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like sex with your mother, seems fun at first but you regret it later

>>25614449 A little bit scary, houses exploded. Snickers seemed like something incredibly tasty

>>25614769 Just slav things

I haven't been paid in months, but it was fun.

>>25614969 Did you live in Belarus or poccnr in the 90s?

>>25614993 In Moscow up to 5 years

sseth?

My parents haven't been paid a salary at work for several months. But it was fun. We planted potatoes, baked homemade bread. We played street games and watched cartoons on TV. We listened to music on a cassette recorder. I went to the library to get a book to read. There were many imported products from Europe. We bought Turkish clothes at the bazaar. The Dendy video game console was the greatest value that not everyone had. Родителям на работе не платили зарплату несколько месяцев. Но было весело. Мы сажали картошку, пекли домашний хлеб. Играли в уличные игры, смотрели мультики по ТВ. Слушали музыку на кассетном магнитофоне. Я ходил в библиотеку, чтобы взять почитать книжку. Было много импортных продуктов из Европы. Покупали турецкую одежду на базаре. Игровая приставка Dendy была величайшая ценность, которая была не у всех.

>>25615018 >There were many imported products from Europe. Did you ever see US or Euro aid in 90s poccnr? I mean aid in the form of food or clothes

I suppose all non-bydlo children were sheltered, never to be left outside and only staying with close family friends.

We were shooting with a slingshot. They shot mountain ash from a tube. They made darts out of matches and needles. They melted lead. We climbed buildings under construction. They baked potatoes over a campfire. They threw slate into the campfire. They smoked dried plant stalks instead of tobacco. Catching newts. We were looking for carbide and much more. Мы стреляли из рогатки. Стреляли рябиной из трубочки. Делали дротики из спичек и иголок. Плавили свинец. Лазили по строящимся зданиям. Пекли картошку на костре. Кидали шифер в костёр. Курили сухие стебли растений вместо табака. Ловили тритонов. Искали карбид и многое другое.

>>25615068 But you could buy chicken legs of "Bush's Legs" from the USA with your own money. But you could buy chicken legs of "Bush Legs" with your own money. Я лично не видел никакой гуманитарной помощи от запада. Но можно было купить куриные окорочка "Ножки Буша" за свои деньги.

>>25615068 I personally have not seen any humanitarian aid from the West. But you could buy chicken legs of "Bush Legs" with your own money.

Also my russian grandma used to make funny and very racist statements about caucasians.

And my father was robbed by azerbaijanis right in my grandfather's garage

>>25615127 >funny and very racist statements about caucasians Do you remember any?

>>25614449 I did. It was ducking miserable. Not much quality food to eat, heroin epidemic, in my town and neighborhood I knew a bunch of small kids of my age who prostituted themselves for money or for drugs, both male and female kids. Parents worked their shit off so that I and my brother could eat well and go to school. Nowadays Russia is x100 times improved, but I am still deeply traumatized by it and don't want to live there ever.

I lived in a small town and my dad was a higher ranking policeman, a respected man. So we had it easier than the rest of the people. I mean, we always had food on the table and my mom was the first in town to get a cell phone and I had a NES clone. I was born in a workers' dormitory, but couple of years later my father was given a 2-room flat in a new commieblock for his service. We didn't have a car at the time, but dad was using the service car for family business. My friends had it rougher, one of them was living in a pre-WWII wooden commieblock ("Stalin's barracks"), getting drinking water by melting snow, meat was not an everyday occurrance and a snickers bar was his birthday gift. My uncle was living off hunting and fishing. He still does though. Everything was dirty, unmaintained and downright ruined. I was too small to get involved into street gangs shit, but it was still alive back then. The premise was "rockers vs rappers" and relevant gangs would gather and beat the shit out of each other. Don't remember much more

>>25615329 What region did you grow up in?

>>25615655 Mid sized city not far from Moscow

they are still living in the 90s. they even have president from that era.

>>25615018 >>25615072 Wtf berndGTP not like this

>>25615695 I am jealous but aware that I have a romanticized on the USSR and Russia.

>>25615695 I am jealous but aware that I have a romanticized view on the USSR and Russia.

I did, but I don't remember anything before 1997. Can't say it was bad, however, I lived in a place that was detached from russian economy back then.

>>25615727 Well I still have a lot of extremely good memories from growing up in Russia. Only 90s were miserable, after 2000 things got much better very quickly. There are many things to romanticize about. Even in 90s every summer parents usually sent their children out of town to the grandparents in some tiny rural village countryside, it was comfy and fun af.

>>25615068 >US or Euro aid in 90s poccnr Poccner officials received the aid for free and sold it to ordinary people for rubbles, xDDDDD.

>>25615068 I remember that in 2001-2002 picrelated was given to everyone 2-3 times.

>>25615788 <donating vegetable oil Did they donate snow as well?

>>25615068 ive seen american (probably) chiken, we lived in north and expirienced actual shortage of food but american chiken was barely eatable, it was blue. we were eating seafood mostly

>>25615788 >Vegetable oil fortified with vitamin a and d Wont they be destroyed when cooking with it?

>>25615806 It will be, but kids in elementary school don't know such things.

>>25615814 I guess it's the thought that counts

>>25615806 d is quite temperature stable, it can withstand up to 180C, IIRC

Good, very happy. My dad made business and our family was pretty rich while everybody else was poor. Later my dad's partner stole dad's business, 90s style. Many such cases

There was no food in shops besides some grains and random crap that got stuck in there for some reason like MARGARINE or CANNED SARDINES or PERSIMMONS (I fucking HATE persimmons!). To get vegetables you had to ask relatives who had dachas or lived in the village. To get meat you needed to barter. To get sugar you needed to queue since 5AM at the shop. Oil? A luxury only used for holiday salads. Half the time there was no tea except the dry brick tea from some -stan that was utterly disgusting. Everyone had their own favorite tea substitute, some preferred Ivan-tea (local plant), some preferred Kuril tea (a different far eact plant, better but harder to procure), boomers advised everyone to brew fried birch bark. I preferred young pinecone tea, very green and piny but only avaiable a few weeks per year when pinecones only start budding and arent yet spoiled. To get fish you needed relatives from sea adjacent cities or fishermen acquaintances. There were no clothes for children of the right size so everyone wore hand-me-downs from somebody else a few sizes off. I have learned that Russia received humanitarian aid only on the internets, I dont remember anything like that ever reaching my city. Also gopnik gangs robbing you randomly on the street and suicides were nothing unusual. I dunno how people claim that there was "freedom" and "hope", my childhood was fucking horrible and I hate it. Only from 2003-2004 onwards life became sorta worth living.

>>25615721 ??

>>25615743 >I lived in a place that was detached from russian economy Like this?

>>25616180 In relation to the rest of russia in late 1990s - yes. Even moscow back then wasn't really impressive, aside some things that didn't exist on the site of former concentration camp, like McDonalds.

Does the related video give a sense of nostalgia to Russians.

>>25617257 >Santa Barbara A name I've never heard in wecct.

>>25617269 It was considered a shitty daytime TV show here in the 80s, but in Russia it was a big thing,

I remember turbo gum, chip and dale, and dad bought me a lego set from his business trip, and I put one of the legos in my nose and had to go to emergency room.

i liked it as a kid

Me I miss it