Would you have travelled to Russia (to live) 30 years ago? Or, would you move to any country that is under control by a communistic government just...

For a "culture shock"? In your early 20's when you have your whole life ahead of you?

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UpForItNow · 22-25, F

I really wanted to visit South Africa under apartheid, but got there 15 years too late.

perceptivei · 36-40, F

@UpForItNow I'll have to look that up --- apartheid.

quitwhendone · M

@perceptivei racial segregation

UpForItNow · 22-25, F

@quitwhendone Famously described by its architect, Verwoerd, as "a policy of good neighbourliness." I was motivated by one famous visitor's observation that "everything they say about that country is true." And the act of visiting despite widespread moral boycott struck me as the ultimate intellectual nonconformist gesture.