OMG, Soviet Bad Girls! Breaking News That Shook the USSR Back in 1986

Soviet bad girls. Russian bad girls. The final years of the Soviet Union. Michael Gorbachev and his Glasnost policy. Life in the USSR during its last years. Stories about life in the Soviet Union. Soviet bad girls on the streets of Moscow.
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[@UshankaShow]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zoa9dKCgf7CWe8k Interdevochka movie Hello, comrades! My name is Sergei. I was born in the USSR in 1971. Since 1999 I have lived in the USA. Ushanka Show channel was created to share stories as well as my own memories of everyday life in the USSR. My book about arriving in America in 1995 is available on www.sputnikoff.com/ (Russian or English versions) or Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B08DJ7RNTC Please contact me at [e-mail] if you would like to purchase a signed copy of “American Diaries” You can support this project here: www.patreon.com/sputnikoff with monthly donations Support for this channel via PAYPAL: paypal.me/ushankashow Ushanka Show merchandise: teespring.com/stores/ushanka-show-shop If you are curious to try some of the Soviet-era candy and other foodstuffs, please use the link below. www.russiantable.com/imported-russian-chocolate-mishka-kosolapy__146-14.html?tracking=5a6933a9095f9 My FB: facebook.com/sergey.sputnikoff Twitter: twitter.com/ushankashow Instagram: instagram.com/ushanka_show/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/The_Ushanka_Show/

[@JayeshLimaye]

Интердевочка is a really nice movie, especially for those who are interested in knowing how things were during the late 80s in the Soviet Union when гласность was being observed in full force. However, this movie ended abruptly. If there is part 2, can you please share the link for that too? Thanks, Sergei!)))

[@louisdebacco3217]

i watched this when it first came out cause im a subscriber but ive been actually trying to learn the language so ive been going over some of ur old stuff, got any suggestions. hahaha that girl at the end she was just easy and if the dude would have realized it he might have saved 50 bucks

[@ThatGuy-mu2rr]

Trumps face on the Russian military guy……. 😂

[@magnashield8604]

It's interesting. Growing up in the US my dad worked for a defense contractor. (His company made ammunition for the A-10 warthogs GAU-8 gattling gun) My perspective was shaped by his work and popular media about the "evil" USSR. Have you watched any older Western media and how they treated Russia/USSR during the cold war?

[@Microphunktv-jb3kj]

my mom worked as waitress or club-like thing in olympia hoitel in estonia during soviet union, she earned 400 rubles month ; ) the average wage was like 100 in estonia (doctors earned 110, tractor drivers 600) ; ) thats why soviet union never worked out, idiotic supply/demand and wealth distribution and fcked economy

[@mongke1000]

"trading hard currency for their hard bodies" I died 😂

[@bikramjeetgoswami6523]

Yup! Got to remember that one. 🤣

[@m.junaidmahmood4209]

Well malnourished ladies do feel like bones.

[@Ciborium]

I'm sure they got those hard bodies from eating all that pickled seaweed they were forced to buy in the grocery store.

[@Arhpeco]

There was a joke about this topic. Soviets wanted to nationalize this "industry" so they set up a bordel for foreigners in Moscow. However buisness was unexpetably slow, aldough they employed experienced party members with 30 years work experience.

[@georgepirpiris7309]

😆One last hoorah for the Politburo!

[@williampaz2092]

😂🤣

[@jamesgillen2339]

Truly there is nothing that communism cannot ruin.

[@nancyhey1012]

Maybe because they did not “party” enough in the Communist Party?

[@nancyhey1012]

@@georgepirpiris7309they needed to be more “polite” in the Politburo!

[@CzechwithaPraguer]

The exact same thing was happening in Czechoslovakia. Girls waiting for foreigners in hotels, who paid them in western currencies ...

[@joechang8696]

in the late 80's, the Intercontinental was a good place to meet ladies who could help you with currency exchange. the official currency exchange rate was once thing, at certain locations, people would exchange rate a different rate

[@MrSonofsonof]

Dolarovky!

[@cooltrades7469]

@@joechang8696 In all eastern block Intercontinental was the '' action '' place for a lot of things.

[@restoreleader]

But could you imagine being surprised by this while reading it in newspaper? Everybody knew and it is quite obvious that prostitution is everywhere since dawn of time

[@queenofdramatech]

Yep Dubí! I drove through it when I was five. Our Czech friends asked us the next month what we thought. 😂

[@andershansson2245]

Fun fact: The guy playing the Swedish guy in "Intergirl" is half Swedish-half Finnish actor Tomas (FIN: Tuomas) Laustiola. He was born in Sweden, but the marriage broke up, and his mother moved back to Finland with him when he was only two. He returned to Sweden in the late 70's as a young actor. He's later said that his Finnish accent prevented him getting bigger roles, and insted being offered to play dark or troubled characters, like Finns, and Russians...

[@j.dunlop8295]

Clouds of the Winter War? 😮

[@andershansson2245]

​@@j.dunlop8295 Laustiola was born in 1949, so no. Only small children were evacuated, not the general population. His mother came over after war.

[@tristanholland6445]

I would love to see the reaction that the “there’s no sex in the Soviet Union” lady had upon reading this article. I bet she spilled her tea.

[@ianchapman6254]

@@jmbpaz Actually it was their state patriotic duty to the motherland :)

[@throwback19841]

Bad girls, bad girls, what you gonna do, what you gonna do if Komsomol snitch on you..

[@Dome31337]

Give them some head?

[@frenkli9815]

@@Dome31337 is the dome username a coincidence? 😂

[@ukuleletyke]

I’m surprised the day after they didn’t just publish a newspaper full of classical music.

[@gargoyle7863]

nice one! 😂😂

[@stephanievaladez5286]

Wow! During this time, there probably was something new everyday. I LOVE your channel and it's NEVER BORING. From one of your few female viewers, keep the videos coming!

[@UshankaShow]

Thanks, Stephanie!

[@martinlugus7242]

Sergei, your videos and delivery are just getting better and better - especially as your droll sense of humor comes more into play.

[@RogerThat787]

I second this motion!!

[@82dorrin]

Chernobyl explodes and the USSR discovers sex. 1986 was a weird year.

[@markhillary7402]

The soviet authorities shouldn’t have been surprised that this “ industry” developed since, after all, there was NO SEX IN THE SOVIET UNION!

[@Dingomush]

Actually it was the exact opposite! Communist party f#@k everybody! LOL!

[@TraditionalAnglican]

The only ones not getting laid were the party bosses, except for Gorbachev. Between decrepitude & vodka, they just couldn’t “get it up”.

[@ianchapman6254]

@@Dingomush True but that was supposed to be a government monopoly. The KGB didn't like the fact that government had competition in this area.

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

@@Dingomush Lol

[@shannoncole7051]

Ha! Ha! "Selling LUUV, for MUUN-NEY" Your killing me Serg. That was hilarious!

[@frankprit3320]

i really enjoy your channel, this is all the stuff I was always curious about. I was born in 1966 and grew up on a small farm in Ohio in the 1970's and 80's. compared to 2020 it seems very primitive as we only had 4 channels on the TV and it was an antenna. We heated with wood or coal, obviously there was no cell phones back then, only a landline that we shared with our neighbors. most families only had one car back in those days, no 4 -wheel drive so when it snowed, we didn't go anywhere. Alot of people grew gardens to save on food costs. We raised our own animals for meat and also Hunted game. keep bringing us the stories, as I really enjoy hearing about how your life really was back then, i find this stuff very interesting.👍👍😊 best wishes to you and your family.

[@johnappleby405]

A friend of mine went on business trips to Moscow in the last days of the USSR. He told me about drinking in his hotel bar when some incredibly beautiful Russian girls showed up. Hard currency girls ‘inter girls’ I think they were called...

[@looserkuka]

And i think we all know what happend after that... 🤭

[@seanledden4397]

"Ladies with low social responsibilities." Love it! ....... I'm also going to laugh a long time over "developed socialism and prostitution can peacefully coexist." (Insert LOL emoji here)

[@kevink2593]

Hi Sergei: this is very interesting to me, as I saw a lot of this action in my two visits to Moscow, both of them during the 1980s. The police and security were pretty easy to bribe in most of the hotels for sure, but the girls were most active by far in the old Intourist hotel, and the Mezhdunarodnaya (International) hotel where the foreign businessmen stayed. And it's important I think to mention that besides foreign money, the girls really liked to get presents too such as American and European cigarettes (especially Marlboros which were as good as money), lipstick, makeup and lingerie (so-called deficit items). I met a guy from India who visited Moscow regularly and never failed to keep a stash of such inventory in his suitcase. For sure he was one tourist who NEVER complained about "good service"! Спасибо и продолжайте в том же духе с вашими видео!

[@floro7687]

When going ashore in the Soviet Union is was quite common to have 3-4 shirts on top of each other as early as the sixties.

[@CzechwithaPraguer]

You're great, Sergei :-)) Greetings from Prague, Czechia.

[@UshankaShow]

Thanks!

[@Svetlana-says-it-as-it-is.]

Great to see you here, I found you on Ecolinguist.

[@anthonytarczynski5423]

“Yes. I’m Mikhail Gorbachev and I approve this message”

[@MrSloika]

This was only 'breaking news' for the average Soviet Citizen. When I was a boy growing up in NYC, American businessmen, entertainers, athletes visiting the former USSR were warned that they would be approached by Soviet girls offering sex. They were told that many of these girls were employed by the KGB to get Western businessmen/officials into a compromising situation. I'm sure some of these girls were freelancers, some were trying to find some Western guy to marry them and get them out of the USSR, but to say that the KGB didn't always know about this is pure naivete. Right from the very start, Soviet intelligence services employed the 'honey trap'. All intelligence services do. Why would the USSR intelligence agencies be any different?

[@TheAsheybabe89]

Imagine how great it would be to be a single man with no valuable information that they couldn’t get dirt on, so instead the Soviet state bought you super model class hookers for no reason.

[@roberthenry3757]

My Mother was a. “Bar Hostess” in Nippon (Japan) in the 50tys. My Father was a Officer. Smart Lady!

[@rotte6]

A good friend of mine traveled to Moscow for work several times during the mid 1980`s .He told me these hunters worked the hotels designated for foreign visitors and was advised by a barmen not to mess with them as many worked for the KGB...

[@pauljefferies9087]

Finally!! A comment which is accurate!

[@RogerThat787]

You know with a title like this you are going to get a high view amount!! Another Ushanka Show Banger from the vaunted archives .

[@areguapiri]

Those girls deserved every bit of the money earned!

[@tuoppi42]

For some reason, I keep on hearing about this "central comedy" of soviet union. Maybe it is just in my head.

[@UshankaShow]

Yeah, it was full of old clowns

[@nicholascortez728]

@@UshankaShow one of them even wrestled in a Frankie Goes To Hollywood video

[@PsilocybinCocktail]

This is fascinating (and seedy) stuff! The only reference I have ever read about prostitution and the Soviet Union was a paragraph in "Gorky Park" about prost- excuse ME - 'Night Butterflies' - putting their rates on their shoes in lipstick for the customers. Possibly not the most accurate description, but a telling one.

[@jimdavis8391]

My father recollected seeing girls with the price on their shoes in 1966 when he was in Moskva.

[@SmithFriscoFamily]

“Sadie Hawkins”? girls ask the boys out.

[@mommafletch]

YEP! I was wondering if people still knew of Sadie Hawkins dances! :P

[@maddoxlogging2303]

Here in Ludington Michigan(🇺🇸) I graduated high school in 2011 and I was a huge “Gym Dummy” at 280lbs and 6’ 3”. Being that I was an Isaw-Catawba Native American with a 6 pack and a tan, I was THEEE Pool Cleaning Guy for most 🔥 stay at home women in the area. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve been made lunch by a rich older lady who was coincidentally, sunbathing when the appointment was made for me to clean! It was only maybe 10% who I slept with but 100% of them were hiring me for my looks and low IQ

[@AR15andGOD]

are you proud

[@AHMEDGAIUSROME]

Nothing is free in life. If you're not paying for it, someone else is!

[@djlondon7956]

I'm afraid to say that something has gone seriously wrong with your videos, Comrade Sergei. This is NOT the boring content I have come to expect and rely on from you. On the contrary, it contains information verging on decadent Western Excitement. I am shocked and disappointed. Will there be a second episode? I just need to be warned so that I can avoid watching it. Which I am sure you will understand, Comrade. Thank you.

[@listener523]

Was in country at that time (student trip) this was no great secret if you were in a hotel that had beriozka shops (which also took foreign currency).

[@I_am_Diogenes]

"White Dance" = Sadie Hawkins ? I didnt know y'all had something that similar .

[@resrussia]

KBG would be interested the girls activities because it might useful in recruiting spies. My understanding he Russian/Soviet security agencies are well know for collecting compromising information on the foreigners (and their citizens) and then use it as way to recruiting for spies. When I went to the Soviet Union in 1986 as part of a college course on the Soviet Union, my professor keep a close eye on our group because of the these girls.

[@cstaats]

The Sparrows KGB had a school where the young ladies would be trained called the Sparrow school

[@YBM2007]

honey trap, oldest trick in the book lol

[@Kaththee]

@@cstaats The CIA does the same stuff. Jeffrey Epstein was an asset of theirs, as evidenced by the protection from prosecution that he enjoyed for decades. Read the book "One Nation Under Blackmail" if you want to see how deep it goes.

[@Microphunktv-jb3kj]

@@cstaats I think there's even hollywood movie about it

[@John-mf6ky]

There was a lot of sexpionage during the cold war.

[@jamesk370]

Several months wages for a single night's work. I'm guessing the reaction to this article (from at least a few women) was "how do I become a foreign currency prostitute?"

[@jurisprudens]

There was a very popular Russian joke in the aftermath: A school teachers assembly. One of the teachers is reprimanded: “Clara Anatolyevna! How could it have happened, that you, a respectable woman, a teacher 👩‍🏫, highly evaluated in your profession, loved by children and colleagues, that you became a hard-currency prostitute?” The teacher: “I don’t know. I guess I was just lucky”

[@raulbeienheimer]

This guy is hilarious, the way he explains the things 🤣 😂 😆 😄 😅

[@remalm3670]

... Well done Komrade, I was a Cold War Warrior (US) ... I'm glad what could of happened, didn't. I wish you and yours Peace, Health and Prosperity. ... Bless you ...

[@michaelnomnomandryuk]

Sergei giving us the edgy stories we want to hear.

[@UshankaShow]

Yeah, but I don't want to go too deep. Maybe just a tip.

[@PanchosView]

@@UshankaShow Nicely said! 😁

[@howardjohnson2138]

The Sadie Hawkins Day is when the Ladies ask the men - It's from Al Capp's cartoon strip Lil Abner and many Americans would not be old enough to remember this item.

[@DirtyHairy1]

Nice vid, thank you! @9:20 looks a bit surreal, 60's cars and fashion with a cellphone :) Is it a mockup or an original where its a hand mirror?

[@Hussarianbrother]

I check every night for a new video thank you comrade.

[@helifanodobezanozi7689]

This video is hilarious!!! Well done!!!!

[@jakesarms8996]

When I was a prison guard in Illinois, I remember a Russian inmate who was extremely angry when he was shown a magazine with the Band Pussy Riot . Lol he was besides himself over it

[@vilefly]

Tell us more about his reaction.

[@edwinswift2646]

At that time, you did what you had to in order to survive and put food on the table.

[@strfltcmnd.9925]

I'm willing to bet there were working girls around in the days of the Tzar

[@schbrachbolidsei]

This kind of prostitution was going on in ALL countries of the so called Eastern Block. Any hotel service would offer you a female guide once you entered your booked room as a single foreign man by phoning you up.

[@steveeuphrates-river7342]

Wow super interesting episode! Thanks

[@angeldetierra3855]

► Also, sales people were making good money! The rate for the dollar when I lived there, was 3 rubles for $1.

[@jansundvall2082]

The green telephone showed by you is a Swedish model called “Dialog” used in the 70’s and 80’s before the digitalisation of the net. You see the origin on the hand microphone with the seal of Swedish Telecom, Televerket.

[@tannerdenny5430]

I cracked up when he said trading love for money. Pffft that's great.

[@nicholasmercorella5318]

Was big news in the USA as well. 20/20 did a segment on it. I remember the translated term “cash prostitute” was used repeatedly

[@tomservo5347]

I remember that picture of the retired Red Army colonel holding the Soviet flag yelling "Traitor!" to the anti-communist protester in a National Geographic from 1991 about the collapse. My boomer Dad saw it and commented "That's something I thought I'd never see in my lifetime."

[@simongrushka983]

i've chuckled at the way you have said 'loove' in 4:36 lol

[@ukwupdates3509]

Hi S, I was just wondering how was life fpr Ukrainian nationalists in the USSR, especially those who actively fought against the Soviets and Nazis. I was in Kiev just before the pandemic hit and there was alot of information in the streets by Maidan, however there was no English translations, thanks 👍

[@UshankaShow]

Solzhenitsyn mentioned in his GULAG ARCHIPELAGO book about a huge wave of the Ukranians from the Western parts who resisted Soviet occupation. So 10 or 25 years of hard labor was the punishment

[@christianpethukov8155]

I remember a salacious American documentary about female Soviet "professionals" called Prostituki. So totally 80's!!

[@sheikfrankicechibu1827]

your imagry is outstanding :)

[@melissahollowell7255]

Wasn't every taxi driver fully aware of this nefarious activity?

[@sandgrownun66]

🤑Nefarious activity? Aren't you aware that it's called the "World's Oldest Profession"?🤑

[@pauljefferies9087]

Taxi driver also KGB, my naive non Russian commenter.

[@Anonymouzee]

always interesting stories... 👍 the most interesting... being true stories!!! 🖖

[@saintburnsy2468]

13:29 "I'm not a whore, but 50 bucks is 50 bucks" 😂

[@Momo-kun88]

One of your most interesting and funny videos.... and I approve this message.

[@skolbarometern4045]

The phone at 10:30 is a Swedish phone! You can see the small symbol with a crown and lightning arrows. We had a gray such phone when I was a kid.

[@ernsthazenbroek9349]

Must be an Ericsons, same in Holland were too!

[@joeruth123]

In the US and Canada, the white dance is called a Sadie Hawkins dance.

[@williampawson5476]

Or "Ladies choice"...

[@geoh7777]

This well-executed video with a very relevant view of the situation in the USSR before the "collapse of the Soviet Union" seems to been de-emphasized by the host platform. Only 42,000 views after more than two years.

[@wmtrader]

Sadie Hawkins Dance is the American equivalent of the White Dance in Russia

[@FilK79]

This is so sad. Because, for instance, in Yugoslavia, we had good life during socialism, and when wars, hiperinflation and sanctions started, liife quality went from almost top to worst, and even so, no woman went to prostitution... Maybe because is a minor space so people know eachother and take care of their prestige, but no Yugoslav girls never went to prostitution in any major scale.

[@gagamba9198]

_'but no Yugoslav girls never went to prostitution_ *in any major scale* _.'_ So, just a _minor scale_ then? How are major and minor defined and/or quantified?

[@gagamba9198]

@@MacakPodSIjemom OK, so what was that per cent? Thinking deeper, there appears to be a 'just right' per cent... perhaps of any occupation. Take firefighters. Someone (or group) decided that x per cent of the workforce is needed to fight fires. I presume they'd analyse many aspects such as population and its density, distance and response time, types of facilities and structures and their number, proximity to active volcanoes, incidence of wild/forest fires, frequency of children playing with matches, etc. To know whether it's over/under, we have to have that just right number. What then is the 'just right' per cent of people working as prostitutes?

[@gagamba9198]

@@MacakPodSIjemom Then your number is zero - absolutely so - and thus your mentioning of under representation in that context was pointless. Merely one makes it over.

[@gagamba9198]

@@MacakPodSIjemom I understand this statement 'There's no "just right percent of people working as prostitutes'"' to mean none. For example, 'none are acceptable.' I understand none to mean zero. Do you mean something else? If you do, please say so clearly. Though perhaps you like to wiggle around and play word games. 'You can take my words as a witness account, and no more or less, this is not a scientific study.' I understand it to be mere anecdote.. But, let's not forget this statement of yours too: 'That's very true, and deserves to be noted.' If it's very true and worthy of note, it has to be based on something more than anecdote. More accurate is something like: "What I have seen...' or 'In my limited experience...' These are less overblown claims of the truth. As for this: "But, I'm not interested in your early morning equilibristic, so you can perform it somewhere else." It's late afternoon for me. And the clumsy one is you. Because you are not the owner of this channel, I will disregard the 'take it elsewhere' command. You have no authority whatsoever. You ought to check yourself. You're not as entitled as you think you are. When you offer comments publicly, don't be surprised or object when you get replies including ones you dislike. It comes with the territory. Handle it like an adult. Stop behaving like a thin-skinned child.

[@gagamba9198]

@@MacakPodSIjemom Length is indicative of nothing than length itself. It's merely a tally of words. You imaging other things is your imagination running wild. You ought to rein that in. You made several points and I replied. If you prefer a shorter reply, make fewer points. 'I'm not the one being butthurt or thin-skinned child here.' You told me to go elsewhere because you were unable to substantiate. On a channel that isn't yours. That's certainly actual evidence of your character failings. I see now you have ceased demanding I go elsewhere. Glad to see you've checked yourself. Good on you to heed solid advice.

[@phrogman4654]

Keep up the good work; this is the kind of thing you can tell so that the youths of America who are being told socialize is perfect.

[@Doo_Doo_Patrol]

There is no free lunch. In the end everyone pays, and pays dearly.

[@clubprojects6923]

I was a tourist and student in the USSR during 1987-89. This existed, but was very limited. And I never saw a streetwalker.

[@douglaswaggoner7487]

Mr. Peabody just increased the rates he charges for the use of his Wayback Machine. We’ll see if he builds another one to handle the volume. Did the papers report the increase of foreign men visiting the U.S.S.R.?😉😉😃🎄🥳

[@rkgaustin9043]

Back when Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian were first a thing they polled American high school girls asking what profession they wanted and a disturbing number of them just said "celebrity". Kinda like "influencer" is now.

[@laurenjeangreenbean6301]

Sadie Hawkins dance is when girls approach boys in us

[@johnstudd4245]

That artwork of the waitress and the family in the restaurant @9:10 is hilarious.

[@1971JamesHill]

The closest equivalent to beliy tanets is Sadie Hawkins Dance.

[@RogerThat787]

Back in the day you has to watch our for the American waitresses. They where worst then the Russian waitresses. Thanks for posting Comrade we all appreciate it!!

[@lonewulf44]

Hit that thumbs up as soon as I heard Gorbachev approved this message, lol

[@Catire92]

I would love to get a subscription of the Village Life newspaper. 😅

[@KurtisIsley]

In America, when girls invite boys to a dance, it's called the Sadie Hawkins dance. Not sure who Sadie Hawkins is/was.

[@dude-kz9yr]

Idk if anyone has said this before but a dance where the ladies invite the men is called a “Sadie Hawkins Dance”

[@richardhale1161]

Known fact kgb started hiring "night butterflies" to extract information from high ranking westerners

[@williambrasky3891]

Our white dance is called a Sadie Hopkins dance. No idea who Sadie Hopkins was, but I assume she was a stud.

[@Soundbrigade]

Группа Секрет: Зато Алиса и Лариса внутри уже давно, И скоро Джона или Криса, что в общем всё равно, Возьмут тихонько за хомут, посадят в тачку и свезут домой к Марине. Им тоже хочется иметь последней моды шелка, Выходит, нужно всё успеть, покуда грудь высока, И, значит, принцип этих дам - все флаги в гости будут к нам - вполне невинен!

[@xalleem8117]

I'm pretty sure some of the Soviet High Command had "dealings" with Night Huntresses....maybe that's why it took so long to be "discovered"...😂😂😂😂😂

[@bobertjones2300]

I had the same thought. Perhaps the Soviet elite used a French style of gratification of courtesans and mistresses.

[@jalexwheeler7751]

Closer English translation would be Night Huntress. AAND you covered that right as I posted.

[@UshankaShow]

😁

[@joeruth123]

One of those girls grew up to be FLOTUS

[@shelby3822]

I always have the hard currency when I wake up

[@UshankaShow]

Good old British pound?

[@bettyswunghole3310]

Why were dollars called "hard currency"?

[@MilmanFamily]

I wouldn't say the soviet media changed "irreversibly"... Looking at the current state of the Russian media - looks like the change was quite reversible...

[@tuzonthume]

committee sounds like comedy!!

[@cyclesgoff9768]

Intourist girls. Nothing new, the KGB more than tolerated it for Kompromat. Although these articles and the subsequent movie calmed the whole thing down.

[@jj-eg5up]

Interesting

[@jimdavis8391]

I refer to them as ladies 'with no visible means of support'.

[@neilwalsh4058]

So actually the pay scale in the USSR was correct. The people who had the most undesirable jobs got paid the most. Taxi drivers risk physical & verbal abuse, work unsociable hours, deal with drunks , fare dodgers etc. Waitresses much the same and prostitutes have added risk of STD's. All 3 are working to provide entertainment for others who are enjoying their leisure time, so what's the problem in them getting well paid for it? Academic jobs carry little or none of these conditions or risks. Waltzing into an office , sitting at a desk in a shirt+tie, subsidised canteens, private health care, gyms, and knowing they finish at 4.30pm 5 days per week so they have planned family/friend time. They're kept warm& safe by their employers but they commit the least so should be paid the least.

[@bomaite1]

Wait. Are you saying that there was no prostitution before Gorby? I don't think I am going to believe that. Or did you mean that it was just openly recognized then?

[@UshankaShow]

It was officially admitted for the very first time

[@josephbingham1255]

2:23 Once children with light hearts that laughed with joy and wonder. Perhaps the KGB rather than desperate entrepreneurs - wanted to rein in an emerging organized crime in such areas.

[@harrison6082]

9:01 I think it's still this way in Cuba right now 13:48 Lol

[@BrianKelsay]

The white dance, we cal this a Sadie Hawkins dance where the girl asks the guy. Named after some lady that wasn't getting what she wanted I suppose. 😂

[@Chiller01]

So 2 years later and apparently the central control over the countries popular media didn’t actually change irreversibly.

[@strfltcmnd.9925]

"The Central Comedy of the Soviet Union."😂

[@gargoyle7863]

Isn't it the same today with the salary? A high class escort model takes 2300 € for a night. (Since prostitution is legal in my country you can look up the prices on their website.)

[@sdmoparmaninsd6713]

LOL at the Duke Nukem comparison