I feel nostalgic for the past sometimes.
I don't mean my younger years, no. That is about living in a different country. The USSR. That monster that frightened everybody around and some of its inhabitants as well. Why can we be so nostalgic for it? Especially our parents or grandparents? What was there that we cannot find now? Was there anything at all or is it a myth that has been made up by the people who don't remember the ugly face of that country but miss its warmth?
I want back so much from time to time, that it hurts...
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I feel the same. When still can remember those fantastic days of my youth - last days of USSR. I can remember a misunderstanding between everyone, fear, mass destruction and in whole a jungle law of living. Sometimes i want to return back and change my attitude to everything. In past i did a lot of mistakes, sometimes it hurts.
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics collapsed in 1991. I was born in 1990)) My parents told me that they lived a good life. They had a happy childhood and a happy student life. They played “Lapta”, that game was so popular) In my childhood we played it too..but later it changed)When I come to my grandmother I feel myself so tranquil..old clock, wallpaper, TV “Rubin”(now it doesn’t work). Do you remember Soviet songs? The Soviet music was spreading a cult of friendship, collectivism, mutual assistance and respect to the working people.
I was born after perestroika but acoording to parents words they were very happy in their time. Of course they did not have such good choice in goods and service as they have now but the atmosphere was really great.Sometimes i wish to be born in USSR.
I think that people mostly feel sorry that they don't have the safety that they had those days. My parents told me that they were sure of their future - that they would not be fired, and if they were ill, they would still be paied some money. They always had vacations. They knew that the state would give them an appartment and their children would go to the kindergarten and then to school. These are the things that we don't have now. And because of the lack of this stability people miss the USSR.
You know, my parents have never told me something like that..that they want to turn back in the USSR an so on..They really never told me how had they lived...
But I'm sure that there was a thing(or things) which makes a lot lot of people feel nostalgic.. Maybe that's a young people , the most part of whom wasn't sitting in front of the computers,but was spending their time with a bit more common sense? I don't know...
I also wasn't told, if my parents want to turn back...I hope that no. Of course, their youth differs from ours sharply. but it wasn't better or worse, just another time. sometimes, when I feel nostalgic, I recollect the words from a somg, that our memory is nor right very often. It beautify the past moments..
In fact everything I know about it, I took from different old films or tales of my relatives…
…and when I think about this time, first of all I remember long queues… day of unpaid work… the terrible subject “the history of the party”… identically-dressed people (like in the Russian film “Cтиляги”)…
A lot of times I heard from my granny about “the deficit of everything”, because of which people from the remote districts of the country had to go to Moscow to buy normal clothes in GUM or ZUM… what I don’t like at all, is that after the graduating from the university you could be easily sent somewhere to Kamchatka or Siberia for a work…
…that is why I don’t think that the soviet time was much better than the present… nowadays there is more freedom, chances, variety… But of course I may be mistaken…
I can`t remember my parents talking over the USSR..
Only some times my mame may say smth like we are spoiled(young people) and that in her chilhood every thing was for another
In some ways I think this life was really better...it was easier to live and a man was sure in a next day,the air was fresh.
And now the freedom is overflowing, is it good? I don`t know...
For example my granny like that time for that, that tere were no murders, no drugs, on streets there were more calm...i can't tell you anything....because i was born in 1990..and for 5 or 6 years i probably remember smth...but i think that if somebody brought us( i mean all teens of our age) to that time....it will be really shoked for us....after nowdays....
I was born in the USSR but of course I remember nothing about that time. But my parents often told me about that period, about long queues, “the deficit of everything” (as snowflake said), the censorship and the prohibition to travel all over the world. At the first glance the picrure is rather unattractive... But let's talk about our modern Russia. We are more free on the one hand because we have a democracy, we can do and speak what we want (in reasonable limits of course) and visit countries which we like and buy everything which we prefer. Yes it is so. But on the other hand there are a lot of goods but the prices are too high (and not coincide with the quality) and we can find the appropriate job (but probably we won't be able to find it because now there are plenty of specialists with diplomas but not so many vacances for everybody). Moreover the censorship exists nowadays and we know practically nothing about real situation in our country.
That's why I think that the USSR is not the worst variant and I am not sure that now we live better... But of course this is my own opinion and somebody can argue with me...
But I think that people of the soviet time lived in lie. The weightiest argument of our grandmothers is that there were no murderers, thieves or rapists at all! But how it could be? - I am sure, people with “damaged brains” have always existed… and I have read lots of stories about some kind of “PR-specialists” of that time, who tried to hide such “upsetting incidents” from the Russian people to make them think, that we are the best and the most cultured nation on the planet…
...Or for example all these heroic stories about the Second World War: lots of our national heroes (for instance our Panfilovzi) are known to have been simply made up….
So, I disagree with the expression, that “we know practically nothing about our country” - I am sure, that during the soviet time people were even less informed, than we are nowadays…
But sorry to ask you, Snowflake - what do you know about our country if not only what is allowed to be known? Secondly, don't you think that it has become fashionable to sling dirt at our history of the last 70-80 years? Sometimes I think that only the lazy hasn't kicked the dead lion, that was called the USSR.
yes, people have never managed to get to know about the plans of the government… But still, now it is easier to know the truth or at least to guess what is going on - because people are capable of thinking and having doubts about things - they are not under such a tight control now and there is no pressing of the ideology on their mind, which prohibits any freedom of thinking and having your own opinion!
…What about the history… What do You propose to do? - Should we just turn away from this “dead lion” and feel nostalgic for the good time?
…there is no more the USSR and lots of people search for disadvantages of the soviet time … but only because this work is so shameful, it doesn’t mean, that there were no drawbacks in that time.
Don’t think that I hate the past- I just like the advice of our English book: “When you read history, take it with a pinch of salt”
When I asked my grandparents about the life in USSR they told me it was a good time but the "iron curtain" and communism make me feel uncomfortable. I can't image the absence of opportunity to go abroad( luckily my Grandfather was a sailor so he went abroad very often and always bought something for my Mother))
In that time people used to work very hard and do their best and that is what we need now.
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