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Anonymous
Anyone here get to visit the Soviet Union prior to its collapse?
>> Anonymous
My parents and grandparents were there on many occasions, why?
>> Anonymous
I'll just go when it reforms
>> Anonymous
>>29496

What were their impressions of the place?
>> Anonymous !AisexUBX5Q
i actually was born and lived there up until it broke down, then got an invitation from my grandma to come to the states...
>> Anonymous
>>29500
I'm sorry, I never asked them about their impressions, they just randomly told interesting anecdotes. Since they were scientists they mostly met with other scientists and usually at the most expensive places. So their perspective would be kind of skewed. They described the Russian as very, hospitable and friendly people however even the intellectuals seemed kind of "peasant-y" to them in their behavior and opinions.
>> Ascendent Gerbil
would you like to play a game of Global Thermonuclear War?
>> Anonymous
>>29536
Fuck that Bitch!

its Tic-Tac-Toe Time
>> Anonymous
moved to the US from (the former) Czechoslovakia. Don't remember much since we left when I was four except it being a fairly bleak early chilhood.
>> Anonymous
>>29545
Czechoslovakia wasn't part of the Soviet Union though, they were just a Soviet puppet state.
>> Anonymous
My father visited there several times in the 70s. Both the country side of what is today Russia and the city of Moscow... From his account it was a overall a poor state, but not nearly third world. People were not unfriendly, but it was very certain that the government was doing their best to keep out advertising and media from outside. Even so, he met people who had seen episodes of American and euro soap operas, heard our pop music, ect.
>> Anonymous
>>29557
Yes they were. As part of the Warsaw pact it was called Czechoslovakia SSR so that means it was part of the Soviet commonwealth.
>> Anonymous
>>29572
Uh, no.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union
Scroll down to republics, Czechoslovakia isn't listed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia
As you can see, it was a self-standing republic throughout the Cold War and was never part of the USSR. Being named the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic doesn't make it a part of the USSR.
>> Anonymous
>>29572
Bitches don't know 'bout my satellite states
>> Anonymous
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>>29576

It might as well have been