The USSR in 1981 from Viewpoint of a Traveler

A Spanish traveler B. Lucarrats had decided to visit Russia in 1981, including Moscow, said that country then.

According to the disgust caused him said people who had been watching the Olympics do not deserve justice and further, if these people were professionals information, which should be clear and truthful, people whose duty was to approach the true even Scottish.

Set out to write the truth of the facts as he traveled on vacation with his wife to the USSR.

Russia described the sight of a tourist. I admired him that all corners of Russia of that time were a postcard, each in its way, a fantastic set. If we had said the underground Moscow, we would have never forgotten the impression received was not just know it was one of the first wonders of the world. Many of the stations were a real art museum.

The capital city of Moscow was practically nestled within a forest or a large garden, this was the impression offered. For both the health of the capital had to be perfect because they were surrounded by trees everywhere. Unlike many countries there were few cars on the roads and highways.

People dressed as in Barcelona, ​​no more no less, not seen on the streets was Mrs. encopetada full of bracelets and bright, but there was a person dressed poorly desgradiadamente that abound everywhere. He had walked all over Moscow, had gone to Leningrad (St. Petersburg the time), had traveled from Leningrad to Kiev. As described "Leningrad is fantastic. The Neva is majestic and clean as a starry night. Ukraine with its huge fields is wonderful?.

Everything described as the crow flies.

Is necessary to note that the time in the USSR at the time the media greatly exaggerates the benefits of the country then. Well some things you will read has nothing to do with the reality of 80-s years.

Looking at the issue of children, many would like to say that Moscow had taken simply said that was false take them out to avoid mixing with the tourists. It happened that had much more luck than Russian children in Spain and enjoying more privileges than the rest of this world. That is, at the end of the courses of various kinds, had (and now have them!) Three you rock on vacation and went on vacation for resorts and camps. But of course the bad journalists silenced as though they knew it and tried to teach the most negative.

Spanish traveler said that "if these gentlemen want to see, the movies filmed everywhere without anyone my attention at all, would be with your mouth open. Special envoys from the television, have demonstrated through their films with the brevity and limitation of their shots, bad intentioned would have been better not to show anything, because instead of putting no more than five minutes a good view is recreated teaching something that is worth the truth, I saw it all, so beautiful, I explained where it would take?.

Such was the case of some poor people who were seen by a trench for the foundations of a house without tools of any kind cement kneaded by hand.