(05-01-2019 04:35 PM)Rocha Wrote: (05-01-2019 02:03 PM)Oberrheiner Wrote: (04-29-2019 08:20 PM)Rocha Wrote: (04-29-2019 07:11 PM)911 Wrote: You have to understand the nature of the current Russian/Ukrainian societies, nearly half the people were purged by the vengeful, tribal Bolsheviks over the last 102 years. This included nearly all their aristocrats, most of the upper and upper middle classes and most pious Christians.
Not only did they cull the best of them, but they also further degraded the social fiber of those left over through full-blown communism and moral degeneracy. What you have today is a shadow of that former society, that is one of the main reasons that cultures like the Ukraine's are still highly vulnerable to the ongoing neoliberal rape that has prevailed in the last 3 decades.
I see this repeated over and over again in this forum, and I still have yet to know from where comes this idea of "moral degeneracy" in the Soviet Union, when for most of it's history the nuclear family was valued and enforced, even in the hard core bolshevik days after the October revolution.
The degeneracy came after the Perestroika, and mainly after the fall of the USSR.
Go talk to people who were sent to the gulag if you can still find some, ask them for what reason and how the society was back in those days.
You might understand then.
I was expecting that you could explain how was society back in those days.
In Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn describes how there were high quotas for forced labor camps and how people would be sent off on the slightest pretext (like not clapping enough at the propaganda meetings) or rat out their neighbors to avoid being shipped off themselves (they would also do it if they liked their apartment and wanted to take it over).
After a few decades of that shit you're only left with those who did whatever it takes to survive. This is the moral degeneracy 911 is talking about.
The captors and members of the Party who tortured and sent their comrades to the gulag where they starved and were worked to death are pretty bad too.
Neither of these groups viewed themselves as evil and they had nuclear families. Solzhenitsyn describes how veks (the prisoners) would get engaged to whoever they could, often sight unseen via forbidden secret messages in the camps.
Their progeny make up the current population of Ukraine/Russia. Those who couldn't overcome their moral hangups are buried in unmarked graves around the Siberian gulags and their family lines are extinct.
When a Russian lizard almost effortlessly gets some dude to take her shopping in Mayfair or Dubai it's because those skills have been inculcated and socially refined over the better part of a century.