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:emot112:Too bad, he'll not die in the USSR.
There are many people who would argue with that, though I will not, since I have never been to the USSR and all my knowledge of life there is limited to research and second-hand accounts.The Russian President himself admitted, USSR was a country that was internally very weak, with too many domestic woes and economis bottle necks.
I lived 12 years behind the Iron Curtain, 10 years of that in the CCCP including 25 in Russia proper. I was like 12 during the collapse. Until the 90s, life wasn't hard. You were guaranteed a job with universal benefits. My father was mid-manager of a munitions factory which provided a dacha outside the capital and a flat downtown. We had a car and a truck, teles, white appliances and plenty of food. It wasn't until the price of oil went down and the bad grain harvests that life became hard for most people, life didn't become hard for us until my father died and I had to go into the Army. The fundamentals of the economy would have been balanced if so much of GDP wasn't spent on the military and so reliant on oil and harvests. If we did a move like China, CCCP would still exist today.There are many people who would argue with that, though I will not, since I have never been to the USSR and all my knowledge of life there is limited to research and second-hand accounts.
Instead, I will repeat what a Russian friend of mine once told me: "In the Soviet times, everyone had money, but we didn't have much choice on what to buy. Now, there is a lot that we can buy,
but no one has the money to buy it."