Re:Everyday Soviet Nostalgia
by moltar on Sunday January 14, 2018 @11:09AM
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The article feels very much agenda filled. The past was not all so terrible. And remembering the past is just history. It’s good to know history, whatever it is. I know it’s hard for the west to understand that where history has been rewritten numerous times to fit the narrative.
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It was not all so terrible indeed. It was much worse. A couple of American journalists in 1940s USSR? They would see as much of real Soviet life as modern tourists would of North Korea.
USSR even had a special programme targeting famous artists/writers etc. They'd invite them to Moscow or Leningrad and give them a majestic tour about how nice Soviet life is.
We had an interesting situation in Lithuania. A lot of local inteligentsia took the tour in 1930s and initially supported Soviet occupation. Quite a few of them quickly backpedaled when they saw how real day-to-day soviet life looks like.
That programme is one of the reasons why a lot of famous people in the West supported USSR during cold war. Old the bad things must be bourgeois propaganda anyway..
Re:Everyday Soviet Nostalgia
by realandreskytt on Sunday January 14, 2018 @12:00PM
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Having lived pieces of that and seen survivors, I’d say it was pretty bad and quite a bit worse than the article describes. Unless you belonged to the nomenclatura and were ok with being at the mercy of the Aparat.
Re:Everyday Soviet Nostalgia
by arwhatever on Sunday January 14, 2018 @11:40AM
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Solzhenitsyn would say otherwise.
Re:Everyday Soviet Nostalgia
by michaelcampbell on Sunday January 14, 2018 @12:09PM
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> I know it’s hard for the west to understand that where history has been rewritten numerous times to fit the narrative.
Or the East. Or any civilization.