Chris Doss writes: 
Russians lived more poorly than people in any other of
the republics or in the Eastern Bloc (except maybe
Albania?). Moscow may have been a possible exception.
It's one of the reasons why Russia junked them.
Ironically, those losses of subsidies have resulted in
the wealthiest of the republics -- like Georgia and
Moldova -- into the poorest. Russians now live better
than people anywhere else in the fSU, except maybe the
Baltics, which is why you have so much illegal
immigration from them into Russia.

There are lots of Soviet jokes depicting Castro as
sucking at Brezhnev's teat.

this part is what's generally accepted as valid in this thread.
Jim Devine


 

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