In the popular imagination, the Soviet era is often characterized as a period of deprivation and scarcity, in contrast to the mass consumer abundance offered by the United States and the West.
Even more fundamentally, the whole metric of what defines good life and happiness is arbitrary based on the values of a particular culture, but it’s being applied as some universal value.
Even more fundamentally, the whole metric of what defines good life and happiness is arbitrary based on the values of a particular culture, but it’s being applied as some universal value.