Waiting in line all day for a loaf of bread.
Special stores for the Party elite that no Soviet citizen could access.
If you say anything bad against the Party, you might get a midnight visit from the KGB and never be heard from again.
Mass genocide of entire people groups.
Knowing that no matter how hard you worked, you’d never get ahead.
And, on our side...waiting to see if the madmen in power over there might one day decide to mass-launch several hundred nuclear warheads in our direction, all in the name of world domination.
Yeah, sure...I’d LOVE to go back to that.
Are they nostalgic for the Soviet Union, or are they really nostalgic for a more “simpler time”, like many of us who grew up here in the 60s do?