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For the past few weeks, Ilya Varlamov has published posts incorporating photos from Moscow in the late 1980's - early 90's. I love these! Amazing to see how the country looked right before the collapse of the USSR. In today's post, I saw this photo from 1990. A massive queue to enter the first McDonald's in Moscow! I can't imagine such a scene, or how this fast food chain symbolized so much to people at that time. In 1990, I was 17. A senior in high school, getting ready to graduate and enter university, and closely following events overseas.

What other places, items and things did Soviet citizens associate with America before the collapse? My aunt visited Russia in the early 1980's, and she told me stories about locals asking her for bubble gum and wanting to buy her Levi's, straight off her body. This is no joke.

This is what makes Russia so fascinating to me - very rich and diverse history, constantly shifting and changing. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. Not sure how most Russians feel about the current direction in which Russia is moving...I hope you feel for the better, because it's depressing and sad to live in a place where you feel absolutely no hope or prospect for the future. I have never once felt this way about my life in America...

Date: 2014-12-02 07:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] onkel-hans.livejournal.com
This AMBIVAL is shameless.

I have a friend,a pathologist, who happens to also be a Japanese. He exhumed on a UN mission the victims of the Serbian massacres in Yugoslavia. Even he, a Japanese - and you know the Japanese psyche - was deeply shocked withe the Serbian atrocities.

The US brought peace to Yugoslavia.

Date: 2014-12-02 07:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] peacetraveler22.livejournal.com
He's entitled to his viewpoint, but we don't have to agree. :) I just find it a bit hypocritical when everyone bitches and complains about evil America, without remembering the history of their own nation. Including the present day war. I've never claimed the U.S. has bloodless hands either, people just jump to this conclusion at times. This is why I stay away from politics in this blog.

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