I think one of the things that's tricky but vital to grasp is that life in the Soviet Union, for most people, most of the time, was ... fine. Not great, not terrible. There was an enormous amount of grinding systematic bullshit much more than there was Black Marias at the door.https://twitter.com/profmusgrave/status/1390128391299420160 …
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My other prof. who did Russian history there was younger and had made her first research trip to the USSR to the Azerbaijan-SSR in 1979 or 1980 and she talked about realizing her mail was being opened and read by the KGB.
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She also noted that she learned from the foreign oil experts they had flown in to Baku just how behind Soviet engineers were in oil technology, to the point where public western trade magazines were sought and translated as a way to catch up.
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