Soviet wife: how it was
'18.05.2021'
Source: Columnist
As an illustration of a hard Soviet matriarchy, the image of a wife is often described. This is a shrew of a shrew and a tat robe, grumpy, cold in bed, selecting wages. But was it really so?
Salary - wife!
As far as I understand, the reason that material resources were transferred to the management of a woman was not at all matriarchy, but a deficit, writes blogger Marcelo Moreno for Browser. It was not enough to have money - it was also necessary to manage to buy something from them - clothes, soap, products.
And if we are not talking about Moscow, then this required to defend about a 2-hour queue. It was on this dangerous area that the wife rushed, humbly awaiting the delivery of chicken or canned food no more than two in one hand. If you look at the photographs of the Soviet lines, you will see that most of their “inhabitants” are female.
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Women lived, suffered and died in lines, trying to spin at least a little of the benefits of civilization for their families. And the man still did not have cultural ways to spend his pay, such as a strip bar, or a chat with runetki. I kept it for myself and gave it to my wife so that my head wouldn't hurt. Let her "command."
Get away, my head hurts!
By the way, about a sick head. It is worth remembering about another, supposedly Soviet horror. About his wife with a sore head, constantly denying her husband in the joys of love. Was this situation forced or was it some kind of insidious insidiousness?
I think everything is much easier. Today we can leave the house and buy any contraception for every taste. And in Soviet times, when removed from the center, it was not so easy to get contraceptives. Basically, one method was used - the one after which every second in the hospital. And if not in the maternity hospital - then on an abortion, but it is scary, painful, embarrassing, and morally very hard.
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I read such a description of a love scene: a pig-like husband who came from work gets to his wife, performs marital duty, turns away from the wall and snores loudly. A tear is rolling down the woman’s cheek - she will most likely have to go on the sixteenth abortion ...
Thick, in hair curlers and old dressing gown ...
As for the classic description of the wife - a full, tired out life of an aunt in an old greasy robe, with a short haircut and a tired look, then there is a combination of several factors. The type of the same deficiency, which makes it difficult to acquire something more decent, and around the dressing gown with mother-of-pearl buttons you can build a whole spy adventure. Type of reluctance to once again provoke a husband, and then go for an abortion. Well, comfortable uniform, of course. For standing in line.
In short, the Soviet wife seems to me rather selfless workhorse than a dictator. Although, probably, it was different. What do you think?
