Thread by @KramarenkoMari3

When you see people having #EU flags in #Ukraine or in #Georgia (can’t be 100% sure I am not Georgian) it’s not about praising this institution. It’s about the direction of our development. For us it’s a symbol of democracy, human rights, the rule of law. Which is
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https://twitter.com/kshoshiashvili/status/1635595830026436608

opposite to what russia and communists groomed in our societies: corruption, banditry, police lawlessness, nepotism, dictatorship, class division of people, inequality on an ethnic basis, eternal condemnation of the privacy of other people, their appearance, and so on.
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To some without experience of life in the Soviet Union, it may seem that there was no banditry, inequality, poverty, and so on, but they are wrong. Here are some examples of the “folk art”, idioms of those times: “everyone is equal, but there are some more equal than others”
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“Soviet means excellent, different from normal” (play on words excellent and different in Russian sounds the same in this case.
“I didn’t read, but I condemn”
“You work, and we will get a bonus” - about the fact that the bosses received bonuses for the work of their
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subordinates. In the same vein: “we pretend that we work, and they pretend that they pay us a salary.”

“We didn’t live richly - and no need to start to."
"We lived poorly, but honestly." "Money is not the main thing",
"In cramped conditions but not offended" - meaning
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you should not try to improve your standard of living, it is better to quietly dream of “free communism”.
More about work and other areas of life: "voluntarily-compulsorily", for example, when young scientists are sent to the collective farm to collect potatoes on the weekends.
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Bonus: if a girl dressed well, especially wore high boots, she was called a prostitute.
If person didn’t have an official working place, they were called “parasites” and it was a crime not to work.
Communal apartments,when your entire family could live in a passage room in the
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apartment with several other families, sharing kitchen and bathroom. There was no option to choose where or with who you will live, govt decides for you and it’s not your property either, it belongs to govt, if they decide you have to move, you had to move.
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