The Life Under the USSR

By: Islamzhon Madrakhimov

            This story is about Djahangirkhan who was under power of the USSR. He was born on May 25, 1941. He is 70 years old. He was born in a country which was the USSR. He was there during the time when everyone was equal, everything was peaceful. Something that was difficult at his young age was when he was soviet person there weren’t any owned buildings, any stores, shops, or factories. He saw life as everything was under control of the government including jobs, traveling, businesses, the markets—everything was controlled by communists in Moscow (the capital of the USSR, now is the capital of Russia). He lived where the government didn’t let people pray.

           

            Djahangirkhan knows that there were five leaders in USSR, but he saw only four of them. So all of the leaders were: Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Gorbachev. As he knows about restructuring in USSR there was only one restructuring in Union Soviet from 1985-1990. During the restructuring the USSR was ruined. He lived in a big country which included 15 republics. The countries were Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belorussia, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Baltic States (Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania), Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Moldova and Kazakhstan.

           

He thinks the fall of Union Soviet caused by Gorbachev’s ideology because Gorbachev made the laws that said: “Every country can have rights to use their own recourses” it supposed to stay one Big country, but then countries thought we can make our own country and control that and they wanted to be a democracy countries. He thinks some ways people who didn’t want to be under of USSR/communists made fall of because there under control of communists were not freedom, were controlled on everything… So, that’s why most of people wanted to fall of Soviet Union/USSR.

He says that there were few better things than Union Soviet, but there were worst things than better things. However he liked the USSR!