Originally Posted by Robin

Even though Romania wasn't in URSS the situation was quite bad before the '90s.
You had cards for food and you would get portions like 3 eggs, i bottle of milk, half of bread etc. If you had the chance to eat a proper salami most probably the next day the "Securitate" would have knock on your door because you were reported by some neighbor. But, there were not many who could eat meat, most of the things were done from soya, of course except those in the country side which could raise a chicken, cow, whatever.

Waiting for bread and milk: Huge freaking lines of hundreds of people, sometimes waiting days to get something for their families to eat. And the story goes on, I remember when I had the first Pepsi, king of the world, you couldn't find stuff like this that easy. For a kid in those day, it was priceless.

Leaving the cons aside, because there is a lot to write about there were some good parts, miraculously, but they were. Everybody had job, who didn't want a job would go to jail and en dup on some construction site anyways. Everybody had money, cuz they couldn't spend them. Everybody could go on a holiday cuz they had money. Whoever was working could get a house very easy, and it was stupidly cheap. A lot of construction was going on, roads, houses, parks etc. And the last and not the least, in '89 Romania was debt free.

I really hoped Ukraine would have been left alone, but now Crimeea got attached to mother Russia. Dirty game I say, since Ukraine was promised to be protected by the Occident if they give away the nuclear arsenal and it was the 2nd country after Russia if I know it correctly.
I also hope that Moldova and Transnistria are left alone, otherwise it will get even nastier.