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In Reply to: Re: The Iron triangle.... posted by patrickU on June 17, 2003 at 07:35:59:
Well, the late sixties and early seventies were extremely opressive in the USSR... it was no joke, but perhaps in this area it had positive effect - less societal trash surfaced.Some of us did grow long hair - I did - but it took real courage, not like in the West. We played our guitars too, but there were severe limitations on where and what.
Getting girls to have sex was super-hard, as the communist morals were as strong as ever. Great majority of them entered their marriages virgins... I am ashamed to admit.
People would still be arrested back then for writing wrong poetry - typically sent to the mental institutions.
Not really fun times.
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Super-hard was a condition sine quanum here too, to have sex.( ah, the French ! )
The funny side was that my father loved the party and Russia, he study politics in Moscow before the last war...and remind fidel till his death.
We were lucky.They stole us things too...( Charles was VERY catholic, and censure was in the air) but that, of course doesn´t compare to your fate.
And explain your allergies to everything that come near your sentiment of freedom.
I feel the same.
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