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[quote=Anonymous]It depends what you want to learn.

The USSR of the 40s and 50s was different from USSR of 60s and 70s, and those were different of those of the 1980s.

Living in the USSR was not the same for all. The life and privilege of a political party member or a director of storage facility (a very lucrative job at its time due to constant deficits and access to goods) in Moscow, was very different from that of a farmer some even 200-300km away, was different from the experience of a Crimean Tatar in their exile in Kazakhstan, different from life in Baltic states. Living in USSR was also very different from Eastern Europe where the standards were higher and overall, life was considered much better than in USSR.

You could visit the former USSR: Baltic states, Georgia, Central Asia, Moldova. Estonia has communism is prison museum about victims of communism. There is museum of communism in Prague. I am sure there are others.

Incidentally, have you been to the https://victimsofcommunism.org/ museum here in DC? [/quote]

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