Quote Originally Posted by Deborski View Post
I am familiar with that quote. And having lived in the Soviet Union, I can attest that not everything about it was wrong. It was not paradise, but it was not the evil empire Reagan said it was, either. Putin's statement echoes my sentiment.
Deb, we seem to have discussed it a lot before, but apparently I have to say it one more time - you were to the USSR during the Perestroika!; by the time you arrived there, they had already gotten rid of the evil empire status, and even Reagan confirmed back then they had; from that perspective, there were some good sides, yeah, but what if you went there in the mid-1970s? I really doubt you would like it there.