My city was full of mafia in 90s, our country was post-communistic.

>having memories from when you were 1 years old

>>78063633
Not everyone is a baby here
t. 30 year old

>>78063467
nonce twat

>>78063467
Intifiada and pogs

poor, poor, absolutely poor

if you think communism makes you poor, you havent experienced wild uncontrolled capitalism

>>78063702
You never had uncontrolled capitalism.

>>78063467
better than now, but that's not hard to achieve

overall much better than today
>growing economy
>existing nightlife
>more secular
>freedom of travel to Israel
>less crowded
>peaceful relations between normal people Israelis and Palis

If only Arafat didn't fuck us with his armed intifada.

>>78063467
>What was your country like in the 90s?
pure consumerism, no more ideologie (end of history) and mixing-race propanganda to the max.

>What are your memories of that period?
im born in 89 so it was a great tiem for me, always hanging out with friend, playing soccer, having adventure, it was before internet etc. We use to go to friend who had console to play street fighter, then the ps1 come out...great time, it was more chill than now

>>78063467
Really fun times. We were pretty poor, the roads weren't even paved, but people were kinder, always helping each other and more humble back then. These days it's China-tier soulless individualism and the youth dresses like gangsters.

>>78063912
>let me tell you about country

go pick my oranges pedro

>>78064060
My dad who serve the idf for 20 during the 70s 80s and 90s, tell me and my brother how they used to freely visit palestine and gaza as soldiers, have arab hummus and chill with palestinians
I never really got the chance to live that reality, I was still a kid at the 90s, but damn I hope we can go back to that at some point

>>78064334
20 years*
told me and my brothers*

sorry, my arab genetics sometimes kick in

>>78064334
>>78064385
what changed

>>78063467
I was a teenager in the 90s.
I was trying to break into being a comic artist. Went to san diego comic con 95 and 96, Rob Liefeld told me I looked like one of his friends. Everything was cool, cross colors were in, people wearing their clithes backwards like Kris-Kross... In Living Color was hot on tv, Jim Carey was making his bones on that show.

I remember when Cobain merc'd himself and how all the white teens went completely apeshit, i temembdtbhearing Nirvana songs on the radio but was more into Silverchair (Frogstomp was godlike, and made entirely hy 17 year olds!) and Pearl Jam ( I told my friends when i fie I want them to play the intro of Yellow Ledbetter in remembrance of me).
Green Day's "Dookie" album and Gin Blossoms were the soundtrack to my sophomore summer. I was learning to play guitar listening to Bish's 16 Stone and Better Than Ezra's "Teenager"(still one of he best songs ever written)

Image comics came out amd all Marvels Heavy Hitters jumped ship, Lee, Liefeld, Silvestri, Texiera... I had like 400 comics. T

Those wete blessed good times.

The euphoria from the fall of the wall and the reunification slowly wore off and people realized that pulling a post-communist borderline failed state up on par of Western standards wasn't as easy as initially anticipated. Lots of broken promises and losers of the process.

Many state-owned companies went bust because they couldn't compete in a market environment or were sold for peanuts to competitors who closed them down.

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We were exclusively eating boiled potatos with butter. I distinctly remember that the potato was homegrown but the butter for some reason was always brought by my grandma, a couple of sticks at once. On celebrations I usually was presented with a bag of crisps and a can of fizzy pop.
My father got lucky with a job. In the times of total unemployment he got the job as a driver for some big shot in the city hall. The salary was not much but his employers had banquets almost every day from which my father left with pockets full of the food he sneaked for me and mum, like sliced sausage and cheese wrapped in a napkin. If it wasn't for that we wouldn't have meat for months.
Sometimes, when it got particularly bad, we lived off plain pasta. I mean just pasta, water and salt for weeks.
I remember how in 1998 my brother brought a three days old Big Mac from Moscow. It was all cold, slick and squashed up. We cut it into 6 pieces so everybody could have a taste of what american food is like. I used to brag about it in front of my schoolmates.

>>78064334
yeah, it was normal for Israelis or even soldiers to be in the middle of the city during day light, even haredis in the middle of Nablus.And vice versa, I used to go with my parents sometimes to do grocery shopping inside a settlement. Great times, sad how things have become indeed :(

>>78064439
Like anon said, intifada escalated the situation, and then we started creating settlements, and thing just kept snowballing from there

>>78064571
Yeah, before the peace it was great!

>>78064439
Oslo accords imported PLO and its cronies in the mid nineties and by the end of 90s after they felt they had enough power they decided to use clashes in Jerusalem as a reason to fuck shit up and start a full blown armed conflict.

>>78064529
Sounds dire :\

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>>78064529
Dang.

>>78064645
not sure when it'll come back though ;_;

like this;

https://en.wikipedia org/wiki/Susurluk_scandal

>>78063467
Everything was much rougher, people weren't as sheltered or afraid of everything, there was less variety of foreign products, local television actually produced quality content, decent music on the radio, and Mizrahim knew their fucking place.

>>78064768
Never? This country is extremely overpopulated so there's far more to win and lose now than before.

>>78063467
Lolis are not allowed.

>>78064906
Yeah, and here people have been suffering from disorientation due to politics for over a decade now, there's a bent up anger over the current situation and lack of future safety and the battered economy is adding fuel to this. The way I see it if things didn't improve in the next couple of years shit about to go down again, and if Abbas decided to die by then his successor would probably either suppress the people or instigate hatred towards Israel and both cases it won't be good.

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Local telly was gud
Houses were affordable but unemployment was a problem
We all dressed like dorks and the government took are guns after some nutter shot up Port Arthur

Despite post-soviet crisis, almost all my memories about 90s are comfy and connected with videogames, universams (something like supermarkets or malls), kindergarten, etc. Our family had quite big farm in the village (but we lived in Kiev), so I can't say that I starved (like other anons from other post-soviet countries).

>>78064529
What part of Russia?

>>78064060
In which city do you live in?
Have you ever visitid Israel? If so, what places did you like?

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>>78064891
Know your place, ASH.

>>78065359
Nablus
I always liked the region leading to Haifa, and Tel Aviv nice areas are good too.

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>>78065328

>>78065581
have couple of friends from nablus, pretty chill alcoholic guys.

>>78064891
Israeli TV in the 90s was fucking great, even Arab production content on it. Man, the memories :(

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>>78064529

>>78065638
>pretty chill alcoholic guys.
sounds about right

>>78065640
https://youtu.be/MTO95118Qv4
https://youtu.be/ME3sKUT5mLk

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>>78065581
I lived in the sharon coastal plain till I moved to the central around tlv not a long ago. Always used to look east to the mountains, and wondered what it's like there.

When I was a little boy We had to get up at 5 or 6 in the morning to stand in the queue for fresh bread. We stood there in the queue for three hours. I was ecstatically happy when we bought a loaf of bread and finally got out of that horrible noisy queue. I was honoured with the opportunity to carry the loaf home. It was warm and smelled delicious. When we got home and sliced it we understood that the bread was made a few days ago and was simply reheated a few times. That day I lost the hope in people.
On my birthday mum used to make potato mash with cutlets garnished with fresh cucumbers. I got up late at night hungry and went to the kitchen to get a leftover cutlet and found my father sitting there eating rusks with water. Only then I realised I have never seen my father eat something together with us because he was saving all the good stuff like meat and potatos for me while secretly chocking late at night on old dried out bread.
The hell with this, I'm won't cry over that again.

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>>78065781
basically this copy/pasted many times over with more or less vegetation. The horizon in this pic is probably where you used to live.

>>78063467
Russia
Country was going to a rough time but my family was well off and I remember my childhood as being extremely comfy, travelling, all the best new games and consoles, etc. Great times.

Holy shit those Russian feels
Us western kids don't know we're born

>>78063467
I was born in '96, but from what my mom tells me, it was a time of relaxation. Parents would let their kids play outside by themselves and with other kids. I never got to play outside in my neighborhoods growing up, the only time I ever did was when I lived in ruralside Oregon for 2 years. So instead I stayed inside playing computer games on sites like Gaia online, IMVU, and Tera online.

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>>78066049
Looks more claustrophobic than in Salfit/Ariel (pic)

You probably have a better weather up there, less humidity. Oh man, the humidity during summer time in coast.

Until 16 yo my biggest dream was to eat as many bananas as I possibly could, by we've only had money for two bananas per month at max. My grandma presented me with a Snickers bar once on my birthday. Mum sliced it in thin pieces and gave everyone a piece. I remember how by grandma was nibbling a piece with her toothless mouth and asking with a smile on her face "Do you like it?". I did.
At 17 me and my mother were selling homegrown vegetables on a local marketplace during the summer break so we could get some money to actually dress me up and buy all the other stuff for school. You have to sit under the blazing summer sun all day long and sprinkle water onto the vegetables so they would look fresh. A lot of my schoolmates were passing by but choosing not to notice me. A teacher of mine walked up to us once to say hi and buy a kilo of tomatoes. I remember the deep sadness in his eyes as he was looking at me.

>>78065745
platfus was so good
nothing current can even compare

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>>78066392
Yeah it is a vast series of tall hills and valleys, kind of annoying tbqf.

Yeah, weather is much better as you go higher. Right now is its pretty windy where I live and the wind is breezy and noice. Ramallah even is better when it comes to being cooler during the summer

>>78063467
It was a pretty cool time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QrME94J-WM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMxpH79xAk8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9OO_i5aCW0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdqbwV6MSwc

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>>78066655
here's one I took
I think it's carmel mountain near haifa

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>>78066760
Noice. My favorite part in wb would be the hills leading to Jerich in spring.

The most vivid memory of the 90s that I have. Snowy winter, -25, a square in front of a railstation. A marketplace near the railstation. Back in the day people used to sell everything and everywhere, dressed in those washed up coloured clothes. You know the kind. Well, russians know anyway. They could have a pig's head and a toy doll for sale next to each other. Most of the stuff they sold was easily recognisable, everybody in the USSR had the same chairs, couches, books, red roly-poly toys. I remember, near a rusted to the core street light were lying two stiffs in leather jackets. Just lying there in the snow, legs spread wide open, fists clenched. And people just walking by, buying books for the kids, getting a new t-shaped razor while those two guys just lying there in the broad day light. It's hard to express but everything felt surrealistic and down to the ground at the same time. Everything was surrealistic and everything was a torture. Horrible times.

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>>78064529
>>78065970
>>78066496
>>78067011
We Western shits don't know how good we have it

>>78063467
>>78063623
>>78063663
>>78063702
>>78064060
>>78064103
>>78064334


Wew old people

>>78067085
>30
>old
eh, well I guess I should order a coffin

My parents were rich back then. I'm a son of a 90's businessman. He used to buy cigarettes in villages fron 10 rubles and then sold them for 100 in the cities. Then he got to know some chinese guys and he began selling them literally trains filled with scraped metal. We were living like kings. I had a pager, a VCR, a Dendy (NES), an SNES that was brought by some distant relative straight from the US. Not just our family but the whole city was living pretty well, it was a small closed off nuclear plant city with 100k population. We had our own dairy factory, a bakery, a slaughterhouse. Life was pretty decent, especially when compared to the nearest big city. It was a hell on earth there.

>>78064571
My grandma used to go from Beersheba for shopping in Gaza lmao, it was easier for her as an arabic speaker I guess. It's so weird when I think about it, She lived to see it open and go there, and then closed and then bombed (and get her own city bombed from there)
I don't think it'll go back to what it was, because it's all about education and the new generation has more poision and religion in their minds. If it will happen, however, the WB has better chances than Gaza, This place is pretty damn lost now.

>>78067319
Funny to compare and contrast this post with the other Russian posts

>>78066049
>>78066392
Gotta be honest with everything going on, this banter is beautiful. Keep it up. Meetup when?
>>78065970
Making me feel grateful anon, tell me more.

I was living in Habarovsk at the time (600k population). It was a real shithole, there wasn't even a paved road to the west (to Moscow), just a single-car wide dirt trail. Went to school in 1993 and in 1995 got my first taste of what organised crime is. They appointed the watcher to our school and he started gathering money from the pupils. From elementary school pupils they took 500-1000 rubles (before denomination, cut three zeros + add 200% inflation for modern day equivalent), middle schoolers even more, rich kids paid up to 50000 a week.
Sporadically there was nothing to eat (1993-1997), father worked at a car service, drank every day and cheated on my mum. He got jailed for illegal weapon possession later on. There was a shop nearby that used to sell cheap out of date food. Mum ate there while I and my sister were getting fresh food from regular shops. At the age of 8 I realised what she was doing and told her that I will eat out of date food as well so my sister would get more fresh food.
I was mugged more than I can remember but because we were poor they couldn't steal much and I got beaten up for that. Usually they took the money fro the tram to school so I stopped riding the tram and started walking to the school. On a winter evening of 1997 I was walking home from school along the tram tracks when someone hit me on the head and stripped me off my winter hat and jacket. They left the school backpack though. I hobbled back home where my mum called an ambulance.
The crimes were an everyday reality and they were perceived as such. A guy I knew got shanked to death on a street in broad daylight. My friend's father was put into coma by some dude who hit him with a crowbar near his house. We weren't surprised by those things. It was just like "well, nothing new, that's how we wash our hands here".

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>>78067718

>>78063467
who this semen demon?
>inb4 boy

better than it is today, truly a period of fat cows

>>78068258
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XrtdI7qXy4

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>>78068224
Maria Babko

>>78068224
Child porn star Masha(Maria) Babko

>>78067718
Epic?

>>78067718
Living in a society where many crimes occur is in high tension?

The things I associate the 90s with:
- The place where heat supply pipes were coming out of the ground. All the junkies were coming there for a fix. They used to put a piece of cloth in a capsule from a kinder egg and then breathed in the stuff when they needed it. The vivid memories of teenagers standing near the steaming pipes, dressed in dirty holey clothes, all holding a hand with a kinder egg in front of their plain, serene faces.

- no gas for cooking and no electricity sometimes for months straight. We were jumping out of happiness when the electricity was back. The feeling is indescribable.

- Chavs (gopota) were everywhere. And everybody was afraid of them. Because they had no rules. They could beat a 7 year old to the pulp just cause.

- all the rooms in my apartment were filled with stuff for sale which was what my parents were doing back then. Cheese, sausages, juice, furniture, shoes.


On the bright side:
- Dendy (NES) and Sega (Mega Drive) consoles. We couldn't play them much because usually there was no electricty. A shop where you could exchange an old cartridge for a new one.

- Kick fucking ass TV programs (at least that's what I thought of them back then). MTV, "Wrestling Titans" on the TNT channel, porn late at night on the Ren-TV channel, cartoons like TMNT early in the morning (like really early, 5:00)

- Mortal Kombat. Mortal Kombat was THE SHIT back then. Everybody was into MK. It was a religion. Everybody had a favourite character. Everybody was eager to discuss MK movies, games, sticker books.

Okay you guys from /rus/ can stop raiding this thread now

>>78068600
>Child porn star
Kek, only in Russia.

>>78068517
>>78068600
fug

>>78063702
>wild uncontrolled capitalism
meh, that's what happened in russia in the 90's but i'd hate to call it "capitalism". it wasn't even an "ism". just chaos, total anarchy, corruption, criminals, and free for all.

>>78069149
Basically. Russia in the 90s was pretty much lawless and just "the strong take what they want from the weak".

there was less traffic in this city
and americans were still here but not as much and they were already living
music was more sane, people still listened to salsa and merengues instead of regayton
there was a lot of high crime areas left by the dictatorship

>>78068983
Fuck off they're the only one providing interesting and well written stories.

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>>78069480
has your dad ever recovered after losing his connections?

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>>78069638
lol. connections about what and with whom? dont tell me you got offended by that post lmao i literally said nothing offensive. dont get me started you fucking fagot

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>>78065970

>>78063467
like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNgb3q6XOmc

>>78069777
haha nah i wasn't. i just remember you from your previous posts :D wasn't your dad connected to the noriega govt?

>dont get me started you fucking fagot
kek you never stopped. see how triggered you are. oh well

These Russian posters are making me feel deeply sad, sounds like something out of some dystopian hive city. Damn but at least they all stuck together and were loved, the ones here anyway, and at least its better now.

>>78069933
treiggered? lol
i just call you a fucking fagot because i want to

>>78063467
Pretty decent during the first half, then things turned to shit starting with the war with Perú in 1995 and then when everything became a shitstorm with the 1999 crisis, a shitstorm that lasted up unitl 2006-2007, but something we haven't psychologically recovered since then.

>>78069962
There's a billion people still living just like that.

>>78070006
Africans are just animals who will never improve and indians cant even take the poo to the loo, so not massively concerned.

Things like HDTVs, texting, and Youtube hadn't been thought of yet, people used landline phones, watched movies on shit VHS tapes, and did business with snail mail, magazines, and catalogs. Computers were noisy shit that crashed a lot, had eye straining CRT monitors, and were 100x more annoying and complicated to set up and use than today.

Everything was an ugly shade of gray, purple, and aqua. Girls had Jennifer Aniston Friends haircuts. The Simpsons and Seinfeld were the defining TV shows of the decade and everyone would be talking about last night's episode around the water cooler.

Anything to do with aliens or dinosaurs was cool. Pamela Anderson and Cindy Crawford posters were mandatory for any locker room or dorm room.

Cars were shitwagons that came in white or aqua, and for a while it was popular to have motorized seat belts. Airbags were mandatory for the first time and every other car on the road was a Ford Taurus or Dodge Caravan.

Music was depressing bullshit with whiny faggots singing about how they're junkies and smell bad and their mom sucks. Eventually people got tired of it and by late in the decade, fun bands like Blink 182 came back into style.

Movies were good. Hollywood finally figured out how to merge high budget special effects with proper writing and storytelling. Tom Cruise, Ahnald, Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, and Tom Hanks ruled the big screen.

>>78068600
is it safe too google her name or will i get v&

damn makes me feel lucky compared to a lot of these stories since my family was rich and well off even for UK standards

>>78063623
Born in 1995, all the same, though I barely remember all the stuff, like scary Vid Company logo, news from Chechnya, all those things.

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>>78064571
REMOVE KEBAB
GREATEST ALLY

Things like HDTVs, texting, and Youtube hadn't been thought of yet, people used landline phones, watched movies on shit VHS tapes, and did business with snail mail, magazines, and catalogs. Computers were noisy shit that crashed a lot, had eye straining CRT monitors, and were 100x more annoying and complicated to set up and use than today. Cell phones were for businessmen, ordinary people didn't have them.

Everything was an ugly shade of gray, purple, and aqua. Girls had Jennifer Aniston Friends haircuts. The Simpsons and Seinfeld were the defining TV shows of the decade and everyone would be talking about last night's episode around the water cooler.

Anything to do with aliens or dinosaurs was cool. Pamela Anderson and Cindy Crawford posters were mandatory for any locker room or dorm room.

Cars were shitwagons that came in white or aqua, and for a while it was popular to have motorized seat belts. Airbags were mandatory for the first time and every other car on the road was a Ford Taurus or Dodge Caravan.

Music was depressing bullshit with whiny faggots singing about how they're junkies and smell bad and their mom sucks. Eventually people got tired of it and by late in the decade, fun bands like Blink 182 came back into style.

Movies were good. Hollywood finally figured out how to merge high budget special effects with proper writing and storytelling. Tom Cruise, Ahnald, Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson, Brad Pitt, and Tom Hanks ruled the big screen.

Bill Clinton was the youngest president since Kennedy especially since he ran against weak-looking old guys both times.

>>78064655
so basically damn eurocucks

Like a really shit imitation of America

muh queen and diana

The 90s felt like a more relaxed and peaceful time. People dressing comfy (aka not too self-conscious about fashion), making friends was easier and you weren't afraid of your own image without the internet/social media and that shit, road trips were enjoyable without those shitty GPS. Time didn't feel so distorted by being permanently sucked through the black hole internet is.

Then again, maybe that's because I was a youngfag.

>>78068934
What about Shit-parade on MTV and MuzTV?

>>78070232
>Bill Clinton was the youngest president
and he acted young and horny

>>78070232
>watched movies on shit VHS tapes
hell I was doing this in mid 00s because we were poor

Very, very Americanised

>>78063467
Pretty cool. We won.

>>78070421
everyone still used VHS in the mid 00s , most people moved to DVDs around 2005, well at least that was my experience

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>>78070511
I SAID, MAYBE

>>78070511
Princess Di was kill.

>>78070693
>Lady di
>actually dies a violent death at a young age
pottery

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https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=1073494

>It is conceivable (although not very probable in the near future) that someday, the fundamental media distribution structure will change radically.
Imagine replacing all your clunky, deteriorating tapes, ROMs, and assorted media with a broadband Internet connection, a hardware decoder, and a liscense agreement. That's not too different than cable or satellite TV, except now instead of broadcasting, your provider narrowcasts directly to you, on demand.
Mental that these blogposts are still around, also that guy hit the nail on the head

>>78070756
But don't you remember the first time you saw a DVD running and were astonished at how much better it looked than VHS.

am English from southern England, but grew up in poverty. obviously nothing like the Russian posters, but my parents divorced when i was 5 years old and by the time i was 7 i'd already lived in 6 different houses
was born in '94 and didn't have internet until '08, lived with my mum and my sister in an average rented house until the divorce money ran out, then we moved to council housing in about '03 i think.
first day we moved in our windows got smashed, the house had no wallpaper or carpets and the boiler didn't work, and we couldn't afford to replace any of it. I remember having slices of plain toast, a bowl of beans or hard boiled eggs for breakfast and then not eating until i got home from school and having plain pasta with ketchup, or rice and ketchup, baked potato with butter, noodles with butter, stuff like that. was horribly underweight my entire childhood and couldn't get rid of the lice I had for like 3 years, got ringworm, tapeworms, impetigo, eczema constantly and always used to walk around the forest barefoot (not a gypsy i swear)
distinctly remember sitting on the concrete floor and making those bead pattern creations where you used an iron to melt the plastic together, there would be long times where i wouldn't bathe and when i did it'd be after mum and sister had already used the water.
going to my dads house was miserable and i remember that it stank of weed (in retrospect) and his flat was filthy and his roommates were junkies, he spray painted MERRY XMAS on one of the walls and i played Time Crisis on his housemate's PS1, my first ever videogame
i used to dream of going to my grandma's house because she had dialup and i could play Runescape or visit AlbiniBlackSheep for a few hours and she used to take us to McDonalds sometimes, those were good times
my mum got with my stepdad and we moved out on his money, it got better by about '10 but it's driven me to become really ambitious since i'd never want anybody to go through what i'd been through

>>78070801
>sharing bath water
I cringe remembering this

>>78070756
>you know remember floppy disks

>>78070798

I was not very old, like 7, but yes it was much better and easier to fast forward, but i mostly just remember being happy that it was shiny, perplexed that it got scratched so easily and somewhat disappointed i could not pull out tape any more

>>78070285
The lack of internet and GPS were definitely one of the best things. Visiting small towns with friends was really awesome, really eerie atmosphere, felt like an horror movie. These days bullshit smartphones keep getting in the way, there is no fun in camping or exploring abandoned places anymore.
I look at /out/ and i see all these people browsing the internet in the middle of woods and going there just to take selfies for their instagrams instead of doing it for adventure and i think "what's the point of this?".

>>78070801

>nothing like the Russian posters
sounds worse

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>>78063467
I can hardly remember a thing, (the very end of the 90s) as i was born 1995 so blurry memories at best then, but remember cruising between two cities from my parents to my grandma and grandpa living in old dirty stinking commie block in both cities, playing with sticks and stones on empty fields between blocks with other kids, old rusty soviet playgrounds, eating fruitella very rarely like my only sweet every week or two weeks, mom used to buy soy cutlets as after rent and they couldn't manage to buy some meat for kids. My younger brother tended to get most of my old clothes so that we wouldn't need to spend excessive money on clothes.I remember that my parents had little to no money at the time even though my father is/was computer scientist, then in the very early 2000s they managed to buy some land and build big comfy house with help of both my grandpas and their financial support and in 2002-2004 it actually started blooming. Glad those days are over.

>>78070886
desu i didnt use the internet until like 2009/2010 and only got a smartphone in 2012

>>78070801
grim

>>78070905
maybe, but what is worse for me is how everybody else at school had enough money to live constantly and the school always told people to give to those in need, and how we all should be so thankful that we didn't live in a third world country, but I was literally starving at times.
Nobody ever helped my family, so i learnt from an early age that charity is worthless and i'd have to work my way out of poverty or become like my parents (my dad missed my 10th birthday because he was at a rave and my mum told me she became a table dancer at one point to help earn more money).
I absolutely despise politicians who say shit like "white males in britain have no idea what it's like to live in poverty", they have no idea

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>>78070096
Google filters that stuff but you could probably see her sucking cock on bing imagesearch

Was born in 1995 so i don't have many memories of that time. But it was okay, their was i think one mini-recession that happened. Was over quickly. All in all, the 90s in Canada/USA were pretty good. You could even argue it was a kind of golden age in most places here. You lived in the pre-insane SJW era and 9/11 had not happened yet. I do remember when 9/11 happened, the teachers were all confused and irate. They just played some happy kids movies for us for a bit and then we all went home. I also remember that CNN broadcast of baghdad getting lit up in 03.

I remember sitting watching my old shitty TV of the planes crashing into the buildings and them collapsing. Over and over. Not many other memories, just memories in that time. Just ones of getting yelled at or the multiple houses i lived in. I do remember when the cops came to tell my mom her sister just got killed by a drunk driver who ran a red, we had just gone to the movies with them.

>>78070936
I traveled through Poland in early 00s as a kid, I can't remember much and I might be mistaking it for another country but I remember it looking more 'Russian'. I think the EU changed it a lot

>>78070083
Music between 1990 and ~1997 was, on average, some of the best ever made. You just sound like a little bitch with a taste for shitty pop music.

>>78070886
Exactly. People are so dependent on smartphones and the internet now, they're unable to do basic tasks like finding their way. They're afraid of improvising and relying on their instinct.

I've been to London with some family members this summer, they were constantly using their phones to find directions instead of wandering to places as they discovered them. They also lacked basic patience, saying "we'll meet there at x time" isn't enough, they need to call you in the process to make sure everything goes as planned.
Try going to a foreign place with your friends or family, you'll see, it's shocking.

People have forgotten how getting lost is sometimes the best thing that can happen when you're visiting.

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>Music between 1990 and ~1997 was, on average, some of the best ever made. You just sound like a little bitch with a taste for shitty pop music.

>>78071015
but isn't it illegal?

>>78063467
>even kittens grow old
Feels bad, man.

>>78063684
Why do they even let you fuckers post here?

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>>78071072
>t. uncultured swine

>>78070801
>>78071004

Honestly very sad that this happened in "modern britain".
Although if it were yankland there probably wouldnt even have been a council house.

Have you done well for yourself? I hope you have.

>>78071099
>>78070886
Things were more natural back then I guess

>>78071115
obviously

>>78071099
desu i dont use my phone for directions , i just read a map beforehand and rely on my memory, or if i am wandering just remember certain key routes and landmarks and their general locations, get quite annoyed at people who track their location through a map on their phone

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>>78071099
>>78071122
check'em btw

>>78071128
Not him but 70s Britain was dirt poor

>>78071170
Same thing for me lad. I would only consider using a GPS or such if I really am in a hurry.

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>>78071066
Yeah, It was pretty shitty until 2002-2003 as we had to meet the requirements to join the EU so the last years before joining were actually pretty active but the fact that some places in Poland are decent nowadays is definitely to a huge extent due to the EU funds. It is literally like different place. Every time I pass by some hip and westernised place in Warsaw I can remember it being occupied by gypsies,chechens and homeless people stinking of piss and shite.

>>78071128
just finished a BSc in Physics and am about to start a masters course in Ultrafast Laser Physics with a month at Oxford University for experimental work, likely leading onto a PhD if i'm lucky
not quite where I want to be yet, but i'm getting there

>>78071004
sorry to hear that man. poverty is relative so i am pretty sure some form of it exists in most 1st world countries. i remember watching some british movie, i forgot the director's name but he used to make movies about poor people living in the london housing projects. they all spoke cockney in that movie so i had to use subtitles. they would say "tea" referring to a snack "what do we have for tea". and they greeted each other "alright? alright". there was so much doom and gloom, like in the us ghettos, so i thought that was an exaggeration for uk. apparently not.

>>78071210
this is 90s tho, after the tories had some time to fix the socialist mess and while the country was prosperous.

>>78071284
thats good, lots of student debt tho?

>>78070801
Youve never had to move to a completely alien country because of war/famine/disease etc. Youve lived in a first world country your whole life yet still you complain. There are literally BILLIONS of people in the world that are much worse off than you, because your country decided to fuck up their countries and steal from/enslave their people. You ought to be ashamed. BAKA.

>>78071313
you know that its common to ask "whats for tea" as in dinner, northern english thing mostly nowadays

t.knower

>>78071119
t. literal actual pedophile

>>78071284
Well hold on tight m8, dunno about Britain, but in France master's degree is the hardest part.
Good luck

t. currently doing a PhD in Physics (materials though)

>the shitty brands
>the looking back as a kid and realizing how you basically shamed your parents for being poor as they tried literally everything to buy you shit you wanted
>the awful food if any, burnt to a crisp porkchops and clearance meats
>waking up to the fighting and yelling as a kid
>half-sisters calling me and my brother bastards because we had brown eyes saying we broke the family gene
>sisters teenage pregnancy
>going to the same middle school as my nephew and his kindergarten teacher thinking i was the dad when i visited him with my 8th grade report card
>brothers suicide attempt at 10
>having to go and drop off pets my dad didn't want because they pissed on everything/were too much work at timmies parking lots or parks crying etc
>one dog we actually kept for his miserable 15 years, never went to the vet and anytime he got sick just had to tough it out
>woke up one night during a WoW binge and he was outside my door frothing at the mouth dying in the summer heat because we had no AC and he was so old. Was telling him to please not die and had him in my arms.
>woke up my parents and my dad told us to leave the room
>heard him strangle the dog to death as we waited outside the door and then we put him in a towel to take to some vet, my dad didn't want to pay the money for his ashes
>dad spiral into depression and hospitalization which we were told as kids that he was just sick
>parents divorce a couple days after my 18th birthday and my 1st day of work

It is mostly fuzzy honestly, never really had a childhood just played fucking WoW and got left alone for most of it.

>>78071284
wtf
social mobility is real

>>78071284
Fair play to you mate. You should be really proud of yourself.

>>78071322
the student debt is imaginary, don't have a pay a penny until i earn over £21,00 a year
>>78071328
eat shit
>>78071353
yeah i got 80% average and i'm used to those 70 hour weeks so i reckon i can do another year no problem even if it's 50% harder than 3rd year
>>78071380
this all being said i'm the only person from my estate who went to uni and both my nextdoor neighbours kids who were the same age as me are now married with children, it's all to do with personal motivation
>>78071417
thanks buddy

>>78063467
Cartoon Network in English, because Polish version wasn't a thing yet
almost exclusively Polish hit songs on the radio
cheap orangade and chocolate, toffee, and strawberry flavoured crisps
DBZ, tazos, Lego blocks, playing football and hide and seek
fun times

>>78071099
Have you guys heard of home automation, like apple home kit etc? That's the ultimate faggotry. I love the examples in documentation "Siri, is my house in Taco locked?" (yea i have 10 fucking houses and i forget which one is locked). "Siri, please make it warmer in the bedroom upstairs". People buy wifi enabled door locks and thermometers.

>>78071360
sorry for your doggo, and half sisters,and sister, and brother, and parents. Doesnt sound great desu, how are you now?

>>78071428
Good knowledge, cool degree. Maybe not the most money in it but its certainly a step up regardless

>>78071434
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-OBu1nHwI4

>>78071437
Just another useless product to make us spit cash and give up our independence.
I've also heard google has made some kind of home assistant - a microphone recording your questions, interpreting them and answering from what it gathers on the internet.

People using this crap would be fucked in a situation of survival.

recession but overall good times otherwise
early 00's were better

>>78071219
Or if i am tired/ cant be bothered, for cars anyway. Using it for your person just seems autistic.

>>78071349
Why are you on a site for lolicons, normalfag?

>>78064529
>>78065970
american cold war propaganda
ignore these posts

Well, I had a pretty hard childhood. I don't really want to talk about it.
It's all better now.

>>78071713
Every Russian admits that the 90s were shit

>>78071471

I am doing okay i guess, was a full blown social retard up until about 19. Got my first phone. Had to teach myself how to basically be a person and communicate with people etc. Just mostly work as a construction labourer for guys my dad knows mostly. Had about 14k saved up but bought a shitbox car for 4500, then add on licensing fees/insurance it added up quick. Fell into a pretty bad place for a bit, went to the hospital and didn't work for a bit. So most of that money vanished as i would just aimlessly drive around for hours etc. Got some meme anxiety/depression holding me back, but maybe i am just a weak person honestly. Never went to college/uni because i have the a literal grade 4-5 math level. Did well in highschool otherwise.

Just don't know to be quite honest, living and growing up in a constant state of anxiety/negativity just makes your outlook bad. Does not feel like it is worth waking up most days. Tried joining the military in 2013 but i was a dumb kid and we had a massive budget cut. Plus i applied for only combat trades, so did not get in. Going to reopen my app and apply for infantry/mechanic and a communications job.

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>early 90s

Hyperinflation, urban violence (even more than today), the only think that could make Brazilians happy at that time was Ayrton Senna, but then he died

>mid 90s

After some economic reforms, the inflation ended. It was middle-class paradise, since our currency was pegged to the dollar and imports were cheap. Culturally, there was a lot of Americanization during this period

>late 90s

Another economic crisis causes mass unemployment and the rise of radical left-wing politics

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>>78071772
there is like 10 different stories by the same poster in this thread
protip: none of them happened, they are (You) bait

>>78071713
My parents also told me about queues for everything during 90s. Very dire time there

Funny stories about people stealing my uncles jeans and shoes

>>78071772
that may be true, but i remember reading that story about an old big mac a while ago

>>78071535
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJt35v6ujXQ

>>78071791
when did monkey violence start in brazil? 80? 70? 60?

>>78071890
>when did monkey violence start in brazil?
>80? 70? 60?
yes, BC

>>78071782
You should go to a technical/trade college and become a tradesman, self employed so you can fit it around your anxiety and its a short course.

Our lives are defined by our relationships, we need meaning to be happy, without it there is nothing for us other than existing, you have already made yourself a normal person so the next step is surely within reach.

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>>78071890
80s, fueled by economic collapse and the drug trade.

Of course there was violence before, but nothing on that level. Before it was a bunch of guys killing each other with handguns and knives, after the 80s, it was about entire areas of major cities being controlled by heavy-armed gangs.

Pic related, it was common during the early 90s for dozens of favela niggers to start robbing everyone on beaches in Rio de Janeiro, it's called "Arrastão". Such things don't really happen anymore.

>>78063467
Delete this picture

>>78072045
kek, nah their AD countdown started when the portuguese came.

>>78071929
where are all the fat people?
also this shit reminded me of LA riots also in the 90's. not the same thing but still...

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>>78063467
Britpop, trip hop and other stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH6TJU0qWoY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eBZqmL8ehg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlOje4ly4hg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRtFnxwmM3M

etc etc

>>78070511
>>78070275
No idea what the fuck you're on about, because as >>78072436 mentions British pop culture had another push and reached global status once again.

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>>78063467
Cities full of Eastern European refugees.
Going to school, being a poor trashy kid, having some pretty cool friends, timing make-out sessions, being retarded with fireworks, stealing candy.

Im having mixed feelings remembering it all.

lots of amazing video games and not hating myself

DEEP STATE
THROWING KURDS
INTO
ACID WELLS

ISLAMISTS
BEING
TORTURED
IN
PRISONS

RELIGIOUS FIGURES
HAVING THEIR BEARD
PLUCKED OUT
ONE HAIR BY ONE
IN PRISON

PKK ATTACKS

ECONOMIC CRISIS

>>78072979
>DEEP STATE
>THROWING KURDS
>INTO
>ACID WELLS
>ISLAMISTS
>BEING
>TORTURED
>IN
>PRISONS
>RELIGIOUS FIGURES
>HAVING THEIR BEARD
>PLUCKED OUT
>ONE HAIR BY ONE
>IN PRISON
sounds comfy

>>78072436
A lot of ripping off the Beatles too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rr4tXN2eJM

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>>78073001
indeed

>>78073118
>PTHC hurtcore with hard cums and full deep owies
Translate it, weebs.

>>78071833
>there is like 10 different stories by the same poster in this thread
yea i also found it a bit fishy
i mean,i'm originally from bosnia and we've also went through that transitional period from socialism to democracy and on top of that all,we've also had that brutal,fucked up war happening at the same time but i still don't think things were THAT bad(in terms of poverty at least)

>>78064231
But it's true, what you had in the 90's was basically the collapse of a whole economic system that controlled and regulated everything, a small period of chaos and adjustment is expected, especially if it is followed by sudden massive privatizations done by corrupts with close political ties with the old system creating a caste of oligarchs.

Singapore or Switzerland are capitalist countries, not you in the 90's, in Hungary you probably had higher taxes and it was harder to do business in the 90's after the fall of communism than now, but yes, whatever you were very "capitalistic", capitalism is the big bad wolf, now sleep tight my sweet boy.

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>>78073249
>mfw the first paragraph is the exact same thing that is happening here

>>78070146
>scary Vid Company logo
Bloody hell, I literally had nightmares about it when I was a kid. Used to close my eyes when watching TV right before the logo was coming up.

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>Land of the sopa de macaco
>born 91
>70's~80's American movies (no cable)
>60's~70's American cartoons
>School at time still had majority of white children
>If it was heavy, it was expensive
>Japanese stuff where top tier
>German cars where top tier
>no gay's rights

At the age of 8, i think that today we would be conquering the space. Now I watch every great civilization die out.

>>78073249
>it wasn't reeeeal capitalism
Fuck up

>>78072045
>Such things don't really happen anymore.
Yes, they do. There are at less 5 Arastões per weekend in one single beach in Rio de Janegro.

>>78073157
How does this subhuman thing live with itself?

For me it wasn't too bad, because my father got lucky and got a job in the main energy company in the city, so we had actual money. Aunt was in charge of assigning food cards, and she snuck some leftover vodka cards, and you could exchange them for basically anything. We even got a PC in 1994. It even had a CD-ROM, which costed ~$500 at that time. These times did not seem that dire because of all that, but looking back I realize that I was very lucky.
And fuck the Vid Company logo.

>>78073518
The good thing about capitalism is that it is not an structured ideology elaborated by a pedantic jewish burgeoise who lived from other people charity. Capitalism just means that "the money you make (capital), stays in your pocket", the closer you are to that principle, the more capitalist you are.

>>78071890
The correct answer is 84~86. From 64 to 84 we had a militar goverment. When we go into democracy, people chose somone who only care about economy. Hedid not believe that violence was the only thing "keeping the brother down". Soon troops leave the streets, the niggers come, like a ape that was locked from years, they came stealing everything that was not bolted in the ground.
This is how an entire country went from first world candidate, to africa tier shithole.

>>78073654
From media reports over the last 3-4 years it seems that Brazil is in the process of degenerating into such terrible conditions once more. Ive seen a number of news articles describing such arrastão attacks quite frequently over the past 2 years. Most cities in Brazil seem to make the entire city of Chicago look like a utopian paradise.

>tfw they always bring up my city when comparing violence levels around the world

>>78073743
You take one wrong turn off the tourist trail and you're likely to get shot and robbed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40847751

>>78073743
Yes, left now is extremely concern about the huge amount of minors smoking crack and hitting people heads with bricks to steal cellphones. They are only kids, poor little angels.
>>78073845
Dude, if you get lost, you get fucked. Seriously, when traveling to brazil, always know where you are and where you want to go.
Knowing those things, just relax and avoid the niggers. Not all of then want to rob you, but hell, some of them will try.

>>78072979
is this a post-punk song?

>>78073157
"hurtcore" doesn't sound good desu

>>78063467
>1990 - 1994
Filled with political bullshit

>1994 - 2000
SJW meter went into the red band where it remains to this day

>>78063467
It was the best time for my country. We were the 3rd european economy, 6th globally, 4rd high wealth in the continent, a general optimism and perception of general and dpsreaded well being, few and acceptable percentage of immigrants (less than 10% of the population) ... techno/trance/progressive and early hardcore and hardstyle music everywhere .... sigh

>>78064060
I was in Palestine / Istrael in late 1998. I remember a quite peaceful country. Rabin made a good work with you and the jews, i never understood why his agrement never worked later

>>78071867
Yeah, because it's my story, my memories and it's real.

>>78064443
About former DDR, is true that you after the unification rebluilded them and now they're really ''auferstanded aus ruinen'' or there are still heavy differences?

It was a shithole, oh wait.

Fucking horrible, literally Africa tier. Drugs and drug addicts everywhere, mafia running the city, murders every day. It was dangerous to go to school and it was dangerous to be inside the school because anything minimally valuable could be stolen. Huge poverty, my family ate mostly potatoes, mayonnaise and sometimes chicken. We had to grow the plants in granny's small piece of land in a village. Everyone drank a lot. All the things you could buy were American humanitarian aid sold in markets along with cheap Chinese shit. All these neoliberal policies of Pinochet style were a huge disaster for Russia.

>>78063912
We had even more uncontrolled one than Hungary, it was disgusting. Holy shit, you all should read more on 90s Russia to realize what the hell is.

>>78077552

So did Russia actually improve?

>>78077552
Did this all start to happen right after the USSR dissolved, or was this gradual?

>>78073249
you dont know shit underage smartass, go back to pol and lick american ass

We were rather poor back then and couldn't really afford nice holiday trips like everyone else who went to Spain and Italy (and, later on, to the Canary Islands and such). The first family holiday we could really afford was in 1996 or 97 when we went to the nearby Czech Republic. I don't think my parents were very much aware of the state the country was in back then (with Slovakia having seceded only a few years prior), but we were all excited about how affordable everything was for us.

We could have ice cream every day, and more than one scoop even! A lot of places were run down but not that we cared. Major tourist traps like Cesky Krumlov were already polished and overrun (ads promising you "Schnitzels bigger than plate!"). There was a toy store in Susice where my sisters and I blew what little pocket money we had (one or two Deutsche Marks a week) on little mole merchandise; it was all hand-crafted though. Another shop on town had purple Ronaldo (the real one from Brazil, not that faggot) shirts showing him scoring a goal.

All in all I had the impression that people there were working hard to get back on their feet. My father ended up employing the son of the owner of the hotel we stayed in a few years later and kept coming back for birdwatching with his brother.

>>78077689
Tbh first food troubles have started in the early 80s, when soviet economical system started to decay. But nobody has done nothing to prevent the crisis and liberal reforms of the 90s have worsened the situation

>>78063467
Pretty tough times in some ways, first half of the 90s was a recession, not a lot of work and duds like me ended up at uni to get a degree so there was a few better options. Halfway through uni it wasn't looking to improve any time soon so I got a scholarship and the military paid for the other half of uni, then into officers school for another year and a half- I also did reservist stuff for a few years as well for some extra bucks.
Stayed in the military for quite a while after that, got to travel about, lot of deployments

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>>78070146
>>78073360
>google this
Jesus christ what is this creepy shit. This was shown to children?

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Very comfy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXC6uP6494E

Well seems like 90's was a difficult times for almost every one. I though it was only in post soviet countries.

Is that Masha Babko?

It was shit but I was lucky personally. I am from Moscow, and no one starved here, we didn't have famine, just huge poverty. Food was shit though, I guess that's why my generation isn't tall, we are all 170-180 cm while modern youth looks like giants. My dad was a manager in a big corporation so we had money for food, my dad also bought a car in 1998, we could afford clothes from a market. Still no computer or console, I got PC with internet only in 2002.
School was fucking violent, daily fights, everyone was mugged many times. I got my hand broken and once they hit my head on a wall corner so I had hematoma. Maybe it is the reason why I like imageboards.
My grandfather was a communist who bought a gun and was waiting for USSR to come back. He drank a lot. My father was pol tier nationalist obsessed with Jews while being 1/2 Jew, what a cringeworthy shit. Mom was apolitical.
Music was beautiful though, Russian rock and 80s-90s pop music were everywhere. TV was full of soviet movies, cartoons and with tons of 80s western shit simultaneously. I think my generation is like American 80s generation because all the fashion, music, movies we had in 90s were in USA in 80s.
It was really dangerous to walk the streets after dark in my neighborhood and hoods nearby were even worse. Gangsters killed each other in a streets pretty often, I remember one mafia cafe near my school to be incinerated with gangsters inside, that was a first time I saw dead people I my life.
Everything was dirty and half broken because government could not repair anything. Street lights lying on the ground etc.
Life in Moscow was not that bad as the life in province but still it was shit. And now we are slowly going back to 90s with this crisis.

>>78078092
Westerners were okay, post USSR and Latin America were in shit.
>>78077730
I was in Czech republic in 1998 (my dad was rich) and it seemed to be really 1st world compared to Russia. I felt like I was in the other planet with clean streets, modern cars and fashion.

In the 90s the soviet smell was still really strong in everything. All those sport goods shops and toy shops with generic names like "Sport equipment" and "Toys". Old single hall cinemas with a flat screen and wooden chairs. Almost no foreign cars and sill a lot of really old cars were driving around (like from american 40s and 50s). Soviet made trams, soviet busses and soviet metro cars of old models were everywhere. Playgrounds for children were decaying and those that still were around were literally made of cast iron. The papers were full of scary storikies, chechens, aliens, werewolves. And people belieived them.

>>78078399
>The papers were full of scary storikies, chechens, aliens, werewolves. And people belieived them.
The most weird shit about our 90s. Everything was Agent Malder here, everyone believed any shit seen on the TV or read in a pulp magazine.

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Things were pretty good then Asian financial crisis crashed all of Asia and nipah outbreak resulted in piggy holocaust.
Never truly recovered since then.
People also used to be thinner back then.

>>78063467
Not very good. The time of the real amounts of muslims coming in, the real amounts of politically correctness, When people started bringing in disgusting amounts of non-whites like never before. America forced us to go to war to kill Iraqis with them, Hong Kong back to China. Hong Kong was literally the end of the significant part of our empire. Now we only have rocks. I also think it was the years when the real nigger culture came in.
The is what my grandfather and own view of history told me.

full of skinheads

>>78080746
This. And Tony fucking Blair getting elected to condemn our nation to history just to top it all off.

>>78077928
People loved to watch "Pole chudes" (Field of Wonders, russian Wheel of Fortune), which was broadcasted on Channel 1 by Vid. Or was it "Chto?Gde?Kogda?". So children were able to see this scary shit. I remember when I ran to other room when I heard those "dr-dr-dr" sounds

>>78063467
Safe, cheap enjoyable.

Then all these poles moved into my area and crime skyrocketed

>>78063467
Great pornstar

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>>78063467
>What was your country like in the 90s?
A lot more finnish
>What are your memories of that period?
Really good

>What was your country like in the 90s?
a bit less algerian

>>78063467
>What was your country like in the 90s
better and worse in different ways. I look back at it nostalgically
>What are your memories of that period?
Going out with mates to illegal raves in London every weekend and pinging our tits off. Good times