Wait! What? I was told for decades that the Russians had to wait for hours in long lines just to get food (like I did at the Safeway in SF) but now they blithely changed the story, saying, well, before there were lines only for scarce or rare items, but now it's for everything. WTF?
Was that when I started realizing that the "news" was bs propaganda? Yeah, probably.
Anyway, we were also told that the Soviets did not work and did not produce anything. "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us" is what our "news" media told us was the Soviet motto.
We were also told that they were out to get us and would probably bomb us at any time, in which case we were to hide under our desks.
And now we are seeing the war in Ukraine, in which it turns out that the infrastructure is really difficult to destroy, because it was "built in Soviet times", so it is well built and designed to withstand nuclear bombs. The dams, the subway system, the electrical grid, the railroad system, the factories, the water supply...all of it built in Soviet times. So what did the Ukrainians build after they became ''free"? Apparently, biowarfare research facilities and surrogacy centers.
And it was difficult for the Russians to get the Azoz notsees out of the steel plant because it was built in Soviet times so they an actual bomb shelter under the plant, to protect the workers.
Why didn't they just have desks at street level? That's what we had. It's almost as if both the Americans and the Soviets understood very well just which side was more likely to actually attack.
Anyway, they lied for decades and now they casually change the story. Why would anyone believe them about anything?
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