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The Walking Dad posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcCKXVkGCGM Both links are to the same video, the Uzbekistani cartoon.
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Based on a 1950 short story by ray bradbury http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_%28short_story%29
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It's also worth mentioning how small and isolated the warsaw pact economies were from the rest of the world. Just in term of population and economic power, west and east were always playing in totally different leagues. It has always been about the guns. Even modern Russia, a poverty stricken country of only ~145 million people, can still push everyone around with its nuclear arsenal today. Also, there were definitely great hopes for computerization. I know some people from the Soviet Union who were involved in tests of individual computer terminals for factory workers. Each worker was supposed to log their personal production and use of materials individually and there was a chain of custody for everything involved. But I'm pretty sure it would've taken a good factory manager a week or so to learn how to game this system just as easily as the old one. And even if all these dreams of a completely computerized and an efficient planned economy would have come true, the western economies would have benefited just as much from this technology(see modern e-commerce), keeping the gap between the two wide open.
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Communist Zombie posted:Both links are to the same video, the Uzbekistani cartoon. My bad here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3gwyHNo7MI
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Frostwerks posted:What a progressive people. Well the Huns liked to fight naked, so it's not really progressive so much as being in touch with their historical roots. 
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What did the regular Yuri Sixpackimov think about Prague Spring, Hungarian revolution and the Afghan war?
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Was it common for immigrants/refugees from the Soviet Union to still tow the party line even after fleeing? Back in the 80s and 90s my father was the manager of a photo lab (this was back in the days before one hour photo in every grocery store, drug store and box store was a thing) that was owned by a Jewish family. In '89 or '90 Their Synagogue sponsored a family that had received political/religious asylum to move to the US and one of the sons had experience working in a Soviet camera factory so they offered him a job working in the lab. My father recalls that for the first six months or so he was still incredibly defensive about the Soviet Union and was constantly bad-mouthing the west, capitalism, etc, which seems kind of odd if you were fleeing religious/ideological persecution - although I guess it's possible since he was in his late teens he may not have wanted to leave.
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Fish of hemp posted:What did the regular Yuri Sixpackimov think about Prague Spring, Hungarian revolution and the Afghan war? Afghan war - roughly the same as Americans thought of Vietnam war. Sending conscript armies to fight guerilla war in Afghanistan didn't go over so well.
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