Hmm? Alex, do you want a censored internet, only pop music, and only Petrenko's humor?
My father listened to the Beatles and Pink Floyd at full volume (he put the speakers in the yard to shock the grandmothers on the bench - youthful hooliganism :rolleyes:), and no one even thought of arresting and executing him. :D Do you think that culture was worse in the USSR than it is now? All the beloved classic cartoons ("The Bremen Town Musicians," "Winnie the Pooh," "The Mystery of the Third Planet," and many others), magnificent films with the most talented actors, playing in a way that a crowd of American sex symbols (I can't even call them actors - this is a profession that they don't master) could not play, even if they were coached from morning till night - all this was born in the USSR, a country with the most "reading" population. Unfortunately, "it was."
As for pop music... many of these motifs can now be heard, re-sung. Just remember the "Old Songs About the Main Thing" series. It was enough to take these songs out of the chest, like old clothes, and brush off the mothballs - and everyone started whistling them again, paradoxically. :rolleyes:
However, Tengro is 13 years old, according to his profile, and he knows about the "horrors of the totalitarian regime" from modern sources, which are interested in showing that no matter how bad it is now, it was even worse before! I saw an article with my own eyes that told how in the 80s a schoolboy was taken to the KGB because he came to school in Nike sneakers... wow, our whole family wore imported clothes, and I can say how the authorities reacted to this: they didn't react at all. ;)
However, a return to the USSR does not threaten us. It was not only a different economic system, but also a different mentality. A girl could return home at night, fearing only one thing: stumbling in the dark. The entrances were not locked with iron doors with intercoms, but there were no syringes lying on the window sills, and there were no puddles with a distinct smell of organic matter on the stairs and landings. :( Benches and swings in the courtyards stood for decades... and now a beautiful playground for children has been built in our yard, but for some reason, "kids" who are far from kindergarten age are swinging on the swings, and good fellows with beer are sitting on the benches (with their feet on the seats)...
The golden age of culture, you see... :mad:
