Remembrances of the USSR

[Daniel]

Link to video

I've always enjoyed hearing older people talk about life back in the day.

I would no more be a communist myself than I would be a fascist. Russia was repressive under the monarchy. Then of course after the revolution came Stalin. I don't see how that's much of a choice.

I've always been interested in Russia though and enjoyed this clip.

[wtg]

Not the stories I heard from my Lithuanian relatives when the country was part of the USSR post-WWII and up to 1991. Not by a long shot.

Your hair would stand on end if I shared what happened to my family during the Red Army's occupation of Lithuania during WWII.

[Mik]

It's an interesting country historically and socially. I followed it closely during the cold war and after. Not so much since Putin started taking it backwards.

[Big_Al]

One of my wife's grandmothers left what she called White Russia in the early years of the 20th century. From the descriptions of the poverty and pogroms in the region she left, I don't think the good old days existed for people like her. The flow of immigrants out of eastern and southern Europe wasn't a flight from a workers' paradise.

Big Al

[Piano*Dad]

Why my family left Kyiv in the early 20th century ...

[pique]

PD, your family and mine were under the same circumstances, same time and place.