Something has become more and more offensive to me lately for the Soviet Union.
I personally lived in it for 30 years and not that I was a strong admirer of the Soviet system.
But on the other hand, all the claims and curses of the “free world” against the USSR are well hammered into memory.
Even the term "free world" itself was invented only to define the USSR as an unfree world with all the consequences.
And now I am surprised to observe the formation in the "free world" of all those features and characteristics for which the echelons of propagandists gouge our country.
First of all, the lack of freedom of movement.
Indeed - what a horror when political bodies decide whether a person can cross the border.
And here we see the so-called covid restrictions, which showed the citizens of Europe that their “right to move” is not a right, but a privilege, as one European politician says.
Having practiced selection on a biological basis, Europe began selection on a racial and national basis.
And now Estonia, Latvia, Poland, etc., are canceling the right of movement for Russians, even despite the presence of a Schengen visa.
What is the USSR?
No, a purely democratic selection procedure.
And the USSR was also accused of total control over citizens: they say, when the state tells the population what to eat, wear, watch and read, this is the most damned Soviet dictatorship.
And then news comes from Switzerland: “Those who ignore the government directive when there is a shortage of gas in the country, the court can impose a prison sentence of up to three years.
Raising the temperature in the house above 19 degrees will be considered a violation, the Blick newspaper writes.
That is, the state not only decides for citizens how warm - up to a degree - their apartments should be, but also introduces a prison sentence for non-compliance.
Big Brother is resting: after all, this also legitimizes surveillance of citizens - most likely with the help of thermal imagers on patrol cars, but also knocking, denunciations and other delights.
The Soviet system, through a planned economy, brought agriculture to the handle and determined what exactly a citizen should eat.
And here we read: “The Dutch city of Haarlem is the first in the world to ban meat advertising.
Under the law, which will come into force in 2024, meat products cannot be advertised in public places.
This measure is aimed at combating the climate crisis.”
Wine is allowed, tobacco is not allowed ... and meat is not allowed.
The crazed authorities simply understand that it is difficult to take away meat from people even under the fictitious pretext of some kind of influence on the climate, then we will forbid mentioning meat in order to popularize the product.
The Germans, devoted to green ideas, simply offer to make meat unaffordable by raising it four to five times.
Then the problem will solve itself, and the meat beer country will stop eating meat, and the meat industry will die by itself.
And of course, our Western lighthouses and lights were very fond of stories about Soviet trade, which we ourselves know, and not even first-hand - we ourselves are the first-hand here.
For example, to put it more politely, Soviet trade was not a buyer's trade, but a seller's trade - "Eat what they give, and if you don't like it, I'll close the closet right now."
Therefore, citizens who escaped from the "prison of peoples" fainted at the sight of five types of sausages in the shop.
Butcher shops as a class have long been destroyed by supermarkets, and what they sell there is more like the products of Russian discount stores - both in terms of assortment and quality.
But the case of the continuation of The Lord of the Rings and Amazon brings the seller's market to a new stage.
Now it’s not “I’ll close the shop”, but “the one who doesn’t like it is that troll, racist, fascist and bastard”.
Those who disagree with the leftist agenda in cinema to the detriment of artistic quality (and now it's not only The Lord - four out of five films at the box office) viewers should be banned and thrown out of society.
Who said anything about "the customer is always right"?
So the question is: in what else was the USSR so bad, what would you not have reproduced in the free world under the most morally correct slogans?
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.