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    #31
    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Where would you get a difference place? There was no market for real estate - people waited in the queue 20-30 years to get their flat.

    More importantly women there understood the importance of being a good wife
    Don't think this is strictly true, what happened was, when you left uni you expressed a preference for where you wanted to go, and flats where allocated according to need, usually you had a choice. Obviously Moscow/Leningrad you had to get waht you were given, but in places like Sverdlovsk, Perm etc, you could have a fair choice.

    After the fall of USSR, you were given the flat you occupied, gratis.

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      #32
      Originally posted by AtW View Post
      "To" actually - it was the Soviet version of the book
      HTH
      In that case, I am happy to report that I have just finished 'The Cherry garden' by Checkov
      and 'Obstretician Zchivago'


      Russian git


      (\__/)
      (>'.'<)
      ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

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        #33
        Originally posted by AtW View Post
        "To" actually - it was the Soviet version of the book with a more appropriate ending - the baddies (fascists) died and the main hero married that girl and took her back to Soviet Union where he was from. The bells in this context symbolized happy marriage because there were no divorces in USSR.

        HTH
        For whom the bell tolls - Po kom zvonit' kolokol,

        To whom the bell tolls - Komu zvonit' kolokol...

        Second one doesn't make much sense, first one is the correct translation and the one used in Russian. I bloody knew that Russian degree would get used one day...

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          #34
          Originally posted by stek View Post
          Don't think this is strictly true, what happened was, when you left uni you expressed a preference for where you wanted to go, and flats where allocated according to need


          What you think? Dude I lived there!

          Basically after uni everyone got job - best people (based on grades or they were snitches to KGB whilst at uni) get good jobs, the rest will get tulip jobs. Good jobs would mean you might get your own room in a hostel like studenty dorms (you might need to be PhD with children to get your flat like happened with my parents), if you are tulip you might have to share same room.

          My family was in a queue to buy car (Lada) for like 15 years I think - after that inflation destroyed all savings

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            #35
            Originally posted by AtW View Post


            What you think? Dude I lived there!

            Basically after uni everyone got job - best people (based on grades or they were snitches to KGB whilst at uni) get good jobs, the rest will get tulip jobs. Good jobs would mean you might get your own room in a hostel like studenty dorms (you might need to be PhD with children to get your flat like happened with my parents), if you are tulip you might have to share same room.

            My family was in a queue to buy car (Lada) for like 15 years I think - after that inflation destroyed all savings

            My missus lot where all PhD's - must have been the elite! Think one of them got a red diploma is it? From Mgu.....

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              #36
              Originally posted by AtW View Post


              What you think? Dude I lived there!

              Basically after uni everyone got job - best people (based on grades or they were snitches to KGB whilst at uni) get good jobs, the rest will get tulip jobs. Good jobs would mean you might get your own room in a hostel like studenty dorms (you might need to be PhD with children to get your flat like happened with my parents), if you are tulip you might have to share same room.

              My family was in a queue to buy car (Lada) for like 15 years I think - after that inflation destroyed all savings
              FIL had a Zaporozhets, fukn awful it was, now he's got a Lada Sputnik, and that's a shed too but at least it starts.

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                #37
                Originally posted by AtW View Post


                What you think? Dude I lived there!
                Yeah but we all know you're not the sharpest tool in the drawer so we just ignore everything you say.
                Hard Brexit now!
                #prayfornodeal

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                  #38
                  Originally posted by stek View Post
                  My missus lot where all PhD's - must have been the elite! Think one of them got a red diploma is it? From Mgu.....
                  I had silver medal from school and a red diploma too

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                    #39
                    Originally posted by stek View Post
                    My missus lot where all PhD's - must have been the elite! Think one of them got a red diploma is it? From Mgu.....
                    Naturally.

                    That's because in Russia it's not enough for a girl to look pretty, cook well, iron, wash etc etc but also be well educated - all this combined makes up good marriage

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                      #40
                      Originally posted by AtW View Post
                      I had silver medal from school and a red diploma too
                      Babushka was in Leningrad in WW2 - a real horror story that is, during the siege, they were starving, literally. She's a Chemist, retired now obviously. At 55 too! Over 30 years in retirement!

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