You guys know the real history, I'd be reading propaganda if I went on any other website
So tell me, real short, what triggered the collapse. Especially when it seemed to be doing well in the 80s.
Okay, you can get wordy if you really need to.
You guys know the real history, I'd be reading propaganda if I went on any other website
So tell me, real short, what triggered the collapse. Especially when it seemed to be doing well in the 80s.
Okay, you can get wordy if you really need to.
According to my dad: "They should have just let us watch rock stars play. We heard it on albums smuggled in, and they sounded like gods compared to our guys. Ofc we thought our system sucked and we should strive to be like them. Then, after the collapse, we found out it was all studio recordings and special instruments and shit, and when they played live it was around the same level as us. What a bitter disappointment - so they should have just let us have more freedom to experience it instead of forbidding it."
My mom, meanwhile, was getting worried about the neverending war in Afghanistan - my brother was born in '87 and she was like, fuck what if it continues on long enough that he gets conscripted in it???
Just telling you the mood of some people (maybe the majority of people) in the late 80s/early 90s. The ideological battle had been won pretty handily by the West lol. Both my parents had big moments of disillusionment in their 20s when they realised they would not build communism. For the record, my dad regrets the collapse of the USSR and my mom doesn't.
Haha boy I sure am glad that's all in the past and nothing like that is happening now
Guess it's time for the Americans to collapse their system like my mom did hers. :)
ironically alfganistan always strikes back, 2 superpowers taken down by trying to square up. that would be wild if you look at it that way
(i know it’s indirectly its just kinda surreal)
God please tell me they immigrated to the US and their son ended up enlisting to pay for college.
We emigrated to Austria and my brother went to uni for cheap and I for free. :) Why the fuck would you want my family to have contributed to the horrors of the US war machine as a gotcha lmao
Just eager to see some sweet dramatic irony because the lives of anonymous internet posters are as real to me as a story in a movie. Actually glad things worked out for you and your fam irl.