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As a person born in the USSR, I agree. Oppression and tyranny are never ok. Some people still can’t understand the basic premise of human rights. In the SovietvUnion people were doing what the state told them to do, they were like domesticated animals. [b]If they strayed and did not work[/b], for instance, they were immediately jailed for 15 days. Even being late for work had serious consequences. I remember stories about women who slept in and ran out the door in nothing but a coat to avoid tardiness.[/quote]

LOL you say this like there were no housewives in the USSR.  Enough women did not work you know.[/quote]
Did you live in the same USSR? Everyone had to work, even military wives. If there was a housewife that was the exception, perhaps, some nomenclature wife with connections. Maternity leave was about eight months and I’m not sure what it was for the rural people who lived on collective farms.
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I don't know what to tell you.  I grew up in the North Caucasus.  In my recollection, at least 25% women were homemakers.  For some ethnic groups, it was seen as unseemly for married women to work you know.[/quote]
I am not familiar with that part of Russia. Perhaps, ethnic minorities had concessions, not the core populace, which further proves my point that Russian government really loved oppressing its own people the most.[/quote]

Could it possibly be two Russians had different experiences? And that no one person really understood what life was like EVERYWHERE in Russia?[/quote]

Let the third Russian jump in.  The laws regarding work were the same throughout USSR.  It was illegal for able bodied men not to work, thus the infamous 15 days sentence.  It was not illegal for married women to be housewives.   Whether they were shamed for it and to what extent (for all practical purposes forced to go to work?) depended on local customs, whether they had children and how many, any disabled kids, an so on.[/quote]

You forgot to add the most important factor - on how much money their husbands made. Yes, in the USSR, just like anywhere else, family budgets ruled the day.[/quote]

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