Soviet Union period started since 1920 when Lenin came to the post of dictator. In that days, so many kazakh intelligences and scientists, writers and intellectuals were slain,nothing good was on USSR. I know very less about USSR, but by the stories of my grandparents this was very conservative, strict and boring times. Of course, they somehow liked it because this reminds them a childhood, but still in USSR they lived like in the fish aquarium – isolated from everything. Of course, they had a stable job, everything is secured, no banditism, but they didn’t have their own ideas and points of view, thats not allowed.
By stories of my grandparents, soviet times were very strict, conservative, boring but also at the same time were very secure. Everybody had the same clothes, ate the same food, had the same points of view. Of course, they had in those highlights in their life, but still most of them couldn’t get through to the top,so they lived common life. Advantage of USSR is only that nobody got unemployed.
But after disorder of Soviet Union started an inflation of money, unemployment and hunger. Started a new stream of racketeers, illegal trades and market trades. Only people who saved their money and had a new idea about how to earn money. And only from 1997 government took full control of private business, taxes, secure of society.
