People love to go “ in the Soviet Union they picked your job for you 😭” yeah cunt that’s what we’re doin now too except they make you bark like a dog for three weeks straight first getting denied everywhere you wanna work until you end up somewhere you dont like anyway. Let’s just cut out that middle man why don’t we
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Can we not glorify Soviet Union and come up with a system that doesn't have to rely on russian nationalism and famine of Ukrainian and Kazach people?
If the Soviet Union came back I would without hesitation become a collaborationist and laser designate small businesses and single family homes in my city for Red Army artillery. Western capital and imperial hegemony is, with no exaggeration, going to make CONTINENTS unfit for human life within our lifetimes. Deeply unserious handwringing
I actually don't doubt you'd do that, actually.
Once again a westerner pretending only western people are better uniquely evil over people elsewhere.
Hope you'll get to live in a soviet union type country, I'll enjoy you not being able to leave your village bc local council doesn't want to lose work hands and won't give you your passport.
Aaah, targeting small businesses and families to be bombed and destroyed. Yeah, that's how you save the world from hegemony -- by handing it over on a silver platter to a much crueler hegemony that has zero regard for human life and would make continents unfit for human life at a much faster pace /s
It's always funny how spoiled people from countries that never had to suffer the Soviet Union long for its return while people whose families lived under the occupation of Soviet Union are fucking traumatized by it.
Here's just a list of stuff that will be the part of the Soviet Union utopia these chucklefucks want to happen:
Yes, you will have your job basically picked for you. By association, your employer will also be entitled to your family life and what you do in your spare time -- your personal life, your problems or flaws can be made public if necessary, with workers going through your dirty laundry and domestic life in the open to shame you for not being an exemplary worker.
Your employers own you. Literally. If they tell you that tomorrow you will be flying to an entirely another region to work and live there, then you will be flying to an entirely another region to work and live there -- after all, you don't want to be fired and labeled as a social parasite, do you?
Late to work? Well, unless you were dying and have a document from a doctor proving it, you'll be doing non-paid correctional labor for weeks. Also your salary gets cut for that period. That will teach you.
Oh you want to quit? That means you don't appreciate what has been done for you, which makes you a traitor and a criminal disrupting workplace productivity. You don't get to quit, you get 2-4 months of jail.
Labor code? Don't be silly, why would you need a labor code to protect your rights? Don't you trust the ruling party to make decisions for you? You dare to doubt they want the best for you? Now you and your family be paying the price for rocking the boat. You all are getting evicted from your apartment and sent to a fucking tundra. Also, we're taking your kid and putting them into one of our orphanages. We are also changing their last name and do our best to brainwash and gaslight them into hating you and not wanting to be associated with you. If you survive the cold, lack of proper medical help, and the shittiest labor conditions, your child will be lost to you forever.
Wanna go travel? The ruling party says you don't need to travel. What are you, a spy? Don't you love it there, in your homeland that provides you with everything? Probably a talk with these nice people arriving to your house in a black car will teach you a lesson in gratitude.
Think living in Soviet Union frees you of landlords? Oh you sweet summer child, you get more than a landlord. You get a custodian (upravdom) who would stick their nose into every aspect of your life. What you buy, when you come back home, your hobbies, who you're friends with. If you're having a rough period with your partner, everyone in your dwelling will know -- and the custodian will personally approach you and tell you to stop disrupting family values or else. "Or else" means that there is a denunciation with your name in it, waiting to be sent to law enforces. If it's harsh enough, you can kiss your living place goodbye -- it will be given over to a more reliable family (or family the custodian is friends with) while you will be sent far, far away. You don't have a say in it. You don't get to argue or appeal in the court. If you suddenly think you're a person and tell the custodian to mind their business, the denunciation gets sent faster than you can finish your sentence.
"Oh" you might say, "But what if I'm entirely unproblematic and the perfect citizen?". That never stopped anyone. Any fact about you, even the most harmless, can be twisted and exaggerated to make your problematic. You like foreign literature? Suspicious. Why would you consume content made by capitalists? You want to learn foreign languages? Suspicious. Might be a collaborator. You're interested in high fashion and make cute outfits that differ from the cookiecutter stuff offered in stores provided by state? You're superficial and materialistic -- probably, it would be super easy to bribe you and make you betray your rulers.
A human-made disaster happens? Well, tough titties because your government will be hushing it up until the death toll becomes hard to ignore -- and if you question it, you'll be first on the chopping block for doubting your leaders. If you and your family are the first among being hit by the said disaster, they will bury you in nameless graves and pretend you never existed.
And the cherry on top? All the hegemons you hate so much, all the rich people you want gone will be ruling you. Giving you the bare minimum to live by and telling you to be happy you get to have a job, shaming you for wanting nice things or gaslighting you into feeling bad for experiencing burnout and not being able to work efficiently, they will be living the lives of luxury.
They'll be driving around in expensive cars while as you wait years in line to be allowed to have a poorly made car from your local manufacturing. They'll be dining in luxurious restaurants while you collect bread talons. They'll be wearing prestigious clothing and traveling to all the places they want, while you can get arrested for wearing jeans.
They will be enjoying everything they denied you -- and you won't be able to do anything because you gave them that power in exchange for empty promises. There are no legal mechanisms to make them accountable (they removed those), there is no people's choice, no courts for monitoring the actions of the ruling party.
It's amazing how people screeching "Eat the rich" would happily let the rich eat them and let the reach eat countless others for the promise of free scraps.
The Soviet Union sucked so much that all its problems will never fit in one post, but here are a few more random points:
• Telephones were extremely rare. My mom grew up in a 10 story building in a medium sized city. Even in the 1990s, in that building they only had 5 telephones in the entire apartment building (with nearly 120 apartments). I was honestly surprised when I found out that telephones in ordinary households were very common in the US in 1960s
• Toilet paper didn’t exist. People used the good old Soviet newspapers (btw the printing paint has lead in it). The first package of toilet paper in the USSR was made in 1969 (after they imported some equipment from the UK). Even after that day, the toilet paper was always hard to find in stores. Meanwhile, the US started producing toilet paper in 1857
• You on a period? Take some gauze and cotton and have fun, cause there are no tampons or pads. Worldwide, pads were being produced since 1920s. In the great Soviet Union pads became available in the 1970s, but were very uncommon until the USSR fell apart
• Jeans are pretty comfortable, right? Well, you better not wear them in the Soviet Union. They were called “bourgeois fashion” (even though first jeans in the US were created for farmers and miners) and wearing them to work or school could get you in very big trouble. Plus, it was hard, expensive and semi-legal to even buy jeans. One pair of jeans could cost more than an average monthly salary.
• You bought something and you want to sell it? That’s called “speculation” and it’s a criminal offence. Congrats, you are the enemy of communism
• You are religious? Shame on you, you should pray to Stalin instead. If you’re Christian, you can’t buy a Bible; plus, you are much less likely to have a normal job if you were ever seen near a church. If you’re Jewish, you can’t go to a synagogue - unless you live in moscow or st petersburg (but even then you’ll have big problems). In the USSR Jews were considered a threat; education and job opportunities were limited. Muslims were not spared either; for example, the entire Crimean Tatar population was deported in 1944.
• Gay? Welcome to jail! You might get up to 5 years sentence for “being with a man”. Yes, Lenin briefly cancelled that- old laws of Russian Empire were being rewritten at the time, and as soon as they noticed that they accidentally allowed gay people to exist, the soviets banned it again
