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[Doc91678]

Haunting pictures show desperate struggle to survive in last days of USSR

1 January 2013



Hard times: Eighteen-year-old prostitute Katya scours the street for work as a police car drives past in Moscow in 1991 shortly before the collapse of the USSR

These shocking pictures may look like something out of the Great Depression - but in fact they show life in the last years of the Soviet Union, less than three decades ago.

Shop shelves were often bare, it was normal to have to join a long queue if you wanted to buy groceries and many of the people looked ground down after a century of desperate poverty.

The dismal state of the USSR's economy, during a time of rapidly improving living standards in the West, was a result of its dogmatic Communist political system, which stifled free enterprise and stopped the country moving on from its feudal past.

As these images show, by the 1980s that system was close to collapse, as Mikhail Gorbachev's liberalising reforms did little more than open the door to ever louder clamours for change - and on Boxing Day 1991, just a few years after these photos were taken, the Soviet Union was finally dissolved.

Read more:
Last pictures of life behind the iron curtain before the collapse of USSR | Mail Online

 

[JustTheFacts]

Haunting pictures show desperate struggle to survive in last days of USSR

1 January 2013



Hard times: Eighteen-year-old prostitute Katya scours the street for work as a police car drives past in Moscow in 1991 shortly before the collapse of the USSR

These shocking pictures may look like something out of the Great Depression - but in fact they show life in the last years of the Soviet Union, less than three decades ago.

Shop shelves were often bare, it was normal to have to join a long queue if you wanted to buy groceries and many of the people looked ground down after a century of desperate poverty.

The dismal state of the USSR's economy, during a time of rapidly improving living standards in the West, was a result of its dogmatic Communist political system, which stifled free enterprise and stopped the country moving on from its feudal past.

As these images show, by the 1980s that system was close to collapse, as Mikhail Gorbachev's liberalising reforms did little more than open the door to ever louder clamours for change - and on Boxing Day 1991, just a few years after these photos were taken, the Soviet Union was finally dissolved.

Read more:
Last pictures of life behind the iron curtain before the collapse of USSR | Mail Online

I'll be glad to provide a home to some of those 18 year old Russian hookers if they are indeed coming to America soon.

 

[Old Rocks]

Haunting pictures show desperate struggle to survive in last days of USSR

1 January 2013



Hard times: Eighteen-year-old prostitute Katya scours the street for work as a police car drives past in Moscow in 1991 shortly before the collapse of the USSR

These shocking pictures may look like something out of the Great Depression - but in fact they show life in the last years of the Soviet Union, less than three decades ago.

Shop shelves were often bare, it was normal to have to join a long queue if you wanted to buy groceries and many of the people looked ground down after a century of desperate poverty.

The dismal state of the USSR's economy, during a time of rapidly improving living standards in the West, was a result of its dogmatic Communist political system, which stifled free enterprise and stopped the country moving on from its feudal past.

As these images show, by the 1980s that system was close to collapse, as Mikhail Gorbachev's liberalising reforms did little more than open the door to ever louder clamours for change - and on Boxing Day 1991, just a few years after these photos were taken, the Soviet Union was finally dissolved.

Read more:
Last pictures of life behind the iron curtain before the collapse of USSR | Mail Online

If we see hunger here, we will see it because of the effects of a changing climate on agriculture. As for the poor Russian prostitute, you can, in any American city, see even worse, as younger prostitutes than that work the streets in order the get their fix of meth.

 

[BecauseIKnow]

Haunting pictures show desperate struggle to survive in last days of USSR

1 January 2013



Hard times: Eighteen-year-old prostitute Katya scours the street for work as a police car drives past in Moscow in 1991 shortly before the collapse of the USSR

These shocking pictures may look like something out of the Great Depression - but in fact they show life in the last years of the Soviet Union, less than three decades ago.

Shop shelves were often bare, it was normal to have to join a long queue if you wanted to buy groceries and many of the people looked ground down after a century of desperate poverty.

The dismal state of the USSR's economy, during a time of rapidly improving living standards in the West, was a result of its dogmatic Communist political system, which stifled free enterprise and stopped the country moving on from its feudal past.

As these images show, by the 1980s that system was close to collapse, as Mikhail Gorbachev's liberalising reforms did little more than open the door to ever louder clamours for change - and on Boxing Day 1991, just a few years after these photos were taken, the Soviet Union was finally dissolved.

Read more:
Last pictures of life behind the iron curtain before the collapse of USSR | Mail Online

I'll be glad to provide a home to some of those 18 year old Russian hookers if they are indeed coming to America soon.

 

[Capstone]

[...] Hard times: Eighteen-year-old prostitute Katya scours the street for work as a police car drives past in Moscow in 1991 shortly before the collapse of the USSR [...] These shocking pictures may look like something out of the Great Depression - [...]

Or ...they may look like something out of any number of inner-city neighborhoods (and many rural/Appalachian communities) in the good ol' USA today.

 

[Vel]

Haunting pictures show desperate struggle to survive in last days of USSR

1 January 2013



Hard times: Eighteen-year-old prostitute Katya scours the street for work as a police car drives past in Moscow in 1991 shortly before the collapse of the USSR

These shocking pictures may look like something out of the Great Depression - but in fact they show life in the last years of the Soviet Union, less than three decades ago.

Shop shelves were often bare, it was normal to have to join a long queue if you wanted to buy groceries and many of the people looked ground down after a century of desperate poverty.

The dismal state of the USSR's economy, during a time of rapidly improving living standards in the West, was a result of its dogmatic Communist political system, which stifled free enterprise and stopped the country moving on from its feudal past.

As these images show, by the 1980s that system was close to collapse, as Mikhail Gorbachev's liberalising reforms did little more than open the door to ever louder clamours for change - and on Boxing Day 1991, just a few years after these photos were taken, the Soviet Union was finally dissolved.

Read more:
Last pictures of life behind the iron curtain before the collapse of USSR | Mail Online

Here in Middle Tennessee after 4 years of Obama added to the two years of the Pelosi and Reid controlled Congress, we're seeing something that we haven't really seen much of before. Homeless people and pan-handlers are on corners all over town.

 

[Publius1787]

Haunting pictures show desperate struggle to survive in last days of USSR

1 January 2013



Hard times: Eighteen-year-old prostitute Katya scours the street for work as a police car drives past in Moscow in 1991 shortly before the collapse of the USSR

These shocking pictures may look like something out of the Great Depression - but in fact they show life in the last years of the Soviet Union, less than three decades ago.

Shop shelves were often bare, it was normal to have to join a long queue if you wanted to buy groceries and many of the people looked ground down after a century of desperate poverty.

The dismal state of the USSR's economy, during a time of rapidly improving living standards in the West, was a result of its dogmatic Communist political system, which stifled free enterprise and stopped the country moving on from its feudal past.

As these images show, by the 1980s that system was close to collapse, as Mikhail Gorbachev's liberalising reforms did little more than open the door to ever louder clamours for change - and on Boxing Day 1991, just a few years after these photos were taken, the Soviet Union was finally dissolved.

Read more:
Last pictures of life behind the iron curtain before the collapse of USSR | Mail Online

This is what liberals mean by equality. Equally poor.

Hey! The Soviet Union looks better than Detroit!

 

[Capstone]

This is what liberals mean by equality. Equally poor.

And what conservatives usually mean by 'freedom' ...is the freedom of others to live in abject poverty.

 

[Publius1787]

This is what liberals mean by equality. Equally poor.

And what conservatives usually mean by 'freedom' ...is the freedom of others to live in abject poverty.

Having travelled the world in the U.S. Marine Corps I can tell you in all honesty that there is no such thing as poverty in the United States.

 

[Publius1787]

Haunting pictures show desperate struggle to survive in last days of USSR

1 January 2013



Hard times: Eighteen-year-old prostitute Katya scours the street for work as a police car drives past in Moscow in 1991 shortly before the collapse of the USSR

These shocking pictures may look like something out of the Great Depression - but in fact they show life in the last years of the Soviet Union, less than three decades ago.

Shop shelves were often bare, it was normal to have to join a long queue if you wanted to buy groceries and many of the people looked ground down after a century of desperate poverty.

The dismal state of the USSR's economy, during a time of rapidly improving living standards in the West, was a result of its dogmatic Communist political system, which stifled free enterprise and stopped the country moving on from its feudal past.

As these images show, by the 1980s that system was close to collapse, as Mikhail Gorbachev's liberalising reforms did little more than open the door to ever louder clamours for change - and on Boxing Day 1991, just a few years after these photos were taken, the Soviet Union was finally dissolved.

Read more:
Last pictures of life behind the iron curtain before the collapse of USSR | Mail Online

I'll be glad to provide a home to some of those 18 year old Russian hookers if they are indeed coming to America soon.

I'll bet your already singing the Internationale just thinking about it.

 

[Publius1787]

[...] Hard times: Eighteen-year-old prostitute Katya scours the street for work as a police car drives past in Moscow in 1991 shortly before the collapse of the USSR [...] These shocking pictures may look like something out of the Great Depression - [...]

Or ...they may look like something out of any number of inner-city neighborhoods (and many rural/Appalachian communities) in the good ol' USA today.

I have much of my family in Appalachia. What the hell are you talking about?

 

[Capstone]

Having travelled the world in the U.S. Marine Corps I can tell you in all honesty that there is no such thing as poverty in the United States.

What isn't a relative term, Publius?

It seems many conservatives won't be happy until they've turned "poverty" into an objective term that applies just as well in America as it does in Ethiopia.

 

[Publius1787]

Haunting pictures show desperate struggle to survive in last days of USSR

1 January 2013



Hard times: Eighteen-year-old prostitute Katya scours the street for work as a police car drives past in Moscow in 1991 shortly before the collapse of the USSR

These shocking pictures may look like something out of the Great Depression - but in fact they show life in the last years of the Soviet Union, less than three decades ago.

Shop shelves were often bare, it was normal to have to join a long queue if you wanted to buy groceries and many of the people looked ground down after a century of desperate poverty.

The dismal state of the USSR's economy, during a time of rapidly improving living standards in the West, was a result of its dogmatic Communist political system, which stifled free enterprise and stopped the country moving on from its feudal past.

As these images show, by the 1980s that system was close to collapse, as Mikhail Gorbachev's liberalising reforms did little more than open the door to ever louder clamours for change - and on Boxing Day 1991, just a few years after these photos were taken, the Soviet Union was finally dissolved.

Read more:
Last pictures of life behind the iron curtain before the collapse of USSR | Mail Online

If we see hunger here, we will see it because of the effects of a changing climate on agriculture. As for the poor Russian prostitute, you can, in any American city, see even worse, as younger prostitutes than that work the streets in order the get their fix of meth.

Was there ever a time in the history of the world when the climate wasn't changing? As for the meth addicts, not my problem.

 

[Publius1787]

Having travelled the world in the U.S. Marine Corps I can tell you in all honesty that there is no such thing as poverty in the United States.

What isn't a relative term, Publius?

It seems many conservatives won't be happy until they've turned "poverty" into an objective term that applies just as well in America as it does in Ethiopia.

Lemme get this straight. You have shelter, food, healthcare, heat, air conditioner, cable tv, and transportation, but because you don't make as much as most your in poverty?

Lets dance shall we? We'll have a poverty celebration! Indeed poverty is so non existent in the US that people ridicule it.
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[Capstone]

I have much of my family in Appalachia. What the hell are you talking about?

Yeah, what the hell was I thinking...

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[Publius1787]

I have much of my family in Appalachia. What the hell are you talking about?

Yeah, what the hell was I thinking...

Click here

Yeah... if you think they're picking banjos and living in shacks your looking few and far between.

 

[Avatar4321]

Haunting pictures show desperate struggle to survive in last days of USSR

1 January 2013



Hard times: Eighteen-year-old prostitute Katya scours the street for work as a police car drives past in Moscow in 1991 shortly before the collapse of the USSR

These shocking pictures may look like something out of the Great Depression - but in fact they show life in the last years of the Soviet Union, less than three decades ago.

Shop shelves were often bare, it was normal to have to join a long queue if you wanted to buy groceries and many of the people looked ground down after a century of desperate poverty.

The dismal state of the USSR's economy, during a time of rapidly improving living standards in the West, was a result of its dogmatic Communist political system, which stifled free enterprise and stopped the country moving on from its feudal past.

As these images show, by the 1980s that system was close to collapse, as Mikhail Gorbachev's liberalising reforms did little more than open the door to ever louder clamours for change - and on Boxing Day 1991, just a few years after these photos were taken, the Soviet Union was finally dissolved.

Read more:
Last pictures of life behind the iron curtain before the collapse of USSR | Mail Online

If we see hunger here, we will see it because of the effects of a changing climate on agriculture. As for the poor Russian prostitute, you can, in any American city, see even worse, as younger prostitutes than that work the streets in order the get their fix of meth.

You realize that if the climate was actually warming, we would be able to produce more food, not less, right?

 

[Capstone]

Lemme get this straight. You have shelter, food, healthcare, heat, air conditioner, cable tv, and transportation, but because you don't make as much as most your in poverty?

Not to concede that several of those luxuries are as widespread as you apparently believe, but I suppose you won't be happy until they're not available to anyone who can't afford them.

 

[Publius1787]

Haunting pictures show desperate struggle to survive in last days of USSR

1 January 2013



Hard times: Eighteen-year-old prostitute Katya scours the street for work as a police car drives past in Moscow in 1991 shortly before the collapse of the USSR

These shocking pictures may look like something out of the Great Depression - but in fact they show life in the last years of the Soviet Union, less than three decades ago.

Shop shelves were often bare, it was normal to have to join a long queue if you wanted to buy groceries and many of the people looked ground down after a century of desperate poverty.

The dismal state of the USSR's economy, during a time of rapidly improving living standards in the West, was a result of its dogmatic Communist political system, which stifled free enterprise and stopped the country moving on from its feudal past.

As these images show, by the 1980s that system was close to collapse, as Mikhail Gorbachev's liberalising reforms did little more than open the door to ever louder clamours for change - and on Boxing Day 1991, just a few years after these photos were taken, the Soviet Union was finally dissolved.

Read more:
Last pictures of life behind the iron curtain before the collapse of USSR | Mail Online

If we see hunger here, we will see it because of the effects of a changing climate on agriculture. As for the poor Russian prostitute, you can, in any American city, see even worse, as younger prostitutes than that work the streets in order the get their fix of meth.

You realize that if the climate was actually warming, we would be able to produce more food, not less, right?

Longer growing season like California? More rainfall?

 

[Publius1787]

Lemme get this straight. You have shelter, food, healthcare, heat, air conditioner, cable tv, and transportation, but because you don't make as much as most your in poverty?

Not to concede that several of those luxuries are as widespread as you apparently believe, but I suppose you won't be happy until they're not available to anyone who can't afford them.

They can't afford them. I pay for them. There is no such thing as poverty in the U.S.