Just re-read ...

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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.

[EternalOptimist]

"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

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"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...

[AtW]

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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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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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.

[sasguru]

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.

[AtW]

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

[AtW]

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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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!