Made in the USSR

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Translation of Lyrics:

The Ukraine and the Crimea, Belarus and Moldova
That is my country.
Sakhalin and Kamchatka and Ural mountains
That is my country.
Krasnoyarsk Region, Siberia and Volga Region,
Kazakhstan and the Caucasus, and the Baltic States too


Chorus:
I was born in the Soviet Union
I was made in the USSR
I was born in the Soviet Union
I was made in the USSR

The Ryuriks, the Romanovs, Lenin and Stalin
They are my country
Pushkin, Yesinin, Vystotsky, Gagarin
They are my country
The ruins of churches and the brand new temples
Red Square and building the Intercontinental Highway


Olympic gold, the races, the victories
This is my country
Zhukov, Suvorov, combines, torpedos
This is my country
The oligarchs and the beggars, the might and the ruin
The spies and the secret police and the great scientists


Glinka, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chaikovsky
Brudel, Shalyapin, Chagal, Aivazovsky
Oil and diamonds, gold and gas
The Navy, the Army, the Air Force, the Marines


Vodka, caviar, the Hermitage, the rockets
The most beautiful women on the planet
Chess, opera, the best ballet
Just tell me something that we haven't got!


Now Europe is trying to form a union
But in the past our ancestors struggled in battle
Together we won the World War II
Together we are the world's biggest nation
Dissolve the borders, there's no need of passports
Without us you're nothing, together we're friends
 

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Too bad, he'll not die in the USSR.
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nicely put, these kind of poems only serve for below,

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The Russian President himself admitted, USSR was a country that was internally very weak, with too many domestic woes and economis bottle necks.

Have to agree though Slavic girls are Hot! ;DD==ev++vil++
 

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The Russian President himself admitted, USSR was a country that was internally very weak, with too many domestic woes and economis bottle necks.
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."
 

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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."
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.
 

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Even Beatles were fascinated by the USSR!
 
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