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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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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(To be fair, my third "I learned about the USSR" story is that one of my mother's close friends was a Gulag survivor who had escaped the USSR during the cold war and went on to work for RFE/RL in Europe before coming to the states...so there's that.)
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