@Magnus689
Soviet Student: "Asks simple economy question." Soviet Teacher: "Are you questioning the Soviet Union?"
@cowboybeboop9420
Bro escaped "1984" and ended up in "Brave new world".
@goon8o1
"Why did your family leave Soviet Union??" "Lunch and shoe prices in America."
@sombdywakehicks
All my life I've been labeled as a "troublemaker" because in school and in my jobs as an adult, I asked a lot of questions. I ask a lot of questions when things don't make sense about procedures, policies, pay scales, etc. I ask questions because I need things to make sense to me. I think I'm on the spectrum but isn't everybody? Anyway that's how I know somebody is lying to me or talking out of their a**. When you ask a question and they get upset about it that's a red flag. That's in relationships, that's in careers, that's in politics. It's in life. If somebody gets offended because you need to understand something and they redirect, get offended or angry, something is very wrong. And it still happens to me every day. Ask questions people. Get the answers. If you don't think that the person giving you the answers is correct or they're lying. Find out the answer yourself. And if you know for a fact that that person is wrong despite their misplaced convictions in their correctness. Call them out. Little sidebar, I worked as a technical consultant for a company providing over the phone automotive diagnostic support for mechanics all across the country. And I can tell you that doing that job for a few years I learned that most technicians and mechanics don't know what the hell they're talking about. At least the ones I talk to didn't know the business end of their multimeter. And I was never very assertive or confrontational. But it got to the point when I couldn't listen to any of the ridiculous nonsense coming from their mouths anymore. Because I would try to explain things in multiple ways until I was hoping it would sink in but for whatever reason a lot of this world is unwilling to learn something new or admit that they don't know what they're talking about. And a generation or two from now everybody's going to be clueless and AI is going to have to give us all the answers because there's going to be nobody around that actually knows anything. When somebody is trying to teach you something and You ask them a question they're supposed to try to explain it in a way that you can understand it. And if they get upset with you for interrupting them or get frustrated because they don't have the time to explain it to you You shouldn't be learning from them
@Bonechip007
Mike the type of guy to grow up in the same decade as his parents.
@ИбрахимАмиров-н7ю
In the Soviet Union, apartments were distributed for working experience. My mother (she was not married at that time) was promised an apartment in Moscow by communist party, but she refused in favor of her pregnant colleague After 5 years, the Soviet Union collapsed. And when switching to a different type of economy, all workers in factories were entitled to percentage of production. Most people were uneducated and sold their shares to scammers for a box of vodka(for men) or gold jewelry set(for women)
@sahelanthropus4991
The "you are asking a very dangerous question" was all the rage in the soviet bloc. Elders always talk about it
@PurposePods
Did you know in America, a visit to a hospital costs as much your entire life savings? Lena: "Is that because the hospital is expensive, or because your life is cheap" Both, Lena. Both.
@romanianspy4277
Its even more dangerous when no one warns you
@eriktruchinskas3747
My family came from lithuania. After the fall of the soviet union my grandpa recrived letters between family that stayed there. My famiily were farmers who owned land and had workers, this class of farm owners were called "Kulaks" and when the Soviet union took over they started a process called "de-kulakization" where they took everyones land, animals, everything and gave it back "to the people" and you dont dare complain for fear of going to the gulag or worse. In the letters these once wealthy people would write about how lucky they were to keep one cow and be allowed to work the land that they once owned
@SD-ko4tz
I was in moscow in the 80’s. I bought a cello. It was as expensive as eggs
@COMCOM755
Unlike the USSR, which did not have inflation, in the U.S for example, both shoes and food go up in price all the time, so really both are expensive, shoes maybe a little less expensive. In those days stuff was cheaper but now stuff is getting much more expensive, like eggs.
@davidbrittain1515
You know this guy digs and digs just to ask them great questions like that.
@stanleyreznikov4325
My grandpa was denied to finish his engineering degree because he said he was a christian one time
@Jid141
The Soviet Union in this time period was also undergoing free market reforms or “Shock therapy” Which is the rapid privatization of industry and this is ultimately what created the oligarch class. This also lead to extreme inflation due to the oligarchs ability to now price gouge for food, power, healthcare, etc… no one is defending stalins track record when it comes to political dissent but at the same time the amount of death/pain he inflicted is extremely over exaggerated. The fact of the matter is that the Soviet planned economy worked and it was the free market reforms that ultimately lead to its collapse.
@JL93601
And the biggest ‘didn’t happen’ of the year award for 2025 so far!
@_S.T.A.L.K.E.R._
The answer is that lunch is expensive, in the USSR lunch was cheap sometime free and provided by the place you worked
@fg2anubite
One thing i learned in my years is that no one ever says nice things about the places they leave. Everyones reality is different. I bet this guy identify as american even though his ethnicity is russian.
@bobsands3557
yeah that happened bro
@RurikIX