I knew an exchange student from Romania when I was in college. Her family got leftover food at a restaurant. The first time she was in an American supermarket, she couldn't believe there was a whole aisle devoted to cereal.
She was not eager to return to her own country any time soon.
Boris Yeltsin was in absolute awe when he made a side stop at a supermarket about 30 years ago. The abundance of everything compared to what was available in the Soviet Union shook his view of communism
I'm a Finn, and visited Soviet Union several times with my parents in my teens. They had friends in Soviet Estonia, people who were NOT fond of Soviet Union.
That place was a damn shithole. And the way they spied on everybody... the joke was that the walls of the hotel Viru in Tallinn had more microphones in them than concrete. It was not much of a surprise after Estonia got its independence to find out that that wasn't much of an exaggeration. If any of you ever travel there check out the KGB museum in that hotel - they had their own floor and what they left there has been preserved.
Wouldn't have believed back then that that kind of spying of everybody would one day become the norm in the western countries too. And that makes my blood boil.
And yes, that woman just might be old enough to remember early childhood in Soviet Union. And it, of course, didn't immediately get better there after the communists fell, so it's possible she isn't exaggerating that much if they moved to your country some years after that. Maybe.
Or she is doing that mostly because she knows it's one way to become popular. Not that big a crime, I suppose. She may still even mean what she says about defending your country, even if she personally doesn't remember much she may have been raised on the stories of what it was like.
Tallinn is awesome. And yeah, I love how they treated the Russians like shit there. I remember being at a mall getting some coffee and some Russian guy in front of me kept saying "c molokom!" (with milk)...and the guy behind the counter literally told him to fuck off and handed him a napkin. I ordered my drink, and told the cashier the Russian was asking for milk...he just grinned and said "I know".
The Russian occupation regime tried to wipe out their history, culture and language. Killed many people, robbed them of their independent country. So no wonder the ordinary Russians were treated like shit too for the sins they did not commit. Sad, but that's life. Looks like they have healed pretty well though. One of the most peaceful countries in Europe and thus the World.
My mother taught foreigners how to speak English during the peak of the cold war. She had many students from bloc countries. She also pointed out how her African immigrants were so appreciative to be here and would regularly contrast their attitude with many of the American blacks that she had to deal with (she taught in an inner city area). Always took time to point out to me that the problems with our country were not because of America, but because of those who were ungrateful to be here.
I will never forget she said every semester she'd ask her class "what is the thing that is most different here?" You would think it would be the buildings or tech or whatever, but no, it was the grocery store. They were all amazed at that more than anything else.
My parents literally waited in bread lines in Romania. There was "no widespread evidence of election fraud" and people weren't even allowed to talk to each other. They weren't allowed to go out of their own towns without special permission. The president, Nicolai Ceausescu, would win with 99.9% of the vote.
We're already close to that in America. You have to wait in lines to get in stores in certain (always Democrat) states already
I knew an exchange student from Romania when I was in college. Her family got leftover food at a restaurant. The first time she was in an American supermarket, she couldn't believe there was a whole aisle devoted to cereal.
She was not eager to return to her own country any time soon.
Boris Yeltsin was in absolute awe when he made a side stop at a supermarket about 30 years ago. The abundance of everything compared to what was available in the Soviet Union shook his view of communism
I'm a Finn, and visited Soviet Union several times with my parents in my teens. They had friends in Soviet Estonia, people who were NOT fond of Soviet Union.
That place was a damn shithole. And the way they spied on everybody... the joke was that the walls of the hotel Viru in Tallinn had more microphones in them than concrete. It was not much of a surprise after Estonia got its independence to find out that that wasn't much of an exaggeration. If any of you ever travel there check out the KGB museum in that hotel - they had their own floor and what they left there has been preserved.
Wouldn't have believed back then that that kind of spying of everybody would one day become the norm in the western countries too. And that makes my blood boil.
And yes, that woman just might be old enough to remember early childhood in Soviet Union. And it, of course, didn't immediately get better there after the communists fell, so it's possible she isn't exaggerating that much if they moved to your country some years after that. Maybe.
Or she is doing that mostly because she knows it's one way to become popular. Not that big a crime, I suppose. She may still even mean what she says about defending your country, even if she personally doesn't remember much she may have been raised on the stories of what it was like.
Tallinn is awesome. And yeah, I love how they treated the Russians like shit there. I remember being at a mall getting some coffee and some Russian guy in front of me kept saying "c molokom!" (with milk)...and the guy behind the counter literally told him to fuck off and handed him a napkin. I ordered my drink, and told the cashier the Russian was asking for milk...he just grinned and said "I know".
The Russian occupation regime tried to wipe out their history, culture and language. Killed many people, robbed them of their independent country. So no wonder the ordinary Russians were treated like shit too for the sins they did not commit. Sad, but that's life. Looks like they have healed pretty well though. One of the most peaceful countries in Europe and thus the World.
Nah bro spying is good. Thats how we cats8h the goat terrorist and p3doz. Only a p3do and goat terrorist would object. Are you a p3d0?
Did you just assume my gender? :D
And be polite, and clear, when you are talking to an older lady. Full sentences and no texting shortcuts, child.
Modern schools... Bah. Don't seem to teach anything anymore.
https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/When-Boris-Yeltsin-went-grocery-shopping-in-Clear-5759129.php
First line of the article: In 1989 Russian president Boris Yeltsin's wide-eyed trip to a Clear Lake grocery store led to the downfall of communism.
That’s the one
Yelsin wasn't a president of anything in 1989.
Maybe Chris Wallace wrote the caption.
Rumor says he thought it was a propaganda set up to push the narrative of capitalism
So he went to check out other random supermarkets in different places, until he was satisfied it was all genuine
Live under communism for long enough, and you'll find yourself believing abundance of basic necessities is impossibile. How about that
I had heard that as well. Funny how well propaganda and big lies work. Sad.
My mother taught foreigners how to speak English during the peak of the cold war. She had many students from bloc countries. She also pointed out how her African immigrants were so appreciative to be here and would regularly contrast their attitude with many of the American blacks that she had to deal with (she taught in an inner city area). Always took time to point out to me that the problems with our country were not because of America, but because of those who were ungrateful to be here.
I will never forget she said every semester she'd ask her class "what is the thing that is most different here?" You would think it would be the buildings or tech or whatever, but no, it was the grocery store. They were all amazed at that more than anything else.
My parents literally waited in bread lines in Romania. There was "no widespread evidence of election fraud" and people weren't even allowed to talk to each other. They weren't allowed to go out of their own towns without special permission. The president, Nicolai Ceausescu, would win with 99.9% of the vote.
We're already close to that in America. You have to wait in lines to get in stores in certain (always Democrat) states already
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