No one can deny that the Soviet Union was one f*ed up place when Pajitnov was living there. I guess it was even worse under Stalin, but I sure wouldn't have wanted to live there. I've been listening to lectures about the early days of the communist regime, and it's downright terrifying. I guess there's always the possibility, of course, that it wasn't so bad, it's just the anti-communist propaganda here in the U.S. that have made it seem so rotten.
I had a good friend from Russia for awhile in college, and he always said that people exaggerated how bad things were in Russia. The only thing he hated was that it took so long to get music and movies there--they were still listening to bands that had LOOONNNG gone out of style in the U.S.
No one can deny that the Soviet Union was one f*ed up place when Pajitnov was living there. I guess it was even worse under Stalin, but I sure wouldn't have wanted to live there. I've been listening to lectures about the early days of the communist regime, and it's downright terrifying. I guess there's always the possibility, of course, that it wasn't so bad, it's just the anti-communist propaganda here in the U.S. that have made it seem so rotten.
I had a good friend from Russia for awhile in college, and he always said that people exaggerated how bad things were in Russia. The only thing he hated was that it took so long to get music and movies there--they were still listening to bands that had LOOONNNG gone out of style in the U.S.
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