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Is that sour cream in the soup on the top right... or mashed potatoe?

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[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 42 points 9 months ago

I dated a girl from a former Eastern Bloc country and she once showed me some pics of her grandpa camping somewhere in the Carpathian's with her grandma and dad as a kid My sister was SHOCKED when she saw them cuz she didn't realize people went CAMPING IN GOMMUNIST RUZZIA!

[-] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 41 points 9 months ago

It's wild how many people straight up think that people never had fun in the Eastern Bloc

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

The media does a good job at representing Soviet Russia as a gloomy place where the laws are stricter than Saudi Arabia or the UAE. Even those countries manage to have have fun doing the same mundane things westerners do.

[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I always like to point out that the first woman in space was chosen in part because she had experience parachuting (as the space capsule at that time required you to bail out and parachute down on your own). Where did she get experience parachuting? In an "Aero Club" in Yaroslavl, which she joined while employed as a textile worker.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

In the USSR women were forced to parachute out of planes even if what they really wanted to do was work another shift in the textile plant.

yeonmi-park

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

The biggest mystery of Dyatlov Pass is how they got the required experience anyway.

Or their equipment. The equipment probably came from aliens.

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