Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "Soviet Vacation 1. Favorite Resort Destinations in the USSR #ussr, #sovietlife" video.

  1. I grew up in Cleveland so all those Michigan jokes applied to there as well. There used to be a fair number of Soviets, East Germans, and Hungarians that went Croatia for vacations. The beaches had more sand and less rocks than most Black Sea resorts, and the Adriatic got quite warm in summer. Croatia in Tito's time was more liberal than the USSR and the satellite states. People were able to buy western goods at prices way lower than in the USSR, even if they were available there. Several Croatian resort hotels also had casinos, something you never saw in the USSR. People would come to gamble and work on their tan. Really, it's only hot in Michigan for maybe 10 days out of the year. Come down South in the summer, where the high is never below 90 from June to mid-September if you want hot. There are many people with a second house in places like Michigan and Wisconsin to escape the heat, and then they come back south to escape the snow. Not a bad life if you can afford it.
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