i was born in the ussr and my parents grew up there. we moved here in 99 well after the collapse. my parents, by the way, hate the soviet union. they were edgy rebel kids. my mom said she got in trouble at school for not wanting to read in the lenin room. but from what they say, i cannot understand what was really so bad. especially now. my dad got a job placement immediately after he graduated from university, which was mandatory. at the end of his term they begged him to stay and offered a detached house with a plot of land as incentive, but my mom overruled it because she preferred to live in the city. the older i get, the more i question how bad it really could have been. i dont really have all that many political freedoms here anyway (you can easily get cancelled for saying the wrong thing now), the level of surveillance in the west now makes even the stasi look like amateurs. yet, i also dont really tend to rock the boat so therefore, my lack of political freedoms is actually pretty inconsequential. yet, i have real worries about my day to day life. affording rent, paying the bills, worrying about employment. these are not things most soviet people had to worry about until the turmoil of the 80s.  im sorry, i just dont get the appeal of western liberal democracy and capitalism. i dont really care if theres 100 different varieties of sausage or cheese on the shelf when i only buy the cheapest anyway. i dont care about freedoms because im not a tranny or faggot.
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