"They pretend to pay us, so we pretend to work" -a Soviet worker of the USSR.
Bygone days of communist plenty in Moscow department store: https://youtu.be/t8LtQhIQ2AE via @YouTube
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There's a story of Vladimir Krutov coming to play hockey in Vancouver. Was shocked by so much food in the first..
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Grocery store he and his wife visited they bought almost all the food.
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communists' expertise - how to turn a rich land into a poor country. May they rot in hell.
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distant relatives fr Moscow visited in the 80s got pissed when we went to Safeway. They thought it was propaganda.
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I used the words land and country deliberately. Freedom was THE lacking element in Soviet life
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No, that's an invention of communism apologists.
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and it didn't last long. Next came the true expression of communism -hlodomor
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