Aug. 8, 2025
I need to run / 1
I was born in the Soviet Union a couple years before the start of Perestroika. My parents were engineers and my world was small and strange. Wretched clothes, creepy toys, huge queues in the stores and everyday road to the school in the next block. I couldn't even dream about travelling. In the early 90's things got better for me. Foreign goods finally appeared in the country and then I saw the difference. Hovewer, my parents were not so positive. Prices have increased hundreds of times and my mom had to work three jobs just to feed the family. I asked my father:
- Hey, why should we buy such creepy shoes? I want a Reebok! My classmate wears Reebok!
- No, you should not want this!
- But I want! Why?
- It's overpriced crap. Your classmate is the son of a gangster. The soviet footwear is more reliable and better.
- What?... Are you serious?...
I remember the day I first tasted belgian chocolate. In the mid-90's my sister got into a school exchange program with Switzerland. After that, her new friends sent us parcels with sweets. My world changed forever. I decided to do anything to never see the Soviet world again. It was a child's decision, but it is still with me.
I started trying to do something to change my life.
I was born in the Soviet Union a couple of years before the start of Perestroika.
My parents were engineers, and my world was small and strange.
We had wretched clothes, and creepy toys,. There were huge queues in the stores and e. Everyday road to theI rode to school in the next block.
I am not sure I understood the last part about school.
I couldn't even dream about travelling.
In the early 90's things got better for me.
Hovewer, my parents were not so positive.
Prices have increased hundreds of times from what they had been, and my mom had to work three jobs just to feed the family.
I asked my father:
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"I want a Reeboks!
My classmate wears Reebok!s!"
- "No, you should not want this!"
- "But I want them!
Why? can't I have them?"
- It's overpriced crap.
Your classmate is the son of a gangster.
The sSoviet footwear is more reliable and better.
- "What?...
Are you serious?...
I remember the day I first tasted bBelgian chocolate.
In the mid-90's my sister got into a school exchange program with Switzerland.
After that, her new friends sent us parcels with sweets.
My world changed forever.
I decided to do anything to never see the Soviet world again.
It was a child's decision, but it is still with me.
I started trying to do something to change my life.
Feedback
This is well written! I travelled in the Soviet Union around the time you were born and remember this time well. I mostly made a few minor corrections on punctuation. Quotation marks are tricky and even native speakers of English make mistakes with them. I look forward to reading more.
Aug. 9, 2025
Thank you!
I need to run / 1
I was born in the Soviet Union a couple years before the start of Perestroika.
My parents were engineers and my world was small and strange.
Wretched clothes, creepy toys, huge queues in the stores and everyday road to the school in the next block.
I couldn't even dream about travelling.
In the early 90's things got better for me.
Foreign goods finally appeared in the country and then I saw the difference.
Hovewer, my parents were not so positiveoptimistic.
Prices have increased hundreds of times and my mom had to work three jobs just to feed the family.
I asked my father: - Hey, why should we buy such creepy shoes?
I want a Reebok!
My classmate wears Reebok!
- No, you should not want this!
- But I want!
Why?
- It's overpriced crap.
Your classmate is the son of a gangster.
The soviet footwear is more reliable and better.
- What?...
Are you serious?...
I remember the day I first tasted bBelgian chocolate.
In the mid-90's my sister got into a school exchange program with Switzerland.
After that, her new friends sent us parcels with sweets.
My world changed forever.
I decided to do anything to never see the Soviet world again.
It was a child's decision, but it is still with me.
I started trying to do something to change my life.
Aug. 8, 2025
Thank you!
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