People from Czech, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Baltic countries...
 

Please tell gfy what do you think about russia and how it was to live in ussr.

Just your personal opinion on things

Do you feel a difference or did your parents/elders tell you what it was back to then?

CZ, PL, RO and HU were never part of the USSR...

That being said, back when poland was communist you'd basically get cards that you traded for meat or fuel or alcohol (edit: different cards for each of course, you don't have to pick between if you are getting booze, gas or kielbasa). If there was a wedding, you'd get more alcohol cards for instance so people could drink at the reception. The way it was explained to me was that everyone had hella money but the stores didn't have anything to buy. There was a store called Pewex that sold imported products - you'd exchange polish currency for USD and shop there instead.

i never told they were in ussr, but highly influeced, Warsaw block

yeah...hell of money that wasnt worth shit in free market ;-) like it is in cuba now

anyway, as to answer your question... it was f.. up, but dont worry about it. there will be no communism going back ;-)

what else ? besides taking people liberties communists also build roads, gave education to the people and decent health care... so it wasnt genocide...

They also built roads - better roads in west germany, gave better education and better health care.. like madalton said, just compare east/west germany and you can easily see where do people lived/still live a better life.

Back then you didn't had any free right of speech, you didn't had the right to make a business, work for yourself and make money as many as you like.

Of course, others still regret it because it was a safer place for every individual, everybody worked (there was no such thing as unemployment), received cheap houses and the payment was ok for every individual (the problem was that the option of buying things was very limited :) )

The ones that regret communism are, in general, the ones from the country villages, the uneducated ones because the rest of the class didn't want to earn as much as as peasant or an industrial worker, the wealth was redistributed so that everyone, regards their professional skill, knowledge and experience , would be paid the same.

I tell you: I fucking hate Putin and the way he acts. Professional, but evil - for me.
Russian influence is getting stronger in the middle-europian countries and I fucking dislike it. It seems they succeeded in making Hungary a totally russia-dependent country in terms of energy supplies. :( I dislike it.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh you really should get the guns and go there to protect your country, or you will just sit on net and blablabla

it is not problem for BIG SIZE IDIOT aka MrDeiz:)

To remove all doubts now, this was ussr

http://www.theodora.com/maps/new9/soviet_union_map.jpg

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.

Dirty (as ALL politic games), but bloodless victory.

Hmm which one will be the next? :)

But , isn't most of Europe in the same boat, dependent on Russian gas and oil ?

Fixed that for you, dude :pimp

Wow, what a shame! Чувак, не сдавайся, борись за свою независимость! Ешь горох, вырабатывай больше газа. Твоя судьба нам искренне небезразлична. Коминтерн с тобой, товарищ :thumbsup

whats always up with the posting in russian? i think its extremely impolite and looks like you have something to hide

if you have to say something - say it so that everyone understands

(and so far everything posted in russian seems to be only insults anyways)

ever heard of ignorant ruskies?
in czech there're plenty of those, and some few here at gfy

in most cases he posts shit in russian, this time it's some lame ass irony
ohh... and yeah, he barely makes any worthy points. he's a known keyboard warrior and waste of time

Hint: http://translate.google.com/ :winkwink:

i'm annoyed - but not stupid :2 cents:

Russia and 1st World country, now that's an oxymoron if I've ever seen one :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Stefan, it's the 2nd time you are saying that answering the Russian... time to change the tactics, what would Pooteen do? LOL
Man, on a serious note, the Russian stands on his grounds no matter what.
I'm a native Russian speaker and I'm not scared of Ukrainian like those in Crimea - mo-fucking-rons, may be it's for the best they got cut out.

thx for spelling it right for me
looks like i've made a lot of mistakes with it lately

please send your message to the european council: we don't need to reproduce this shit in this nanny state of europe.

russia seems to be a country ruled by corruption (from my point of view here) but not a new soviet union

it's better when everything is restricted it saves the nature

http://monstersfilmandlit.files.word...1280-10241.jpg

Im from Latvia. I do respect Putin and I do respect Russia!
Current Ukrainian goverment are criminals and not legitimate.
I think that Crimea people made right choice to join Russia. Im sure they will have now better life...

Fuck you, cool?

you're from Latvia, but you're ruskie as shit, aren't u :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

And it feels to me like only yesterday when the US Department of Treasury and EU branded so many Latvian banks as money laundering institutions for New Russians.

The living conditions haven't much improved for the majority in here. There's 200 thousand people on welfare, the vast majority barely making a living (meaning can't save a dime if they pay for their own housing etc.), pretty much everybody is in huge personal debt, only the very top make European money, and then there's a few multi billionaires.

Somehow I believe that Czechoslovakia, probably after Yugoslavia had the best standard of living in the Eastern block.

It would be quite interesting to hypothetically compare how would the economy look like if they managed to keep their eastern markets, as this country was always in the forefront when it comes to technology and pretty much established across the whole RVHP.

Carlos, we should ask Stefan why is he making more money then both of us combined I assume LOL.

those countries from eastern block are still communists in 2014 year even if they seems free countries. Giving bribe for example- everybody from eastern europe knows very well giving or asking for bribes its something normal like walking on the sun.Along with many other things who didnt changed yet until now.

yeah, right :1orglaugh

of course:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:error

Well I'm not sure about your point, but I am nothing but happy that I don't work in the "local" environment, making a living internationally keeps you making a good living and sane alike.

I am almost the impression that most of this country's people either need to be put on a leash off they fuck everybody and each other up to the point where there's no more space to do an actual business.

And don't get me wrong it's not the legacy of 40 years of communism, since nothing about this really changed during the past 25 years.

6 months, 1 post, in this thread, hmmm, at least he did not post it in Russian.

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It would be better if I had 11,632 or 8,613 posts?:321GFY
Funny you:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Well guys, just take it as an insider's view, I am talking about housing, energy, food on the table, these things today cost the same portion of average wage as in 1989.

Who's fault is that ? Czech, they inherited a country without a debt, they decided to fuck it all up, and now somebody else needs to own all the countries possessions for it to function.

I can't answer your question but as a foreigner living for 5 yrs in Czech Republic I know that the people are not really super excited about Russia. Maybe that has to do with the Soviet invasion from 1968 and the history.

Personally I think the annexation of Crimea is one of the moves in a power chess game between the US and Russia that is already going on for some time (Snowden, Syria, Crimea).

I don't know who has the biggest balls but its definitely not good.