Find out if you show signs that you’re a Soviet person:
Soviet people sincerely believe it is the country’s responsibility to take care of their well-being. The country has to provide them with a job, free education and accommodation.
“Even these stockings didn’t prevent a Soviet woman from finding her man”.
Soviet people don’t like to work and think they are always underpaid. One of the favorite sayings with Soviet people sounds as following “They pretend to be paying and we pretend to be working”.
Soviet people smoke and drink a lot. Someone who doesn’t looks suspicious in the eyes of the rest. Some may find it sabotaging.
Soviet people believe that everything they see around belongs to them and they can take it home. If a Soviet person returns home without taking something from the factory he/she works at, the day went to waste.
Soviet people don’t believe in God and know nothing about the commandments. Yet they started going to church in 1991. Just in case. Who knows what if He really exists? The USSR is their paradise and the only icon in their home is Stalin’s portrait.
Soviet people hate their neighbors and believe it is unfair if a neighbor is better off. Thus the dispossession and internal exiles have been invented.
Soviet people are not interested in politics and believe nothing depends on them. It is their bosses who decide everything. But they are always happy to go to the polling station early in the morning to vote for the only one candidate on the ballot. They believe it to be the only true democracy.
Labor unions are very important for Soviet people because they distribute sanatorium vouchers. As for the rest, labor unions may completely agree with the bosses because whatever they do is right.
Soviet people love getting everything for free. That’s why they participate in lotteries and other doubtful undertakings which promise to make them millionaires. Soviet people also believe in financial pyramids.
“Vegetables & Fruits”.
Soviet people differentiate law and life. They often break laws and think it to be totally fine. That’s why bribery and wrong parking are so common.
“Hot bread rings”.
Soviet people like standing close to each other in lines. They do it so no one could squeeze in between.
Soviet people are confident that they are always short weighted or overcharged in grocery stores. But they are too lazy to count the sum by themselves and too shy to ask to use the check weighing scales.
Soviet people don’t like salespeople because they think the money they make are not well-deserved. Yet they take the side of the seller when an argument breaks out.
Soviet people prefer not to defend their dignity in ticket offices, agencies, etc. They just don’t want to make it worse and they are right.
So, can you class yourself to be a Soviet person?
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“If a Soviet person returns home without taking something from the factory he/she works at, the day went to waste.” Haha, there was a saying here (supposedly dating back to the dark 70s), which went like “He who does not steal from the state, steals from his family”. Some 5 yrs ago, I was cleaning a weekend house owned by my wife´s deceased stepfather, who used to be a plumber then. What I found in the garage were crates full of brand new fittings, taps etc. he stole from the factory, which were absoulutely useless for a household (2″ Ts etc.). They were only worth the price of scrap metal (some 300 kgs) due to their tragically low, truly “communist” quality.
In my country, where I live, this kind of mentality can be found very much. (Maybe too much.)
How true…
such a bi-polar society.
Communist mentality is to drink and smoke and be suspicious of others who don’t.
Capitalist mentality is to never take time off from work and be suspicious of those who do. Paid vacation is a trap to catch lazy people who take it and make their coworkers do double duty for a week. They must be shunned.
Entrepreneurs of the world unite!
LOL
I know that mug has beer, right, but I can’t identify any of the food. Anybody know?
Everything sounds okay to me.What’s the problem?
I think this is not about Soviets, but just about lazy people
Like those who surf the Internet while at work… like me!
Russia’s soviet people are almost a mirror image of America’s liberals.
The above undesirable elements of Soviet social life were brought to you by J. Stalin and his 25 year rule of ruin and thinly-disguised monarchy. And just when things were improving in the late 50s and early 60s Leo Brezhnev and his sycophants brought neo-stalinism and stagnation to trample people’s hopes.
This is the portrait of Leo Brezhnev, who reversed back all the Stalin’s regime achievements. Stalin had never worn any insignia, had never acquired any values for himself, but for the Soviet people. Brezhnev’s descendants have a great possessions overseas unlike the Stalin’s ones.
A lot of that in here (Méx)
But in Méx all the people is dumb-crazy religious pricks
What a horrible society this describes. I grew up during the Cold War and was told much about life behind the Iron Curtain, but this intimate look at the daily grind these poor people had to endure is just awful. It’s even worse to think that there are many in the West still who would take us to such paradise with their socialist/green ideology.
Now who has not stolen from their work before?I am sure that everyone here has taken a roll or 2 of toilet paper from the bathroom!
Well, I certainly don’t believe in laws and politics and do believe in stealing whatever I can get away with.
That said, I’m not sure if this is typical of Soviet people at every period in time. The last two decades tainted a lot. The two decades after that were even worse for those whose hearts and minds were still Soviet; you either stuck to your guns and starved in a metro somewhere because you couldn’t stomach the thought of using your economics degree for selfish gain (true story as far as I could tell, though it didn’t happen to me) or you became the worst of both worlds, mostly.
So true. There are so many people so similar to described ones in my country Lithuania.
My wife grew up in the USSR and has said the exact same things to me…..almost verbatim.