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fire86743 @lemmygrad.ml

3w ago

Debunk the idea that "living standards in the USSR were bad"

I'm not talking like during WW2 or prior. I am talking about during the Cold War, pre-Gorbachev.

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Universal Healthcare, something no American has ever known.
- I ended up tearing my bicep tendon- it hurt like hell, but I figured it was just a bad strain. About four days after it happened, a friend noticed that my bicep looked weird, so I called up my doctor. He had me in the next day. When I got there and he saw it, he asked me why I hadn't gone to the emergency room when it happened. I told him, "I'm from the US, where you only go to the ER if you're dying or there's a bone sticking out."
  
  I really don't get my buddy who said he'd like to move to the US. Although after a short discussion he admitted it'd be a horrible place to live long-term. I think that propaganda in media a lot of us consumed since childhood romanticized this horrible country. It took me like two, three years to unlearn this bs and good associations to see the US for what it is lol...
  
  The US is a great place to live… if you’re already wealthy. Everyone else? Not so much.

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