Re:The Last Soviet Generation
by artem247 on Saturday December 25, 2021 @05:22AM
(#29682010)
>> Stores had cigs, vodka, butter and milk and tubers (awesome!!)
Where do you get it from? Of course it depended on time and place, but you can buy a lot of stuff in Kyiv (for example) in 70's and 80's. Some things were 'deficit', but they were more of a luxury items. Also the quality was rather good, due to not having cost cutting.
>> a few scientists might have a summer dacha
Dachas were not exactly a sign of the elite. Cars, on the other hand...
>> science town in nowheresville
These things existed for some sort of top-secret military research, there were plenty of R&D labs in big cities for a more mundane subjects.
You just have an axe to bury with communism, don't you?
Where do you get it from? Of course it depended on time and place, but you can buy a lot of stuff in Kyiv (for example) in 70's and 80's. Some things were 'deficit', but they were more of a luxury items. Also the quality was rather good, due to not having cost cutting.
>> a few scientists might have a summer dacha Dachas were not exactly a sign of the elite. Cars, on the other hand...
>> science town in nowheresville These things existed for some sort of top-secret military research, there were plenty of R&D labs in big cities for a more mundane subjects.
You just have an axe to bury with communism, don't you?