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Samuel Greenberg

Behind Iron Curtains of Soviet totalitarian state

language ( Oct. 8, 2018)

Everyday life of Soviet people based on personal story of my friend’s family


This book is based on the personal history of four generations of my friend's family in 74 years of Soviet totalitarian rule. It shows all the periods of the bloody Soviet history, beginning with the “Great October Socialist Revolution” of 1917, and step by step introduces you to all the main events of the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991. All the stories and facts in this book are real. After reading this book, you will see the everyday life of ordinary Soviet people behind the iron curtains of the Soviet Union. You will get a better understanding of today's Russian politics, values ​​and reality.

What is inside the book?


The everyday life of ordinary Soviet people in the former USSR against the background of world and Soviet historical events: the Soviet way of life, childhood, education, work, study, military service in the Rocket Forces, raising children, sexual life and prostitution in the Soviet Union, entertainment and leisure, Soviet propaganda and ideology, political ambitions of Soviet leaders to expand communist influence in other countries, which led to World War II, the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Congo, Nicaragua and other military conflicts and many other facts as it was in the former USSR.

This is brief but comprehensive and real history of evil state - “The Soviet Union”


Readers will see how the leaders of the Communists exterminated their citizens during the Civil War, the Ukrainian famine, forced collectivization and Stalinist repression against the Soviet people. The book shows all sides of the Soviet reality: political education, starting from kindergarten, lack of food and goods, state anti-Semitism, control of the life of Soviet people by the KGB and the police, restrictions on places of residence, hard labor and poor wages and pensions of ordinary Soviet people, regular queues for goods and food, the movement of dissidents and much more.

Target audience


This book is written for anyone who wants to know how Soviet people lived their daily lives in the former USSR

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You will not need to visit North Korea to see how people survive in the last totalitarian country in the world, built similar to the former Soviet Union.

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