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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh and of course you should go to Berlin I think.
Germany is not engulfed in all encompassing communism hatred like the Baltics or Poland so it will give you are less biased picture [/quote]

I cannot comment on specifics, but my spouse grew up in the USSR. Fascinated about the comment regarding bias. My sense from him and his family is that since the 1970's, [b]day to day life was not bad [/b](we got some exaggeration about certain things in the states), but that the 'meta' issues were bad. They all played games like paying people off bc it was the only way to do/get things. There were times shortages were terrible, and the communists/Communist party/the socialist parties [b]killed a lot of his family, number of years earlier[/b]. This was a common story. They also could not speak freely and had real concerns about neighbors turning each other in. He has not been back bc he was so grateful to escape.
But, issues under communism in the USSR were quite real. They also varies based on location.[/quote]

I'd say a bunch of my family being killed by the government would probably make my day to day life pretty bad![/quote]

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