I’m interested in hearing about the personal experiences of living in the USSR without making it a political conversation. Rather, just what life was like, the good and the bad, from a nonjudgmental human perspective.

  • tunetardis@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Yeah that was my read of it. I remember actually seeing people hopping onto the train even as it was starting to move out. It took those locomotives a long time to build up any significant speed, so I don’t think anyone was freaking out about getting cut in half or anything.

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      7 months ago

      I’ve met a guy on a long-distance train once. He just jumped off at his village, with a bag on his shoulder, in the dark.

      The train could only go slow because of a sharp turn. I was terrified. He was okay.