It’s good where we are not. This thesis is the best suited for comparisons of eras, countries and settlements. Especially when it comes to the place and time in which a person has never been. But it so happened that now in modern Russia there lives a generation born and raised in the USSR. And so the debate about which country lived better does not subside.
In modern Russia, the majority of the population knows firsthand how they lived in the USSR. It would seem that under such circumstances there is nothing easier than comparing living conditions in the Russian Federation and the former Union. Interview older people, and the answer will be ready. However, experts consider this method to be extremely subjective.
Age factor
Unfortunately, a person ages with age. In this case, not only his body, but also the psyche changes. Older people tend to be conservative. And they tend to idealize their past. After all, the most valuable thing in their life was connected with the USSR. Their childhood with a popsicle of 10 k. Their youth with the first innocent kiss and a sip of port for a ruble two. And their youth with the birth of their first child in anticipation of a free apartment and other socialist goods.
There were, of course, big problems. Many Soviet children had almost no idea about chocolates, marmalade and marshmallows. And generally did not know about the existence of bananas and oranges. Boys and girls have been saving money for imported jeans for years to buy them for crazy money from speculators. And the line for the promised free housing sometimes lasted decades. But now all this has remained far in the past and has given way to a completely different, sometimes frightening new one.
