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Old 12-10-2015, 05:46 AM  
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Originally Posted by Mutt View Post
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.
I forgot to mention one more way to spend a weekend in Soviet Union. It's was called turbaza - an outdoor family camp. Those very not luxurious (I'd say they were spartan), but their main advantage was nature. For example, a company where my father was working for had a turbaza near the river. Everything was free there: free house, free breakfast, lunch and dinner. Also if you want to take a boat, you just take it for as many hours as you want - everything was owned by the company.

It was like this:













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