An alienated population

Question 1

What did the ordianry citizens of the Soviet Bloc face?

Answer 1

Long working hours, low-grade housing, poorly stocked shops, shortages of basic foodstuffs and consumer goods, and a lack of amenities

Question 2

What did the deficiencies in the Soviet Bloc lead to?

Answer 2

Low productivity of the workforce
An extensive black market
Growing social problems such as alcoholism, mental illness and suicide

Question 3

In public, why did most people conform?

Answer 3

In order to avoid the attention of the security police

Question 4

In private, how did people in the Soviet Bloc feel?

Answer 4

Alienated from the communist regime that governed them. The authorities knew this

Question 5

What did secret research conducted by the USSR in the 1960s reveal?

Answer 5

That few Soviet citizens embraced Marxism-Leninism