[wendy1946]

Whenever I've spoken with Russians old enough that their parents or grandparents would have lived under the tsars, I've asked them the question of which was worse, i.e. "Жизн в России была хуже под царями, или под коммунистами?" (Which was worse, life under the tsars or under the communists), and the answer has always come back the same way; that life under the tsars was so bad that it never occurred to anybody it could get worse, but that it didn't just get a little bit worse. After ten or twelve years of THAT ****, people spoke of tsarist times as the good old days.

[Rome2000]

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