This is why I love research.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

Really, I am posting to ask all my nice readers if they can tell me anything about the nightlife during the (post-Stalin) Communist era. It's for a fic, obviously. I'm especially interested in Russia, Poland, and the GDR. Would anybody feel like telling me what the kids used to do for fun? It'd be way way way appreciated. This is turning out to be

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Haha shitty micorfill.

[tauruschick12]

Russia, in all honesty, had thought it'd been a joke

*APPLAUSE*

[pyrrhiccomedy]

"Hate on, hater," America replied, then pulled out a few bills and called over the stripper.

KEEP LIVIN' THE DREAM, AMERICA. ♥

I love you.

Re: *APPLAUSE*

[tauruschick12]

"KEEP LIVIN' THE DREAM, AMERICA."

And what a fine dream it is. Even our worst enemies can't resist the call of star-spangled sequined booty pants.

You know, I've always thought that I wouldn't step foot in Russia without a full radiation prevention suit, but screw it. When I can, I will go to this club, in the most glittery thing I own. Or maybe a glittery radiation prevention suit.

Re: *APPLAUSE*

[pyrrhiccomedy]

You know, I've always thought that I wouldn't step foot in Russia without a full radiation prevention suit

Why not? D= I've always wanted to go to Russia! As soon as somebody hands me a million dollars, it is the first place for which I intend to disembark. But I...think I'll give the club scene a miss... XD

Re: *APPLAUSE*

[tauruschick12]

No, I DO want to go to Russia. A lot, actually. Moscow especially. And in the winter if I can, because I want to see how cold they really are. XD

It's just that when I was young, if Russia ever came up, I was usually told that 'if you go to Russia, you'll come back with a third head' and I'd be told stories of whole cities being abandoned because of nuclear spill, etc, etc, etc. (Although, now that I think of it, doesn't America have the same problems? I'm sure we've lost a city or two to nuclear spill...)

So I want to go, and I will go, if I can, but I'll probably be a bit nervous, even if the logical part of my brain knows it'll be fine. XD

Re: *APPLAUSE*

[pyrrhiccomedy]

With the magic of the internet, I produce ~figures!~

Number of civilian nuclear accidents:

America: 5
Japan: 3
Russia: 2
Canada: 2
UK: 2
Germany: 2 (one Eastside, one Westside)
France: 1
Hungary: 1
Yugoslavia: 1
Switzerland: 1
Ukraine: 1 <---more on this below.

You can add another tick to Russia's docket if you want to include the Lenin, but that happened at sea.

The reason Russia gets a bad rap about nuclear accidents is the association with Chernobyl, the only Level 7 nuclear disaster in history. To say that it was worse by a factor of magnitude to any other spill or meltdown experienced elsewhere in the world would be putting it lightly. Chernobyl is what made people afraid of nuclear power. However, it happened in the Ukraine. Which was part of the Soviet Union at the time, obviously, but still. If you're talking about geographic dangers of radiation, it doesn't go on Russia's docket (most of the fallout drifted over Ukraine and Belarus

Re: *APPLAUSE*

[tauruschick12]

W-Woah, so America's the worst out of all of them. I'll have to tell my family that.

P-Poor Urkraine. You suffer so.

Well, I feel much more comforted about visiting Russia now! Thank you so much! :) Who says you don't learn anything from the Hetalia fandom?

Re: *APPLAUSE*

[pyrrhiccomedy]

Don't think of it like "America's the worst out of all of them"--America just has more nuclear power plants than anybody else. Stuff breaks, no matter how careful you are. But Russia's no worse in that regard than anywhere else. Chernobyl was a terrible disaster, no question, but it was only one incident (and...like I said, it didn't happen in Russia in the first place).