
>ukrainian
>>>/x/

>>68353628
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn14O6urNJ0

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>>68354013
and also this
http://culture.pl/en/article/10-surprising-eating-habits-from-the-communist-regime-era

>>68353812
>tfw my dad owned during commie times
>3 cars
>100k Csk a month
>2 houses
>casino
>3 restaurants
just honestly working in late 80's and early 90's

>>68354006
There's no conflict. If you're a loser with no skills, no ambition and no opinion, communist authoritarianism is better for you.

>Guaranteed job
>Guaranteed roof over your head, even if it's in a commieblock with one toilet per floor

>communist party is growing a lot
Yes and no. It attacked 15% in the past when a particularly meaty corruption scandal was fresh in media but now it's below 10% (which is still 10pp too much).

>>68354115
>>casino
disgusting

>>68354115
Sure thing buddy.

>>68353765
there were no / few western products and you had a smaller selection of goods
getting a job was afaik easier and you could have a stable future easier than now
economy was severely fucked and the state regulated pretty much everything
wellbeing was meh
people regularly outed others for jealousy / spite

>>68354280
well "owned"
you couldnt really own it, "long time lending" would be much more appropriate
the houses were on his name though and one restaurant
>>68354247
it wasnt really a casino, its just how its called, it was just super fancy restaurant,
the kind that has been built in 16th century and has been there ever under the same name ever since.

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>>68353295
>waiting for 6 hours in line to buy some toilet paper, bread, and "meat"
>the meaty pulp they're selling you is like 50% flour and gelatine
>people drown their sorrows in cheap vodka, alcoholism and depression everywhere
>fuck decadent architecture, let's shit up the landscape with glorious gommieblocks
>all the media are owned by the party
>if you dare to criticize the current system and/or our Greatest Allies from the East friendly militiamen will be happy to point out flaws in your way of thinking by beating the shit out of you
>Coca-Cola is filthy western poison made from potato beetles (seriously), similar bullshit story goes for everything that's available there and not available here
Everyone knows about how gommunism damaged our economies, but imo the damage it dealt to our mentalities and culture was far worse.

>>68354302
also I think I heard about people who were held at gunpoint for having american relatives visit(?) or something

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>>68353295
Even a hard life is bearable when you do not know a better one exists.

Khrushchev and Kennedy argue over which of these countries there is greater freedom of speech.
- In the USA Us anyone can criticize America - said Kennedy
- Oh, here in USSR we also have a freedom of speech - anyone can criticize America - happily said Khrushchev

>>68353295

Pretty shitty tbqhwy, lad. I did enjoy the social cohesion of it as a kid though, there was always shit to do and stuff being organized. Of course, I was 9 when the wall came down, so I never had to live the oppressive part of it once you got old enough to care about shit like freedom.

Dad hated that shit with a passion though, as soon as the border was open we fucked right off, hence current flag.

t. GDR fag

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Cars were uglier and fewer, for certain.

What is this: it's glowing and doesn't fit into a butthole?

A Soviet device for glowing inside a butthole.

>>68354450
They are not wrong about Coca-Cola though. That shit can be used for cleaning the toilet.

>>68353295
It was death.

>>68355926
Gastric acid is much stronger that citric acid or whatever they use and you're still fine.
(Nah, i don't drink it too)

>>68355926
So can baking soda. Or even vinegar.

In fact, vinegar is probably one of the most agressive cleaning products because of its acidity, but you won't see vegan hipsters talking shit about it...

>>68353628
>zero crime
meme

>no unemployment
Because there were literally made up jobs just to keep employment high. Also no need for technological inovation as there was still enough demand for low-skilled jobs. Eveyrone got basically the same shit wage,

>top quality grocery products
mega meme

>everything was bio
literally what? agriculture was full fo chemistry

>quality education
that's why our unis always end up in top rankings...oh, wait

>lot of support for young families
the only truth

>>68353295
well first of all the eastern bloc wasn't as homogenous as some westerners might think. The quality of life differed a lot in these countries.

>>68353295
Good.

>>68356088
here in my oblast if you didn't have a job and they caught you they sent you to a prison/brick factory to make bricks

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>>68355926
I mean it literally. Gommie newspapers in Poland claimed that, according to their """reliable sources""", Coca-Cola is actually made from potato beetles, and they were serious about that. That's how absurd their propaganda was.

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>>68353295
we used to be the cool liberal gommies, open to the west.

a lot of people are nostalgic now, except in slovenia and in part croatia, because our economies still havent recovered from the war and or shitty nineties. serbia, bosnia, macedonia, montenegro are yet to recover to 1989 levels.

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>>68356397
>except in slovenia and in part croatia,

There's a bunch of yugonostalgics here as well.

And they're starting to blend with the neo-hipster-gommies.

>>68353295
same as today
shit.

>>68354450

At least you had toilet paper and meat. In RSFSR these things were considered luxury, only high-ranked officials were able to afford them.

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>>68353295
Go play Everlasting Summer or something and find out yourself.

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>>68356616
why would you miss yugoslavia
you have both based slavoj the ideology slayer *snff* and empress melania

>slovenes are the second most powerful race on the planet, after the scotch-germans

>>68356880
what about the filipinos?

>>68353295

Much better than now. USSR was the best thing happened to Russia, especially the period of 1929-1954.

>>68356942
close third
duterte is working on it tho

>>68357004
why are they arresting that altar server?

>>68357004
>cultural marxism
There's that meme again.....
What does multiculturalism have to do with the economic principles of Marxism?

Pretty comfy.

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>>68356880
the perpetual butthurt syndrome

People are always bitching about shit. Even when a young group of IT enterpreneurs gets foreign funding to create a good project that simultaneously exposes the bad workings of the parliament in an effort to force the parliamentarians to improve, people will bitch about it.
So naturally, because the present isnt' literal nirvana on earth and they have happy memories of their childhoods back in the days, they'll yearn for yugoslavia.

>>68357004
One of the lefties to the right has a commie star on his T-shirt. What kind of schizo bait is this?

>>68355541
>666

>>68353295
Shit was to fucking good to believe, Georgians actually loved each other and cared for each other.
There was nothing like "unemplyoment" or "crime". Look at my great Homeland today, it's a total shithole and only got better in last time.
Just look at my Flag, i had to leave the country because i actually loved the Georgian SSR with passion, i loved everything of it, even was a gommie. Today we Georgians are spread out everywhere, we are no longer a people united i guess..... even tho Georgia is pretty fine tbqh

>>68353295
Bearable but shit.

On one hand, you didn't have to care about almost anything. On the other, everything was atleast two levels below the Western standards and some things were unheard of entirely.

Don't listen to commie apologists and nostalgics. The whole system was untenable. They might've been better off but that's because we were literally eating through our future.

>>68357004
I think one of those pics is Indonesian

>>68357500
>everything was atleast two levels below the Western standards
What changed?

>>68357487
Why did you leave the United States? People in Georgia seems pretty friendly to me.

>>68357715
We are just one level below or about the same now. Also, we can leave the country.

>>68357796
Kys

>>68357715
its one level now

in commie times platic bag from some western shop was luxury and people were wearing them with pride for years

>>68357912
Fuck you, Cletus

>>68357907
>Also, we can leave the country.

Reminds me of a story from back in the days

>late 1940s, early 1950s, still hardcore gommunism in yugo
>grandfather lives near the border, is chopping some logs just about 5km away from it
>2 people come past, start asking about where the border with austria is, where this and that place is and so on
>they continue on the road towards the border
>30min later a bunch of army guy drives past
>"did you just see 2 people walking by, how long ago, etc."
>grandfather tells them, they go on
>some time later, they drive back, two bodies in the truck

The sad and ironic part of it is that they were geodesic surveyors, but the central "command" or whatever failed to notify the border office that they were gonna be doing some surveying.

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>>68357500
This, the only people who miss gommie times are the ones who never had to live under communist or had power during that time. An average person will look back with fear at those times
Every time there is family gathering and my grandma shows me her old pictures she always says the one thing
>"you're luck you were born after 1990, you didn't live during communism, you were just trying to survive those 70+ years of your life hoping that maybe your children will have a life you were deprived of"
>inb4 well my grandma said it was okay!
If you're poor no system will matter to you, it was the same then. People who miss communism are the ones who like i said had power or were poor and gommies gave them bus to school and a pair of shitty shoes.

>>68353295
shit

>>68357074
not a thing.

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>>68355872
kek

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>>68353295
if you use the republics flags in the USSR you may as well use them in Yugoslavia as well

>>68353765
>How was it in terms of quality of life,
Shit
>overall well-being,
Low
>happiness,
People were living their lives those times too so they had their private ups and downs but the regime was depressing in general. People knew the things are very wrong in the country.
>how did things in economy work different, etc?
Everyone was equally miserable and made 10$ a month. There was no point in working hard or studying.

>>68360094
That is truly sad.
I have a doubt: after the WWII and the Warsaw pact who was your """""president"""" or the most important person/the one who decided/the general secretary or whatever you want to call it A.K.A. The Dictator?
Was it Stalin? Or did you have your own shitty communist government?
By the way, have you read 1984 from George Orwell? If so, could you tell me please if life in communism was like the book one?
I have always had that curiosity over communism.

>>68353992
>ukrainian
not real

>>68353295

Much better than now. Socialism was really great, that's truly the Golden Age of Russia.

>>68360094
>made 10$ a month

Back then one soviet ruble was equal to 2 dollars.

>>68360376
1945-1948 was a tricky period. There was an official pre-war government in London and Stalin-installed puppets in Poland. Some people still had hopes that Poland could be a democratic country. But after the falsified elections in 1948 the commies gained full power.

This guy was our first dictator after WW2:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boles%C5%82aw_Bierut
>Bolesław Bierut was a Polish Communist leader, NKVD agent and a hard-line Stalinist

>By the way, have you read 1984 from George Orwell? If so, could you tell me please if life in communism was like the book one?
I did. Very much so. The propaganda's power and pitting people against eachother was perfectly how it was in commie states.

>>68360559
>Back then one soviet ruble was equal to 2 dollars.
Perhaps because it was very hard to get rubles out of the URSS?

>>68360618
*Sorry the elections were actually in 1947
And basically the thing that meant installing communist puppets in Poland was this referendum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_people%27s_referendum,_1946
Which was obviously falsified too

>>68360644
Exchanging currencies was illegal

>>68360618
>This guy was our first dictator after WW2:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boles%C5%82aw_Bierut
Besides being a hard-line Stalinist, did he make his own decisions or was he a Stalin puppet?

>I did. Very much so. The propaganda's power and pitting people against eachother was perfectly how it was in commie states
I was thinking more about those weird blocks were plumbing doesn't work, the food is shitty everywhere and you only had one WC for the whole living block. Was it so or is this an Orwell's exaggeration?
Also, did you have those weird entertainment activities that made you waste the whole day or is this just book fiction?
BTW, thanks for that info, I reallyappreciate that.

>>68360890
>Besides being a hard-line Stalinist, did he make his own decisions or was he a Stalin puppet?
He was a 100% puppet. All our dictators (called 1st secretaries) obviously had to do anything the USSR wanted.

>those weird blocks were plumbing doesn't work, the food is shitty everywhere and you only had one WC for the whole living block.
Yup that's how it was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHaWKUlor08

>Also, did you have those weird entertainment activities that made you waste the whole day or is this just book fiction?
Well people were forced to do parades praising communism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlkCs7ou8vA

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fffffffffffffabulouse

senior

absolutely fffffffabulouse

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>>68353295
Oo oo 'member the Cold War? Yeah it was fentastic!!!

>>68353295
Here we go.

>people idealized Hoxha
>very poor
>used to produce 16 movies per year which are pretty good even nowadays actually
>some infrastructure changes were made and people were given houses and jobs for free
>we weren't completely isolated, some tourists were allowed to enter but not vice versa
>extreme totalitarianism
>almost no crime because everyone feared the regime
>friends with URSS, second gen people nowadays know some Russian
>friends with the Chinese for a while, they were said to like our folk music
>broke up with both
>all alone
>Hoxha dies
>democracy yay
>if you talk bad about Hoxha to elders, they will keep you there for 3 hours explaining how good comrade Hoxha was

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if you want to know how life was

you should look at USA

what eastern yurope went through yesterday, north america is now about to go through

>>68361294
Hoxha was a type of retard not even the Soviets would've accepted
Pissed off the Soviets to support China making his country a solitary little speck surrounded by ruskie satellites, then destroyed the economy to build muh bunkers, then pissed off the Chinese
Truly awe-inspiring

>>68353295
e p i c

Anybody who thinks the ussr was better is a retard. Ex-ussr countries are now objectively better off.

http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/shleifer/files/normal_countries_draft_sept_12_annotated.pdf

most people love Yugo-time, tito was genuinely loved and the guy knew how to run a country, but the economy wasn't very stable, dependent on cold war loans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQzqV-6-4do

>>68361620
what he do to piss off chinks?

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>>68353295
Lithuanian here, 38 years old.

I don't remember much, I just remember Russian being spoken on the Radio and houses being shit. i was a kid though.

>>68361819
another very wishful modern yugonostalgia vid :DD
(has eng subtitles)
https://youtu.be/V_G5rnIlyhM?t=37
tho thats what most people think would have happened if yugo didnt break up kek

>>68353295
Why didn't the USSR annex their satellite states? Would have been one hell of a union desu

>>68354450
zhrukov drank coca cola with the without colouring out so the state wouldnt push his shit back in

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Who had the best (or least shit) leader?
>not pictured: Hoxha and Tito

>>68362139
why would they need to do that, irl politics arent about mappainting

>>68362183
out of warsaw pact? idk
out of eastern bloc is it even a question? tito ofc

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>>68362139
More international power, I guess ~9 countries is a better deal than one. Albania and Yugoslavia weren't satellites though.

>>68361495
Yes. That's why your country is doing so good today.

>>68359442
Are Macedonian really Slavs?

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>>68362183

Jaruzelski.

Communism lacked the market drive that makes capitalism so good.
Things were made so people could have them rather than being made so people will buy them.
This was both bad and good, mostly bad.

>>68362457
its a shame no one blew that fucker's brains out

>>68362457
>not Honecker
wrong answer

>>68362451
yeah, language wise
us and bosnia and montenegro and serbia to a lesser degree are shitty now a days, so most people even younger generation think it'd be chill if tito rose from the grave and remade Yugo kek, as for me, i used to be yugonostalgic but then i realized its hopeless and this region is filled with so much bad blood and hatred that any union is simply a waste of time, homogenous smaller countries are the only way

>>68361244
What the fuck?
Why the hell are the spoons chained to each other and plates are screwed?
Also, is this a real footage or is it a part of a movie?
BTW, why did the bully say to the other guy or what happened there?

According to most of people of my country, it was a cauldron of endless pain and suffering created by the Devil himself, but in reality, it wasn't even that bad.

>>68362590
It's a movie but things like that were commonplace.
Spoons are chained and plates are screwed so that no one will steal them.
He asked for his number, then said he has an earlier number but was at the loo and told the short guy to fuck off. It was a law of the jungle back then. Boorishness and crudeness was praised.

>>68362441
>Greece
>on top

Top kek, maybe?

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>>68362666

satan recalls with pleasure

>>68362590
now that's proper reaction for communism

>>68362788
think he means on top of the balkans
hes right in that regard at least kek
so far, janezi will overtake em really soon if they consider them balkans

>>68362590
during the soviet period all our movie makers were marxist kike cocksuckers doing everything they can to spit and mock polish culture

the movies made from that period are cancer and kike garbage

>>68362666
satanic trips confirm that Yugoslavia was a hellhole

>>68362782
>It was a law of the jungle back then.
I thought there was no crime. Or was that a normal thing for the communist police or NKVD or something?

>>68362511
Yes but it had social security and economic equality which capitalism lacks.

>>68362888
So why does that movie make me feel sad? I mean, I don't think commies wanted to show the world that kind of situations
Or was it a post-communism movie?

>>68362968
the system western european countries and nordic ones have has both of those things
you have to find balance between marxist values like welfare and social systems and free market capitalism
tho that shit is impossible in balkans no matter what system you have, it'll always be abused to hell, if people dont HAVE to work, they won't.

>>68362987
it was more of a show off of how they've successfully degraded us


nothing more

>>68362930
>I thought there was no crime.
Pretty sure it was like 10 times bigger than now or even more.

>Or was that a normal thing for the communist police or NKVD or something?
The police and SB (Polish NKVD) were the first to commit crimes because they were untouchable.

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>>68362666
>it wasn't even that bad.
>666
can't make this up

>>68362574
Alexander was a slav?

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>>68354115
>casino
>honestly working
Yeah fuck off

>>68360559
>Socialism was really great

How can u live with such denial ?! Your country and people had way more potential.

>>68362532

I don't understand, you'd prefer to get an actual Soviet invasion in 1981 instead of the martial law?

Very bad. The only thing worse than the economic situation was the complete lack of information and political oppression.

Extremely shitty.


t. i am greek

>>68363085
nah
most people who think alexander is our direct descendant think were the result of ancient macedons n shit mixing with the slavs in 6th century and boom modern macedonia
i dont give a fuck about alex rly, just think were macedonian slavs, average people dont deserve to suffer from the greek blocks and shit just because they arent happy with our name its fucked up, most people are very good people

>>68363085
He was a Pole actually.
t. history expert

>>68363043
What other strange/awful situations did you have to face back then? I mean, besides the things everybody knows (NKVD abusses and those things). Like the example of the chained spoons.
BTW, why would someone steal a spoon/plate or something if nobody could buy it? Did you have money (cash, bills) back then? Or did you use "tickets" to get food like Cubans? What could you buy (if you could)? Where could you buy thing (if you could)?

>>68362574
That's not really true. I know that at least Serbia's economy has grown somewhat. Things have been steadily looking better from what I can tell since the early 2000's. More and more of the people that I know have gotten a job, repaired their home or have even bought a computer with an internet connection. Big structures like the new bridges over the Sava and the Danube have been build and the country seems to be in better shape overall since the war.

But it's not like the living standards were all that high in the 80's and 90's to begin with. Everything had been stagnating for a while by then. Still the war and the NATO bombardments did make things considerably worse.

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>>68363149

kacap

>>68363232
>repaired their home or have even bought a computer with an internet connection. Big structures like the new bridges over the Sava and the Danube have been build and the country seems to be in better shape overall since the war.
wow big deal m8, yeah its improved since the war ofc but its still shit, way more shit compared to the rest of europe
people have this idea (true or not) that in yugo in titos time it was utopia, we wuz among the greatest powers in europe and we took paid vacations sponsored by our workplace in picnics where every one was happy and we had no crime!! and unlike other socialist states we didnt supress religion that much, we had western products, people traveled abroad, tourists came, all that
so yugonostalgia is still very alive, not that theres any political movement or something like that pushing for it

>>68363043
What did you know about the Western society? Did you think it was better or did everybody think it was nothing compared to the "great communist society"?

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>>68363246

I don't understand, you'd prefer to get katyn'd again?

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>>68363383
hey fuckface kacapie

After my family immigrated to the USA we helped donate military weapons and money to the Taliban

How does it feel to know I may have been responsible for the death of fuckton of kacap scum red shit garbage?


Allahu Akbar you pink cocksucker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCodN436Vp4

>>68363219
>What other strange/awful situations did you have to face back then?
Well for example my parents were standing in a queue for a week to buy a new sofa.
>BTW, why would someone steal a spoon/plate or something if nobody could buy it?
I don't understand.
>Did you have money (cash, bills) back then? Or did you use "tickets" to get food like Cubans?
We had both. You could buy alcohol, cigarettes, bread, etc. with money. But to buy some stuff (like meat, fruit, etc.) you needed money and tickets.
>What could you buy (if you could)?
The only thing that was always available was vinegar.
>Where could you buy thing (if you could)?
There were normal shops and special shops that accepted only dollars (which were also illegal to have) with better stuff.

>>68363363
In Poland it was obvious that Western society was better because we had (little but still) information coming from outside world.
In USSR most people were brainwashed and had no news from outside world so they loved communism.

>>68363191
oh, it is the greek macedonia an all the FYROM conflict....i get it...

>>68363538
what?

>>68363526
support of taliban bit the US in the ass in the form of 9/11 and the neverending war on terror theyve gotten themselves into after it

>>68363588
>support of taliban bit the US in the ass in the form of 9/11


how? oh ur one of those stupid commie fucks who think Osama Bin Laden was behind the WTC?

>>68363528
>Well for example my parents were standing in a queue for a week to buy a new sofa.
Why? Because of the lack of manufacturing?
How was education? Did you have to learn Russian?
>There were normal shops and special shops that accepted only dollars (which were also illegal to have) with better stuff.
Like a black market? Were those shops illegal?
What did those shops sell? Hersheys, Coca-cola, M&M'S?

>>68363219
>>68363363

Hey colombian bro, do you realize that we had to suffer the same amount under american influence during cold war?

>>68363689
not a commie but u think bush singlehandedly orchestrated it or something right?

>>68363732
>Why? Because of the lack of manufacturing?
Yes
>How was education? Did you have to learn Russian?
Very theoretical. Yes you had to learn Russian.
>Like a black market? Were those shops illegal?
They were legal but having dollars was illegal. Quite ironic.
>What did those shops sell? Hersheys, Coca-cola, M&M'S?
Locally produced things but they were better supplied

>>68361979
They were afraid of China warming up to the west, we weren't that pro-American back then.

There was no toilet paper.

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>>68363732
Not him, but those dollar shops were called Pewex, and were legal. You could buy american jeans and clothes there. Also some electronics, toys, cosmetics and probably more.
Stuff from there was more luxurious and higher quality, generally.

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>>68363782
Really? I didn't know that.
Why?
>>68363869
>>68364008
Were you allowed to travel among the URSS countries? How was your relation with RDA?

>>68364525
I can't speak from experience, but from what I remember being told by my parents, you could have gotten a passport valid for a specific amount of time to travel to other soviet countries. At least I'm sure Bulgaria was a relatively popular vacation destination.
When you got back from your trip you had to give the passport back to the officials.

>>68364525
>Really? I didn't know that. Why?

CIA orchestrated Coup d'etat in everysingle country in LatinAmerica, brainwash america propaganda, no country were allowed to gain any form of economical independence form US...

See what they did to Allende in 1973...

>>68353295
Aw shit. How did we lose our bitches?

>>68365118
gorbachov kek

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>>68365118
because youre naturally born losers

>>68353295
Shit.

>>68364525
>Were you allowed to travel among the URSS countries?
Yes but you had to get a passport first which was hard. Also it was very expensive.
>How was your relation with RDA?
What's RDA?

>>68365712
>What's RDA?
Spanish name for the DDR?

>>68365712
NRD

>>68364525
During travel within the prison zone there were always 3 KGB men watching what you do if you were a proper USSR citizen, like we fucking were.

>>68365784
>>68365833
Oh. I don't know much about the DDR-PRL relations.

>>68362590
>spoons chained to each other and plates are screwed?
That was a parody, but it wasn't that far from how it actually was.
>>68362888
>>68363039
Dunno if troll or an actual retard
>>68362987
The movie actually mocked the commie system. Non-commie directors of these times weren't allowed to openly criticize the party because of the censorship, so they would often try to sneak shit past the radar with absurd humour and symbolism. For example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH1BCq1cl8M
(skip the bit with grandpa speaking from 01:00 to 02:00, the rest of the scene doesn't involve any talking)

>>68365833
>NRD
Poles call them Niemcy
Spaniards call them Alamania

Hence why it's RDA

>>68357487
Dude, unemployment was still there, it was just covered by the unhealthy social securities which fucked the entire economy and led to the downfall of the system, besides all the secret service crap what we were pulling.

Today it's finally going up again and it's the hard work of low labour. If you are not an East German and just a one of these marxist kiddos, just shut your mouth!

>>68353295
Grey, it was literally north korean tier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHCP3dXRjjk

>>68366453
have u watched goodbye lenin? comfy af, also lives of others
also at least theres no migrants in DDR now a days eh? they all go to the wealthy and less xenophobic south

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People wished for Nazis to come back

go figure

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>>68366453
I wish I could say that this was the first time I've watched this video
But it isn't

>>68366519
>have u watched goodbye lenin? comfy af, also lives of others
I was living there, I'm an old fag. There were lots of vietnamese migrants and from other communist countries. Lots of people got monitored by the communist secret service. And the economy was a disaster to the point that it crippled it's own income, it's exports and finally ko'ed itself.

>>68366920
not back then, i mean now a days
xenophobia and conservativism stayed there, now a days theres no turks, migrants or anything like that in DDR (other than berlin itself) right? compared to munchen its pure af

>>68363526
>USA we helped donate military weapons and money to the Taliban
Taliban were only one part of the mujahedeen, the Northern Alliance was another group.

>>68366590
Slovak, pls

>>68366519
>also at least theres no migrants in DDR now a days eh?
So those black people in the video are native Germans?

>>68367293
African commie leaders
It's a military parade celebrating the 50th anniversary of the DDR

>>68366997
That's true. But the people are so xenophobic, because they rarely trust anybody, due to the past. There is still relatively high unemployment (~15%) and the people here wouldn't share the few jobs with some foreigners.

>>68367293
Those black people in the video are some generals from some communist African country, because they were invited for the parade. You can see Palestina or China too.

>>68361587
Based