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Originally Posted by LizAEBN
Hey, darlin'! It was great meeting you too - I was just talking to Nadia yesterday about all your exciting news, in fact ;)
Though I am pretty sure everyone behind the Iron Currtain was starving back then, right? I mean, PJ Rourke said so...  |
Yes, and all Americans wear cowboy hats and look like Paul Newman
It's one of the silliest propaganda that I ever heard and that I face on a regular basis (well need to exclude Ceaucescu's Romania - that was really rough..
):
THE TRUTH is that those 40 - 70 years under the communist reign were much EASIER to live for MOST of the people!
- you didn't need to overperform
- you didn't need to have any ambitions
- there were no overtimes
- you were always employed
- you had your job, your flat, your cottage, your wife, your dog and your car (well you waited for a couple of years and it was a crap but there was noone you could envy a better car!)
The live has been good for most! Not for me as a person with ambitions I would always be a rebel and probably emmigrate soon but a regular Joe's? they never forget!
Take it or leave it, that's the truth, even the nowadays propaganda is to push the super western performance oriented style of life with no kids / silly sounding job title and bunch of loans and mortgages as the best what you can get..
Nadia is awesome!
