Reply to If I want to learn more about life under communism in the USSR, where should I go?

Forum Index » Travel Discussion

Reply to "If I want to learn more about life under communism in the USSR, where should I go?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]NP. I was born in the USSR, and have gone back many times in adulthood to different parts of the region (not just where I'm from).

I'm not sure there's anywhere that is going to give you the "feel" of the USSR today.

Even if we just focus on aesthetics, so much has changed in 30 years.

Communal apartments basically no longer exist, for example. The vast majority have been retrofitted to be single family apartments with their own (single) bathrooms.

There are cars everywhere now, and far fewer people relying solely on public transportation or communal transit.

You might still see the big Soviet squares, but there's also new construction in most of the big cities. So you might be able to stand in one square and only see big Soviet buildings, everything beyond has been updated.

Also, the clothes and shoes. One of the defining parts of the Soviet aesthetic was a lack of choices when it came to clothes and shoes. Only the elite were able to travel abroad, which meant that everyone else was wearing one of the very limited selection of shirts/pants/skirts. The selection of shoes was even smaller.

None of that is true anymore. Globalization, open borders, travel by even working and middle class residents, all of this means you see much more diversity of clothing now.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics