75 – Dialogue: What was good in the USSR?
Slow Russian28 Jun 2018

75 – Dialogue: What was good in the USSR?

Text in Russian:

– Ну что, давай поговорим про жизнь в СССР. Были плюсы, были минусы. Сначала про плюсы. Что хорошего было? Если тебя попросят выделить три пункта, три плюса. Без политики, без каких-то таких вещей. Просто как человек в повседневной жизни. Три плюса.

– Ну… Мне нравилось, что тогда не было такого жесткого разделения на бедных и богатых. Все-таки жили все более менее ровно.

– Ровно бедно или нормально?

– Средний уровень. Да, была верхушка, олигархи были. Но это не было выражено так, как сейчас. Пенсионеры получают в тысячу раз меньше, чем, например, депутаты. Был какой-то плюс, потому что выделялись другим. Не одеждой, не финансовым положением, а брали чем-то другим: умом, достижениями. Это больше ценилось.

– Ладно, второй плюс.

– Ну второй плюс – это то, что государство обеспечивало в общем-то всех работой. Причем той, которой ты хотел заниматься. Три года государство тебе помогало. Была стабильность. То есть у тебя… после ВУЗа ты не переживал, куда ты пойдешь работать. У тебя всегда было место с зарплатой и с жильем. Тебе предоставляли как молодому специалисту три года. Давали жилье и зарплату. Это гарантия государственная была, сейчас этого нет.

– Что еще хорошего?

– Ощущение такое было, что страна огромная, дружная. Вот эта фраза «15 республик – 15 сестёр». И это был патриотизм, это была любовь к Родине. А про минусы мы сейчас скажем.

Translation:

– Well, let's talk about life in the USSR. There were pluses and there were minuses. First about the pluses. What was good there? If someone asks you to name 3 points, 3 pluses. Without politics, without anything like that. Just like a person in everyday life. 3 pluses.

– Well… I liked that there was no big difference between poor and rich. Everybody lived more or less equally.

– Equally poor or better?

– Something in the middle. Yes, there was a top, there were oligarchs. But it wasn't as obvious as it is now. Pensioners earn a thousand times less than, for example, deputies. There was some plus. People could stand out differently. Not with clothes, not with financial success, but with intelligence and achievements. It was valued more.

– Ok, the second plus.

– Well, the second plus is that the state provided a job for everyone. The job you wanted to have. For 3 years the state was helping. There was stability. I mean that after college you didn't worry about where to go. You always had a job with a good salary and accommodation. As a young specialist, you were provided with it for 3 years. They gave you an accommodation and a job. It was a state guarantee, now there's no such a thing.

– What else was good?

– There was a feeling that the country was huge and united. This phrase «15 republics, 15 sisters». It was patriotism, it was love to the motherland. And now we'll talk about minuses.

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