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<blockquote data-quote="James Snover" data-source="post: 16207633" data-attributes="member: 67454"><p>I'd love to visit there, also. I got to see Russia in 1981. The big news then was they were bogged down in Afghanistan, but still at the height of their perceived power. One look at Moscow, and even as a dumb 18 year old kid, I knew they were folding, knew they couldn't keep up the facade forever. Moscow was a giant stinking shithole, and it was their capital city. Their cops were dressed in rags, the buildings were visibly crumbling, their biggest downtown Moscow grocery store was not much more than 7-11, and people lined up for hours before it opened to make sure they got something before the shelves were bare, which didn't take long.</p><p></p><p>And everywhere there were the Zampolit, the "Political Officers." Their job was to listen to what everyone was saying, watcvh what everyone was doing, and correct them as needed back into serving the State. They were obviously the most pernicious little shit-heads you ever saw. Everywhere, somehow, under the Soviet system, shitweasles somehow ended up being put in charge of everyone else who actually did or made something.</p><p></p><p>At the end of our tour, one of the "Tour guides" came on the bus, ordered our teachers out, and said, "Now that you have had a chance to see, with your own eyes, the wonder of the workers paradise of the Soviet Union, if any of you want to defect, now is the time. Just raise your hand, we will not make a scene, we will contact you later, these things can be arranged. The Soviet Union is an open door to all who truly wish to live in freedom!" We were young and dumb, if we knew better, we wouldn't have, but we did: we laughed. Laughed our asses off. After two weeks in the Soviet Union, this was the most ridiculously absurd thing any of us had ever heard. Somehow we still were allowed to leave. But I will never forget how happy I was when that airplane lifted off from Russia.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Snover, post: 16207633, member: 67454"] I'd love to visit there, also. I got to see Russia in 1981. The big news then was they were bogged down in Afghanistan, but still at the height of their perceived power. One look at Moscow, and even as a dumb 18 year old kid, I knew they were folding, knew they couldn't keep up the facade forever. Moscow was a giant stinking shithole, and it was their capital city. Their cops were dressed in rags, the buildings were visibly crumbling, their biggest downtown Moscow grocery store was not much more than 7-11, and people lined up for hours before it opened to make sure they got something before the shelves were bare, which didn't take long. And everywhere there were the Zampolit, the "Political Officers." Their job was to listen to what everyone was saying, watcvh what everyone was doing, and correct them as needed back into serving the State. They were obviously the most pernicious little shit-heads you ever saw. Everywhere, somehow, under the Soviet system, shitweasles somehow ended up being put in charge of everyone else who actually did or made something. At the end of our tour, one of the "Tour guides" came on the bus, ordered our teachers out, and said, "Now that you have had a chance to see, with your own eyes, the wonder of the workers paradise of the Soviet Union, if any of you want to defect, now is the time. Just raise your hand, we will not make a scene, we will contact you later, these things can be arranged. The Soviet Union is an open door to all who truly wish to live in freedom!" We were young and dumb, if we knew better, we wouldn't have, but we did: we laughed. Laughed our asses off. After two weeks in the Soviet Union, this was the most ridiculously absurd thing any of us had ever heard. Somehow we still were allowed to leave. But I will never forget how happy I was when that airplane lifted off from Russia. [/QUOTE]
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