Whats better to live in USA or Russia. I was born in Russia and adopted to the USA.
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Now it is better than during Soviet time for the most of people: food and other products are easily available and of relatively high quality now.
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I am from Estonia and your question will be answered many different way. There are those who say: The old times were better. These are usually older people who lived in the Soviet Union and they were provided everything from the government. The fall of the Soviet Union made Russia and the rest of the former USSR made everything very different. This change made many people.. millions without homes, food, ect.. So they feel that older days were better. The new generation of Russia like Russia now because they benefited from the fall of the USSR. New career, oppurtunities, money... ect.. I would like to return home to the former USSR myself and explore my past. To my opinion I think Russia is better to live in !!
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of course, the old times were better - for those who are used to receive everything на блюдечке з голубой кайомочкой. life in the us is way better than in russia - at least because rich and famous don't drive on the sidewalks here.
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My Russian phsyical therapist said that you had free healthcare and a pension, but the government took most of your paycheck anyways, most lived in crowded tenement buildings and stores usualy had only a few things to buy like sugar, but for things like milk and meat you had to wait hours in line. This is just during his era of the Soviet Union. It was different during the 50s where it was easier to get access to goods. ofcourse this is what the average soviet citizen experienced. The elite had it better, such as stores that sold foreign commercial goods like hershey bars and fashionable clothing that only the elite could go to.
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I was just a toddler when The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics become The Russian Federation. So of course I remember little of when communism was actually the ruling power. There were many stages in the USSR's 70-year existence. The horror that is usually isolated with communism is during Joseph Stalin's rule. He was a monster. My father ( whom was born in the early fifties) told me that it wasn't as terrible as it is portrayed in the American textbooks. They have all the bad things in detail, but largely ignore or brush over the good. Such as the government made the development and advancement of science a national priority and showered top scientists with honours. They were at the cutting edge of science in fields such as mathematics and in several branches of physical science, notably theoretical nuclear physics, chemistry, and astronomy. Space exploration was also highly developed: in October 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit; in April 1961 a Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, became the first man in space. The Soviets maintained a strong space program until economic problems led to cutbacks in the 1980s. Soviet Nobel Prize winners in science won for the discovery and interpretation of the Cherenkov effect, for theories about condensed matter, particularly about liquid helium (superfluidity), for fundamental work in the area of the quantum electronics, which led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers on the basis of the maser laser principle, for the development of semiconductor heterostructures for high-speed and optoelectronics, for innovative work in the theory about superconductors, For outstanding work on the mechanism of chemical transformation includes an exhaustive analysis of the application of the chain theory to varied reactions (1934–1954) and, more significantly, to combustion processes. Which proposed a theory of degenerate branching, which led to a better understanding of the phenomena associated with the induction periods of oxidation processes. etc, etc. That's just in the field of science and technology. There was much good in the specialized broad fields of engineering, the natural sciences, the life sciences and social sciences, along with education, cinema, philosophy, broadcasting, art, music, olympics, chess, dance, sports and so much more! Like everything, the USSR had yin and yang. As for me, Russia under any name will always be my motherland. I adore her. Life is good.
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USA is based on individualism and Russia is based on brotherhoods. there are two incompatible systems. Therefore it's impossible to say which one is better. For sure - in USA you is richer. In terms of happiness - I think think Russians were happier in 70-s and 80-s then Americans. (Even though they did not feel it til they loose it).
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I was born in Moscow, Russia, when it was part of the Soviet Union and my family moved to America when I was 2 months old. I get different responses from the Russians I know. My grandmother says she misses it because she knew she was taken care of at least, after the end of communism, there was a feeling (I assume from the older community) of how are they going to survive. My father, however, feels that he made the best choice coming back to America (he had lived here for a while and met my mom before they moved to Russia to have me) My Russian best friend, who lived there until perestroika (when he was 7) always says he wishes his parents never left Russia and he thinks life would have been better. Sometimes I wonder what life would have been like really living there (I'm 1/2 Black and 1/2 Russian so I'm sure there would have been some issues) but I like the fact that I grew up in America. My grandfather was in the Russian military and he tells me stories and from what I get, it wasn't a bad life to live. My grandparents were actually pretty well off I guess there before coming to America.
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To give you a simple answer russia is currently a 2nd world country and the US is a first world country so that definatley makes a difference.Living in communism one of the most major benefits was that the government would provide you with the nessecities you needed to live while in a democracy although with freedom you can become rich but with the poor the government dosent really have to help.
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