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Originally Posted by Mutt
Well an engineer and teacher are educated professionals. So I bet you lived better than a factory worker's family.
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Unfortunately not. In soviet Union we had a very weird scale (it was called "
уровниловка"). So a salary of an engender was the same as a salary of a plant worker (in the bast case). Teachers and medics had the most lowest salaries at all. So I lived in a very average family which was close to the low end.
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Originally Posted by Mutt
What I'm saying is that if you're telling me the average working Joe in the Soviet Union could have an apartment AND a dacha in the country PLUS a MONTH at a Black Sea resort and he had 100% job security - there are many people who were living in capitalist countries like the US and Canada who would have traded much of their 'freedom' for that life.
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I'm the one who would and who will. I can buy everything I want (apartments, a village house, a car, a ticket to a real tropical sea resort), but please let me decide what I want to do and where I want to go. Freedom is the most important thing in my life.
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Originally Posted by Mutt
Communism is bad, socialism if you follow the progress of societies through history was inevitable.
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It IS inevitable. Take a look at Sweden.