different fates

A still from the 1956 film “Different Fates.” A very revealing film in many ways. We made good films, to be sure. Even today it is not outdated...

“Our destinies are different...”
"Romance Roshchina"
Lyrics from a popular song
composer Nikita Bogoslovsky
to poems by Nikolai Dorizo

Memories and comparisons. At VO we often have sparkling discussions on the topic: “But then there was no nepotism, the state oriented citizens towards the development of high moral qualities, but now...” This is the opinion of many, written as if it were a carbon copy.

However, there are those who, without fear of any disadvantages, directly write that now it’s “...more honest!” I won’t conduct a percentage analysis of how many people comment on this or that article on this topic, because it doesn’t matter at all. But it is quite possible and necessary to remember that the fate of a country is the fate of its individual citizens. Just as one can guess from a drop of water that there must be a whole ocean somewhere, so one can also draw certain conclusions from the fate of one person. Of course, of course, all this will be quite (and even very) subjective. But, be that as it may, even if it is subjective, it is indicative.

So, today we have a story about the fate of some citizens of the USSR familiar to the author, and then of our present-day Russia.

Let's start with the fate of one woman, who, one might say, although it unfolded at some distance from me, was generally quite familiar to me. Parents: father is the head of the transport department of a fairly large plant, that is, a very necessary person in all respects. After all, everyone (and there were many of them in the USSR!) who needed a machine to translate something large turned to him. Mother is a high school teacher who prepared her graduates for entering a university.

We studied at the same school, in parallel classes, but before entering the pedagogical university, I did not even suspect its existence. And then I noticed and found out that we lived nearby, and after one of our first classes we went home together. Agree that even if your companion is not a beauty, it is still better to go home together than alone. I don’t know what she thought to herself, but she just invited me to her place for tea, and I didn’t become pretentious and immediately agreed.

And I found myself in a large three-room apartment (at that time I myself lived, albeit in a large, but still an old wooden house with amenities on the street), with a bookcase covering the entire wall, in which the entire library of adventures with a “golden frame” was displayed. publications of Detgiz. Moreover, there were many books that I had not read, and this decided the whole matter.

I began to accompany her home regularly, and just as regularly I began to borrow books from her to “read.”

It is clear that her mother drew her own conclusions from this situation, and regarded my interest in her library as interest in her daughter. It's amazing how blind some parents are, because there wasn't much to be interested in other than books. She studied somehow, and listening to her speeches at seminars was sheer agony. And this despite the fact that we had plenty of beautiful and smart girls on our course, and any of them would have been better than her. But she had everything that they didn’t have, that is, an apartment, a car and a dacha. That is, it had a complete set of everything that every average Soviet person dreamed of in the USSR.

In general, I found another girl as my wife, perhaps the most beautiful on the course, and for almost 50 years now we have been living in perfect harmony, so this choice clearly did not happen anywhere, but in heaven. Although she had no library of adventures, no car, no dacha, and her parents’ apartment was so-so...

But something else is important, namely, that according to the assignment, this very daughter of the workshop manager did not go to the village, but received a referral to one of the Penza schools, and not the worst, quite close to home. And she worked there as a teacher for exactly three years. Just like us in the village. During this time, she quarreled with everyone there and managed to ruin relations with the entire teaching staff. But it was impossible to fire her. The young specialist had to work in his field for exactly three years, no matter what!

In the fourth year, she did not wait for dismissal, but quit her job herself, and... dad got her a job at his factory... as an engineer! I don’t quite understand how a person who did not have engineering knowledge in principle could work as an engineer, but somehow he could - another one of the realities of our reality at that time. And she worked as an engineer for a long time. Until 1991 and dad’s retirement. And then she was fired, because the “teacher-engineer” was simply not needed by anyone there.

She survived the difficulties of the 90s by marrying an employee of our regional local history museum. The husband, of course, could not earn gold chervonets from such a job, but he received a salary, and that was good. And then he took it and died. Such a sad blow of fate. For some reason, fate is especially cruel to some people...

And that’s where we met again, and it seemed like after 2000, when the university started paying us salaries regularly. She began to tell me about the ups and downs of her life, and I went ahead and offered her a job at my department. By that time, my wife had already been working at a nearby department as a document specialist for a long time, and everything was fine with her. The work is not dusty, you go home early, in fact, you are the right hand of the head of the department - what else could a married woman dream of?!

I talked to our manager, and she was hired. And it soon became clear that not everything at work was as good as I said. Candidates of Sciences, associate professors, all somehow “important”, “all of themselves”, “and by the way, I also have a higher education.” I explain that your education is nothing before theirs, so don’t be surprised. And besides, someone also made a remark to her that she was only talking about her children: “But I have a son... and here is my daughter...” Meanwhile, all our associate professors have to listen to this from some “lab assistant” "was completely uninteresting.

Her work was not difficult, but responsible. Draw up a general schedule based on data from the dispatch service and issue teachers with their own personal schedules. The school year begins and... I don’t show up for three classes in a row: a lecture and a seminar. And in higher education, this is an emergency - disruption of classes by a teacher. They call from the dean's office... And our head answers, but our teacher does not have these classes.

We started checking schedules, and then it turned out that our laboratory assistant had not assigned classes to me for the whole stream and, in addition, had not checked this in the control room. I thanked you, so to speak, for the care shown on my part! It is clear that our head immediately fired her from the department, and I did not ask for her. I don't like ungrateful and irresponsible people.

And... where did our lady go? To the elevator operator course! It turned out that her higher education was not needed, and she and him, too, without her dad, turned out to be of no use to anyone. But even here I didn’t become a master of my craft. She got stuck in the elevator, and in it... was some kind of “big shot.” It is clear that she was immediately fired from the elevator operator, and she began to work as a cleaner in the Magnit store.

That is, people who were naturally endowed with abilities, and also hardworking, diligent, and efficient, gradually climbed the social ladder higher and higher. But here there were no abilities, but there was no hard work either, but there was conceit and the confidence that everyone owes me everything (a trait characteristic, by the way, for many of our citizens of the USSR era).

And it all ended the way it should have ended. Although, it is clear that time also “helped” her, few people at work today would want to have such an “employee”, even without acquaintances. With them they are only tolerated...

And by the way, I know quite a lot of examples like this. Many people suffer from inflated self-esteem, which is completely unsupported by practical actions. And it is clear that everything will be wrong for them, and everything will be bad for them, because admitting that all troubles are a consequence of their character is beyond their strength. No, it’s not for nothing that the ancient Chinese said: “Sow an action, reap a habit, sow a habit, reap a character, sow a character, reap a destiny!»

To be continued ...

Comments

[Nikolay Malyugin]

I’m generally surprised how much our writers and directors love to write and make films about nothing. Take the fate of one family, and it will already be a drama. In the USSR, the state did not set out to divide people into classes. And yet the majority lived in moderation. Those who lived richer did not fence themselves off from the rest of the world. When they found themselves in a common environment, they behaved like everyone else. Stalin’s daughter studied in Kuibyshev during the war. From a conversation with her classmates, it was clear that she behaved like everyone else. Except for the very rich, they were just wealthy people. But they didn’t fence themselves off from the common people with iron gates. I came to friends in such families. They were greeted cordially, and not with pouting lips. If you go to people with kindness, then they will greet you with kindness. Now distrust is being sown. In many ways, it is not the person who plays a role, but how much money he has in cash. This is how they are brought up from childhood.

[kalibr]

Quote: Nikolay Malyugin

In the USSR, the state did not set out to divide people into classes.

The state may not have installed it. Shared life...However, this will be the subject of the next article...

[kalibr]

Quote: Nikolay Malyugin

Stalin's daughter studied in Kuibyshev during the war

And Stalin’s son became a general and ended up drinking himself to death...

[Senior seaman]

Quote: kalibr

And Stalin's son

Joseph Visarionovich had three sons. Two relatives and one adopted.

[kalibr]

Quote: Senior Sailor

three sons

Which Vasily ...

[Aviator_]

And Stalin’s son became a general and ended up drinking himself to death...

He got drunk thanks to Khrushchev Kukuruzny’s policy regarding him. And Beria’s son Sergo, after the same pressure from Khrushchev, nevertheless became a great designer (the Comet system, etc.)

[Stas157]

I thought Shpakovsky was only offended by the USSR. But it turned out, also for one woman with whom he had known since school and then throughout his long life. That woman had an unenviable, bitter fate. But in Shpakovsky's story, I did not see regret. There was gloating and self-admiration.

[kalibr]

Quote: Stas157

That woman had an unenviable, bitter fate.

Which is her own fault, right? They tried to help her, but... as you know, only the grave can correct a hunchback. But why should I be offended by losers, I really don’t understand why you decided so. And I’m not offended by the USSR, not at all. I was fine there. But I don't like being deceived.

[Ryaruav]

and in Putin’s Russia they tell you the whole truth

[kalibr]

Quote: Ryaruav

and in Putin’s Russia they tell you the whole truth

No! Of course no. But there is a rule: if you want to know something more or less for sure, read three sources FOR, three CONS, and three neutral ones. Now I can do it. Then - no! Now I can form at least an approximate opinion, based on at least some knowledge, then there were only sensations.

[Vic Vic]

Where have you seen this - the whole truth?
And what kind of truth would you like to know? Do you want to be informed as the president or someone around him?
“The whole, whole truth,” you can only know about your neighbors from a small village, and even then it’s unlikely

[your vsr 66-67]

Quote: kalibr

Quote: Stas157

That woman had an unenviable, bitter fate.

Which is her own fault, right? They tried to help her, but... as you know, only the grave can correct a hunchback. But why should I be offended by losers, I really don’t understand why you decided so. And I’m not offended by the USSR, not at all. I was fine there. But I don't like being deceived.

I don’t understand what the author wanted to say with his story? And who deceived him? Was it bad for the Soviet Union? I will not believe! He worked at the institute, his wife too, and he felt bad? The author was a communist in Soviet times, I’m sure! Otherwise I would not have held high positions! Who now? Edrosovets? Or where is the feeder, are we there too? Without any ideology?!
Well, what about working in the USSR for people with higher education, but in blue-collar positions, I’ll say this, everyone chooses their own path!
A young therapist came to us, graduated from medical school with honors. I worked for three years and went to work as a simple track fitter. The salary is incomparable!
A young specialist arrives after the Institute of Railways, his mother occupies a high position in the management of the Eastern Railway, and he came to BAM, to the taiga! They thought he would work a little and escape from the bears and midges. No! I started a family, children, and to this day I am close to bears! There are probably grandchildren already!
Author, don’t judge all people by yourself!!!

[Blacksmith 55]

Good morning everybody . We all have different destinies. And probably everyone has met people like the woman described in their life. But in all honesty, we must admit that it was not only parents who raised their children. Besides them there was also society, the street, and..... things. The shortage of many goods gave rise to a rush, a race for shortages. And I must say, it was easier for those who occupied a high position to “get” the deficit. Not only a high position played a role here, but also a better financial condition. Although many parents “at the top” had well-educated children who did not put themselves before others. Such situations happen in any society. And although they say that in Soviet times everyone was equal, some were still more equal. And education with “things” is the most harmful in my opinion. They want to show themselves, to show that they can afford more than others. And if someone falls into such a trap, it is difficult to stop. Let's see what happens in the sequel. You can, of course, criticize Shpakovsky, but let's look around, look at ourselves in the mirror, maybe we are like that ourselves? Do not judge, for you yourself will be judged. Personally, I'll wait for the continuation.

[north 2]

First.
Since the author tells us his last name, but is afraid to tell the name of a particular person whom he is "picking apart" here, the author had and still has huge problems with ethics. What if the object of his "trial by the bones" also reads VO and, having identified the author and himself in the article, will take the legal right to also answer and defend himself with an article in VO, and maybe confirm how the author correctly parsed everything here. By the way, maybe the object of the proceedings would even have denied us that the send-off to her house for the author had only a purely purpose to get something from the bookshelf. After all, the author will not tell us here that he wanted to get something out of his skirt too ... but it turned out to be a terrible bummer ... and here you are, the object of his proceedings is already ugly ...
And how a way was found to show off a beautiful wife of his own, suggesting that the author is also handsome, although we have not heard revelations about this from the author's wife. After all, there are cases when, paraphrasing a famous song, ... no one would envy that princess when they saw the portrait of Louis.
The second one.
Yes, Soviet education had its mistakes. One of them can be considered that potential and natural-born milkmaids and tractor drivers entered universities and then, after graduating from the university, they did not give anything useful to the country, having learned a profession alien to their innateness, which cannot be said if they had graduated from a vocational school, where they would have been taught to milk cows with high quality and plow the land.
The third.
In Soviet films, I like comedies and I accepted and accept them as serious cinema, which I cannot say about such films as the film "Different Fates" mentioned by the author. acquaintances, colleagues and relatives, and in one of the characters I also recognized my own modest person ... In Soviet dramas, this is "invisible", probably because they wanted to reflect what we dream about, and not what we live.
But that's my personal opinion...

[kalibr]

Quote: north 2

What if the object of his “proceedings to the bones” also reads VO and, having identified the author and himself in the article, will accept the legal right to also respond with an article in VO and defend himself, and maybe even confirm how the author parsed everything correctly here.

Who will admit this?

[kalibr]

Quote: north 2

. No one would envy that princess if they saw Louis's portrait.

That’s how strange it is: you had enough sense to write that someone there might recognize themselves. But I didn’t have enough thought to realize that even those who are “in the know” can read this, right? Your opinion doesn't matter, I don't know you, you know me, but opinion my friends matters, and they know who looked like what. By the way, even our common photo as young people was here somehow. But because there are people like that, and there are photos, that’s why you can’t exaggerate or lie on the Internet. Keep this in mind for the future, Vidas.

[UAT]

Since the author tells us his last name, but is afraid to tell the name of a particular person whom he is "picking apart" here, the author had and still has huge problems with ethics.

. Your idea of ​​ethics is strange.

[Anatole Klim]

Quote: north 2

Potential and natural milkmaids and tractor drivers entered universities and then, after graduating from the university, they did not give anything useful to the country, having learned a profession alien to their innateness, which cannot be said if they had graduated from a vocational school, where they would have been trained to milk cows efficiently and plow the land.

I don’t understand what it means to be born milkmaids and tractor drivers, it seems that when a child is born, “milkmaid, tractor driver, writer, actor” is not written on the forehead or bottom... If you are hinting at the family where the child was born, then you with with such views in India, in the caste system, where the son of a water carrier will be a water carrier, and the daughter of a washerwoman will only be a washerwoman, although they are also struggling with this. Under Soviet power, how many great scientists, military leaders, writers, actors came from simple families, and no one was ashamed of their origin, but now the rich buy themselves pedigrees that their ancestors were princes, counts, merchants.

[bk0010]

Quote: north 2

Since the author tells us his last name but is afraid to tell us the last name of a specific person whom he is “taking apart” here, the author had and still has huge problems with ethics

On the contrary, the author would be a pig if he revealed the heroine's surname.

[Slavutich]

I explain that your education before theirs is nothing, so don't be surprised.

“You, Kashtanka, are an insect creature and nothing more. You are in opposition to a man, like a carpenter in opposition to a joiner."

[kalibr]

Quote: north 2

Yes, Soviet education had its mistakes

Well, thank God, the ice has broken!

[kalibr]

Quote: north 2

I recognized him among my acquaintances, colleagues and relatives, and in one of the characters I recognized my own modest person.

Have you ever met the characters from the film “Different Fates” in your life? Wow...

[3x3zsave]

I have only one question for the author.
Vyacheslav Olegovich, why, knowing the person well enough, her character, biography, etc., did you protect her in employment??? You have to set yourself up like that! People do not change with age, this is an axiom.

[kalibr]

Quote: 3x3zsave

I have only one question for the author.
Vyacheslav Olegovich, why, knowing the person well enough, her character, biography, etc., did you protect her in employment??? You have to set yourself up like that! People do not change with age, this is an axiom.

Anton! There is such a thing as... pity. Then it’s nice to take care of someone, isn’t it? My wife and I were lucky in this regard: she also set herself up this way... with her relatives. I also kind of knew... We, in fact, all think about people better than they really are. Even now, in my 70s, I still suffer from this. Sometimes I'm wrong, sometimes I'm not.

[Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov]

But here there were no abilities, but there was no hard work either, but there was conceit and the confidence that everyone owes me everything (a trait characteristic, by the way, for many of our citizens of the USSR era).

But then it was not very noticeable. And now this trait is even more characteristic and widespread. A whole generation has grown up of those who were raised starting with “a child is a KING” and then onwards.

[kalibr]

Quote: Ivan Ivanych Ivanov

"the child is the KING"

Yes, and that's very bad. I keep wanting to write about this, fortunately there are tons of examples, but I still don’t have enough time. And there is a wonderful book by an American Jewish woman (!) “Why don’t French children spit food!” (American means they spit!). There is a lot there that would be very useful for our mothers to read. Although... it's all about the same "hunchback" again.

[Senior seaman]

What low deceit, to read a girl’s entire library and refuse to marry!
The message of respected Vyacheslav Olegovich is clear - it was bad!
In principle, there is nothing to object to, but the question remains: has it gotten better?
I'm afraid not. Moreover, modern “district figures” often have even worse children. Or they simply don’t exist... some burned out from drugs, others crashed their cars due to drunkenness. In the 90s - 00s, parents were busy with business; there was no time to raise their offspring. But there are more than enough opportunities to make excuses after minor mistakes. So we grew up.

[ycuce234-san]

And besides, someone made a remark to her that she was only talking about her children: “But I have a son... and here is my daughter...”

Initially, education was probably chosen correctly for her, since she always, even after many years, talks about children and thinks about them. The fact that she is not interested in teams, schedules and the department does not mean anything, since this routine is of little interest to anyone. Therefore, we need to continue to try to work as a teacher outside the team - for example, as a private teacher or individual teacher, who are now in demand.

[Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov]

We started checking the schedules, and then it turned out that our laboratory assistant did not give me classes for the whole stream and, in addition, did not check it in the control room. I thanked you, so to speak, for the care shown on my part!

Should someone control it? If the work is responsible, then the control should be the same.

[Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov]

Dad got her a job at his factory... as an engineer! I don’t quite understand how a person who did not have engineering knowledge in principle could work as an engineer, but somehow he could - another one of the realities of our reality at that time. And she worked as an engineer for a long time.

Any education does not give you brains, but teaches you how to learn. I and my mechanical engineering teacher have been teaching children in circles for more than 30 years, and during all the time I have been working I have never felt the need for teaching, and technical skills come in handy more often.
The author, too, is constantly trying to develop technical designs without having the upper technical knowledge. so it’s more often not a matter of education, but of brains. Engineers also have to sharpen pencils and make coffee.

[ycuce234-san]

Quote: Ivan Ivanych Ivanov

Any education does not give you brains, but teaches you how to learn.

Let’s briefly get acquainted with the history of strength of materials (history of strength and mechanics). There are also books on constructing toys, namely non-electronic toys, not robots.

[Ross xnumx]

Vyacheslav Olegovich! I appreciated both you and the flow of criticism... It’s so simple - sit down at the computer and write a story. At least on the topic: “How I spent the summer”... There was a time when we wrote such essays at school, and it was immediately clear that if someone rested in some unusual way from the rest of the masses, they could not always write this...
Now on business:

That is, people who were naturally endowed with abilities, and also hardworking, diligent, and efficient, gradually climbed the social ladder higher and higher.

In my life I met a lot of people, but I did not see those who climbed the social ladder higher and higher due to their talent and hard work. You see, it is difficult to find a person with the talent of an organizer and leader. In our country (and in the USSR as well), talent was manifested in specific professions and, in fact, the entire people appreciated it. And, when this happens exactly like this, then mostly in our country talented people of creative professions were known. It was these people who were admired and applauded.
We learned the names of the same Sakharov, Korolev, Kalashnikov much later than their cases became famous... But we don’t know who made the same nuclear reactor for a nuclear power plant or created the engine for the Su-57...
There is a well-known feature in the social ladder:

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In the USSR, mediocre drones were not kept in high government positions for years. Today, mediocrity (non-core minister) is not uncommon. There are people in higher bodies whose activities are worthless and whose needs are excessive. Remember the toast to Georgy Ivanovich?

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Therefore, I will draw a line: not everything in a person’s life depends on talent and abilities, but the truth is that:
“If a person stands out from the general gray mass, then the grayness will not leave him alone,” is true, as is the fact that many are ready to cut off their hand if only their neighbor would have both cut off...

[Unknown]

I did not expect such an article from Mr. Shpakovsky; he touched on a very interesting topic.

However, there are those who, without fear of any disadvantages, directly write that now it’s “...more honest!”

Nepotism and cronyism, unfortunately, existed and will continue to exist, only during the Soviet era they were still used with caution, and not as brazenly as now. You don't have to go far. For example, the Sobchak family, mother and daughter, take full advantage of their close acquaintance with the first person of the state and get away with everything. The offspring of Peskov, Matvienko and other top officials of the state have repeatedly appeared in the media in connection with various scandals, including criminal ones. And with a lower rank, there’s no need to say anything. They try to place their children closer to the state feeding trough. And you yourself

I talked to our manager, and she was hired.

Why not blat? To be fair, this can be noted not only in the Russian Federation but also in the USA and EU.

She studied somehow, and listening to her speeches at seminars was sheer agony

Here we come to something interesting. Why do some people need it? higher educationAs I understand it, she studied to be a teacher. The teaching profession is honorable and necessary only if if they really teach so that he understands the subject, and does not cram without understanding the essence. The question arises: why keep such a student at a university? What is the use of it in the future? What will she teach?

but she quit her job herself, and... her dad got her a job at his factory... as an engineer!

I haven't seen many engineers, but a teacher is too much. Although...whatever happens, graduate from the Institute of Forestry, Landscape Architecture, Transport and Ecology and work in...the Russian Pension Fund. God works in mysterious ways. That’s why you need higher education, you will anyway the chief, and it doesn’t matter whether you’re fumbling around in business, or the oak is oak. And then we are surprised, “we are behind Europe and the United States in all areas, let’s not think of new technologies ourselves,” etc. So tell me, Mr. Shpakovsky, as a teacher, what do they teach in our universities? Where are the experts in their field? Spend five years studying to become a history teacher and go work as an engineer.

That is, people who were naturally endowed with abilities, and also hardworking, diligent, and efficient, gradually climbed the social ladder higher and higher.

So here we have risen, “endowed with the ability” to adapt to any circumstances, there is nowhere higher, with a higher education it is obligatory, but in the country it is getting worse and worse.

[Ross xnumx]

Quote: Unknown

So here we have risen, “endowed with the ability” to adapt to any circumstances, there is nowhere higher, with a higher education it is obligatory, but in the country it is getting worse and worse.

I won’t try to convince you otherwise, I’ll just express my original opinion.
As for studies and teachers. Of the entire course of teachers in which my son studied, today he is the only one. This is probably his calling, but it is his choice.
You touch on the topic of reasons to get an education. It is today, when image obliges, that various kinds of candidates of science appear, the topic of their dissertations being ordinary plagiarism or, for example, something no one needs: “Strategic planning for the reproduction of the mineral resource base of the region in the conditions of the formation of market relations: St. Petersburg and Leningrad. region." It is for such purposes that pseudo educational institutions like the Higher School of Economics are created, whose graduates are inserted into the country’s economy like chips in a mosaic sheet: there is a picture and from a distance one can discern “something,” but what exactly is depicted on it is not clear. This is why the Russian economy is growing at the level of statistical error.
As for connections or acquaintances, today everything is determined by devotion to the body.
It is completely understandable that Mr. Sobchak could share his views on his subordinates with his family members. Sorry, but nominating a talentless show girl with her “madhouse” as a presidential candidate can only be done as a distraction. So that unnecessary people and unpleasant problems do not arise in power.
And further. The official lists of Russian institutions have been replenished with people whose duties include duplicating the will of the “master” and creating a loyal opposition. That is why it is impossible to find a specific “responsible” person for the assigned task in the country.

The phrase: “Allow me, I’ll take it upon myself” or: “It’s difficult for you, let me…” But the phrase: “I led you, I will be responsible for everything” is just a stake in the throat.

[runway-1]

But she had everything that they didn’t have, that is, an apartment, a car and a dacha. That is, it had a complete set of everything that every average Soviet person dreamed of in the USSR.

From this cosmic-scale phrase I immediately understood who the author was. I can confidently argue that not everyone dreamed of this, incl. and among my good friends...

[ivan2022]

It’s better when the cutlets are separate and the flies are separate. The USSR is Soviet laws. What specific complaints do you have against them?

Law is dictated by laws - and the work of laws, law enforcement - by the traditions of society. Feudal traditions.

The contradiction between laws and traditions at the level of the average person is explained in a surprising way. If in other countries troubles and problems are simply caused by fools, thieves and traitors. In Russia they are solid: from “... isms...”, the Constitution of the USSR, collective farms, from the lack of unemployment. presence of prosecutors and so on and so forth........

Heh... heh..... Recently I read that our population began to get sick and weaken due to the overly developed medicine in the USSR. She was both too bad and too good at the same time. Because she did not let the old and weak die, who eat up the strong and healthy. This is also from our domestic super series.

[Aviator_]

Mother is a teacher high school, which prepared its graduates for entering a university.

Strange phrase. What, other schools in Penza didn’t prepare for this, was it some kind of special school in the city?

[Fangaro]

Thank you to the author for expressing your opinion frankly!
And a change in attitude towards everything that will be written in the future.

Sorry! You are older, probably more educated, probably more successful in external life. But writing such memoirs publicly in the first person?
Vyacheslav Olegovich! One could write “a good old friend told me about it. I just remembered...”
You are the author of many interesting articles on VO. My opinion means almost nothing, or rather, it shouldn’t mean anything.
But add in stories like this something from the history of countries, human masses, new word formations.
Where did the word "blat" come from in our Russian language? What did "by connections" mean?
Not how each individual understands it now, but the original meaning. And the time of appearance.

[Aviator_]

Where did the word "blat" come from in our Russian language? What did "by connections" mean?

I can explain. The term appeared at the beginning of the twentieth century and means “by acquaintance”, “by patronage”. There was also the term “nepotism”, it’s the same thing, but it implied a family connection. A corruption component could also well be present. The phenomenon remains, the term is outdated.

[Alexey Alekseev_5]

I danced on the bones of an unfortunate woman. I can imagine what will happen in the sequel

[Mother Theresa]

It's interesting to read the comments. Some require the author to name the heroine's surname. But when you come across stories about how one acquaintance decided to find out the story of his repressed relative, and then it turned out this!!! And no one demands to give his last name, moreover, no one asks why a simple acquaintance shared such “ugly” information about himself. What prevented him from presenting his repressed relative in a favorable light? But everyone believes this story, because this belief coincides with the reader’s inner faith, and therefore it is “true.” Comrades, if we decided to revive the USSR, then it should be another USSR, taking into account all the mistakes, if the mistakes are not corrected, then the revived USSR will exist plus or minus seventy years. The author didn’t come up with anything. The pages of magazines in the USSR were full of caricatures on the topic of cronyism, telephone law and other things. Anecdote: “The head of personnel is retiring, and a young employee has been hired in his place.
There is a transfer of affairs and positions. The old boss takes four from the safe
folders with personal files of employees and says: in the 1st folder - ZHORY, in the 2nd
- DORs, in the 3rd - ENTs and in the 4th - just make sure you don’t confuse anything.
The young employee does not understand anything and asks for clarification, the old
explains: ZHORs are the wives of responsible workers, DORs are the daughters of responsible
workers, ENT specialists are the mistresses of responsible workers, and - this is
accidentally surviving footage! There are many variations of this joke, but the essence is the same. Very often, as in ancient times, children were given jobs at the same time they entered college. And it doesn’t matter that he or she was only registered at work or appeared there occasionally. In the late USSR, there was often a practice of dead souls when only the personnel department and accounting knew about the existence of a particular employee at the enterprise. The son of Comrade Miloserdov is not the director’s invention, it is the reality of that time. True, in my opinion, Ryazanov showed in him his attitude towards the people around him. In the USSR, a job was highly valued where you didn’t have to go to work every day, but only received a salary. But the worst thing is when such offspring were quite ambitious and not complete cretins. And entire “labor dynasties” took shape.

[vadivm59]

Dad got her a job as an engineer, so what? In our plant management, a large defense plant, I saw a sign on the door “SOCIAL COMPETITION ENGINEER.” Well, why does this engineer need knowledge of mechanics and other strengths? this was during the times of the USSR. and most of all I was struck by the sign “PARTY OFFICE MANAGER”. I can imagine the range of her responsibilities!!!))). I think from the street, even a party member, could not get to this position. Only with the help of such a dad.