Are you telling me Soviet history is well documented and if you want to make it really easy there's probably over 100 million former Soviet citizens you can talk to?
Can't be. I was assured that the Soviet Union made reading maps illegal* so no one could figure out how to leave, and that after the government was gone no one knew how to find their way home and just got lost in the woods, presumably with all their books and records which they probably thought were maps, the poor bastards.
* They definitely, 100% didn't consider Orienteering a major sport with competitions, and people definitely weren't taught navigation and survival skills as part of mandatory civic defense education aimed at preparing the population to better survive another invasion or, even worse, a possible nuclear attack by the US!
I saw that when it was posted lol. I was referencing a post from the old sub where someone found some weirdo chud claiming that his Soviet grandfather told him the USSR forbid people from learning how to read maps so they couldn't leave, when in actuality reading maps and navigating terrain was literally a big competitive sport in the Soviet Union and literally everyone was required to learn navigation among other survival skills as part of their civic defense preparedness education.
Are you telling me Soviet history is well documented and if you want to make it really easy there's probably over 100 million former Soviet citizens you can talk to?
Can't be. I was assured that the Soviet Union made reading maps illegal* so no one could figure out how to leave, and that after the government was gone no one knew how to find their way home and just got lost in the woods, presumably with all their books and records which they probably thought were maps, the poor bastards.
* They definitely, 100% didn't consider Orienteering a major sport with competitions, and people definitely weren't taught navigation and survival skills as part of mandatory civic defense education aimed at preparing the population to better survive another invasion or, even worse, a possible nuclear attack by the US!
https://hexbear.net/post/99598
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I saw that when it was posted lol. I was referencing a post from the old sub where someone found some weirdo chud claiming that his Soviet grandfather told him the USSR forbid people from learning how to read maps so they couldn't leave, when in actuality reading maps and navigating terrain was literally a big competitive sport in the Soviet Union and literally everyone was required to learn navigation among other survival skills as part of their civic defense preparedness education.
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https://hexbear.net/post/99694