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Russia - great bunch of lads!
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It's kind of funny how people love to knock Russia.
My sister in law lived there during the Soviet Union era and ironically she was never hungry,cold or lacked nice clothes or an education. Medication was easily acquired.
Shops were always full and she seen those propaganda video's and clips from the 80's honed in on the shop fronts and writing on flicks, it wasn't even the Russian language FFS lol it was somewhere else.
Now I know people will say that those were probably satellite state's of the Union and lambast me with their knowledge of the history behind the iron curtain...
They also had access to transport and hop on a train and go anywhere, every country had their faults
Ireland wasn't exactly the bastion of the western world up until the late 80's.
A lot of us were without basic heated houses, back boiler's were only for the privelaged.
Many only had an open fire, and there was frequent electrical outages, especially in the Kerry and West Limerick area.
Tarbert could shut down at anytime not sure was it an engineering problem or the coal was arriving at the terminal late.
I lived in Edinburgh in the 90's and a lot of people didn't know that the South was safe enough from the trouble's in the north.
Friends of mine from the middle east a few Iraq'is my own age in their mid 40's thought the whole of Ireland was at war for years and was peppered with riots and petrol bombings.
Same as the Lebonese they thought similarly.
Russia is absolutely amazing, I'm going to get the trans Siberian express from Moscow down in a few years and I can't wait
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The availability of things did depend on the exact location.It's kind of funny how people love to knock Russia.
My sister in law lived there during the Soviet Union era and ironically she was never hungry,cold or lacked nice clothes or an education. Medication was easily acquired.
Shops were always full and she seen those propaganda video's and clips from the 80's honed in on the shop fronts and writing on flicks, it wasn't even the Russian language FFS lol it was somewhere else.
Now I know people will say that those were probably satellite state's of the Union and lambast me with their knowledge of the history behind the iron curtain...
They also had access to transport and hop on a train and go anywhere, every country had their faults
Ireland wasn't exactly the bastion of the western world up until the late 80's.
A lot of us were without basic heated houses, back boiler's were only for the privelaged.
Many only had an open fire, and there was frequent electrical outages, especially in the Kerry and West Limerick area.
Tarbert could shut down at anytime not sure was it an engineering problem or the coal was arriving at the terminal late.
I lived in Edinburgh in the 90's and a lot of people didn't know that the South was safe enough from the trouble's in the north.
Friends of mine from the middle east a few Iraq'is my own age in their mid 40's thought the whole of Ireland was at war for years and was peppered with riots and petrol bombings.
Same as the Lebonese they thought similarly.
Russia is absolutely amazing, I'm going to get the trans Siberian express from Moscow down in a few years and I can't wait
For example, in the capitals of all 15 republics you could pretty much get anything, especially in Moscow. They had special shops where you could buy things using foreign currency (it's just the currency itself was hard to get and illegal to exchange)
In other cities the shelves in the shops were emptier. Towns and villages - another different story.
Either way, empty shelves and queues - this was 80s, nearer the end of the USSR's existence.
Another deciding factor of who remembers what how things were in the Soviet Union times is the family background. If one had came from a family of military servants or doctors (not your average factory worker), they would have lived a nice comfortable life with access to pretty much anything because of all the connections. Kids who grew up in such families certainly wouldn't remember qs in the shops to get toilet paper because their parents never needed to queue for anything))
But overall, I agree, especially before Brezhnev's death quality of life in USSR was pretty decent, there were opportunities, many well known politicians etc came from very poor backgrounds.
And yes, if you have money and you want to travel, Russia is amazing all right. If you were to live there and work (again depends on the profession or lack of it), it's a completely different story, which is probably true for any country really.
P.S. - only 20 years ago many people in Eastern Europe had no idea about Republic of Ireland as all they saw in the news was Northern Ireland and everything that went on there. This is what the Republic was associated with indeed until very recently.0 -
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ShatterAlan wrote: »And you have proof, do you?
Scotland Yard don't even have proof of any of it and freely admit to that fact. Doesn't stop the likes of liars like BoJo and Theresa May fooling you with weasel words such as "our anonymous sources confirm that it was most likely a Russian attack"
and that is enough to con you.
Do you believe these two lads story?
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Hangdogroad wrote: »
You see?
I asked you if you had proof and you resort to nothing more than peddling propaganda.
In case it's skipped your attention it's not up to those two guys to prove their innocence it's up to you to PROVE their guilt and you can't do that.
But it doesn't matter. the damage is done and you've been suckered and that was the object of the exercise all along so it was successful. 2 years on and not a word from Skripal or his daughter. They just vanished into thin air. No interviews no nothing. We don't even know it they ever existed or if they are now dead having been bumped off because they've outlived their purpose and we can't risk having them talk and expose the truth about the case.
So it doesn't matter, you and many people like you just blindly swallowed this joke of a story and now have a very negative view of Russia in general and Putin in particular and that was the goal all along. To poison not the Skripals but to poison your opinion.0 -
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