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8/2/2025, 9:41:32 PM
>>17891175
>stand in line for hours to buy only shoe in store
Vladimir Pozner talked about this. Right after 44:30:
https://youtu.be/pzUrJ5e3sZM
He has his views, but I got into a hole watching interviews of him, and he also remarked about going to China and not wanting to ever go back, because he had lived in a totalitarian country before and that was enough. There's something about that kind of government which is hard to imagine if you've never lived in one. He'd say, there's stuff I'm saying in this interview, if I said it on Soviet television, there would be people in the lobby waiting for me. This was a country where parents whose kid died in a plane crash would have to find some way to work around the system to learn what happened because the crash was covered up by the government like it didn't even happen and they were never told. Russians have been trying to come to terms with this part of their history. You see it in some movies:
https://youtu.be/w-2E1ZXMYgw
>>17891579
>Most people who used to live in those countries see it as that : a state which ensured its citizen a certain quality of life and stability at the expense of their freedom.
I think sometimes people not from there have a hard time accepting the reality while also the fact that most Russians accepted it (at least most of the time). They have a different history and outlook. There's a strong culture of fatalism. "War and Peace" is all about characters feeling powerless to change events during the Napoleonic wars. It's no wonder a particularly deterministic version of Marxism caught on there. But they will tend to choose security over freedom, and accept hardships with stoicism and dark humor.
>There is an anon in every historical thread about the USSR that thinks that Stalin-era communal housing in the ancient nobility's manor applied to commie blocks. Are you him by any chance ?
No. It's an interesting theory though.
>stand in line for hours to buy only shoe in store
Vladimir Pozner talked about this. Right after 44:30:
https://youtu.be/pzUrJ5e3sZM
He has his views, but I got into a hole watching interviews of him, and he also remarked about going to China and not wanting to ever go back, because he had lived in a totalitarian country before and that was enough. There's something about that kind of government which is hard to imagine if you've never lived in one. He'd say, there's stuff I'm saying in this interview, if I said it on Soviet television, there would be people in the lobby waiting for me. This was a country where parents whose kid died in a plane crash would have to find some way to work around the system to learn what happened because the crash was covered up by the government like it didn't even happen and they were never told. Russians have been trying to come to terms with this part of their history. You see it in some movies:
https://youtu.be/w-2E1ZXMYgw
>>17891579
>Most people who used to live in those countries see it as that : a state which ensured its citizen a certain quality of life and stability at the expense of their freedom.
I think sometimes people not from there have a hard time accepting the reality while also the fact that most Russians accepted it (at least most of the time). They have a different history and outlook. There's a strong culture of fatalism. "War and Peace" is all about characters feeling powerless to change events during the Napoleonic wars. It's no wonder a particularly deterministic version of Marxism caught on there. But they will tend to choose security over freedom, and accept hardships with stoicism and dark humor.
>There is an anon in every historical thread about the USSR that thinks that Stalin-era communal housing in the ancient nobility's manor applied to commie blocks. Are you him by any chance ?
No. It's an interesting theory though.
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