• penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Idk, as a rebellious youth, you too will listen to Pink Floyd if you know it gets you a questioning by the cops and reduces your good behaviour score at school. If you're bold enough to wear jeans and long hair you might even get labeled as a deviant.

    Let's not romanticise the USSR, while scooping the very problematic aspects of it under the rug...

    • Diddykongisapokemon [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah to say it's just the youth's fault and not a bigger problem with the Soviet government in general post-Stalin is asinine.

      • keki_ya [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Obviously the youth was shaped by the society in which they grew up, but I still don’t like the trend. I don’t think 80s teenage culture solely killed the USSR, it was Kruschev and his successive leaders.