what was it like to live in communist russia?

i really like comrade good lookin's answer! but ya i think you mean soviet union. also, i know my mom sewed all her own clothes and my dad's clothes (selection of everything at the store pretty much non-existent or just shitty...once we moved america, my mom has developed a serious shopping addiction). also mega corruption obviously, going to the hospital or going to a university was pretty much ALL about who know/connections. Not that if you had no connection, the hospital would turn you away (however they may not give you pain medicine for a painful procedure), but if you know somebody, you get a MUCH higher level of service. also when my parents and my grandparents graduated college, there was already a specific job lined up for them at a specific government institution (a career of their choice, but the place was picked for them) so they never had to deal with things like looking for a job! boy that sounds nice haha. anyways the main reason we moved is because my dad works in biochemistry research, and he never got any credit for all his work in Russia, his bosses pretty much took all the credit, and he knew his salary would never increase. hope that helps a little?

You are probably asking about the Soviet Union???????? A?

No such thing as communist Russia ever. It thing invented not literate anti-Russian media and cheap politicians. Why I am a Russian, do not know what is communist Russia? There was only the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, communism is dead. In post-USSR territory there is no communism with 1991.

Well, in the USSR, apparently they all live in posh council flats (bit of an oxymoron, there), they have a version of the NHS (National Health), They all have jobs.

- Everyone had a job

- Everyone had a house

- Free healthcare

- Free education

- Easy going lifestyle

- Government looked after its people in exchange for their work

- Secret police marched around and arrested people

- No corporations selling you bad products made in Japan

- Not a lot of consumer choice

- Wages were mostly equal

- The cars were horrible

There was not a communist Russia

There was not a Soviet Russia

so no one knows how was it to live in there.

free education and everything.

but, it was not best quality.

Alot of stuff was s****.

but each year russia get better.