Moving to a city was way more complicated than in capitalist US. You could not simply buy an apartment. You had to be allocated an apartment by the government. And you needed connections for that. Or bribes. Ideally both. If you think your local rabid Republicans do not care for little wage slave men, you never experienced USSR, it was like that but 100x worse.

[–] Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 11 months ago

If you got a new job in a different city, they gave you a new flat, at least in Romania

[–] Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Seems like you have to have strong connections through networking. Sounds familiar.

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yup. And networking would inevitably involve vodka. All major decisions would eventually involve vodka in USSR.

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

One of Stalin's failures almost any tankie won't deny.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Vodka had been linked to the Russian economy under multiple Czars. I'm not sure that Stalin could have separated the two even if he had wanted to. Admittedly it doesn't appear that he wanted to.

I'm pretty sure that the USSR was screwed the moment that Lenin returned from exile in Germany, or when Wilson was elected. Take your pick.

The Menchaviks would have been a better government.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

The mechaviks literally wanted to continue ww1 and have a psuedo democracy where the bourgeoisie were literally guaranteed a majority of seats, wtf are you talking about?

[–] juchenecromancer@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Bro got his history lessons from OverSimplified

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't aware of that. I was under the impression they were less extreme than the Bolsheviks, and didn't want to execute everyone that wasn't a hard core Bolshevik

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They were more extreme than the bolseviks, they were just on the side of capitalists so were painted with a nicer brush by capitalist historians

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Gotcha, that explains why the sources I have read, showed them as favorable to the Menchaviks

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml -2 points 11 months ago

I just find it ironic that Stalin was everything that the party worried about Trotsky becoming.