What was your country doing in the 50s?

What was your country doing in the 50s?

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Busy being poor

Thinking Rock Around the Clock was created by the KGB to pollute America's youth and turn them into degenerate sex maniacs.

and they were right

Irony is that the Russians thought jazz and rock and roll were corrupted music that was created by the US State Department to destroy the discipline of Soviet youth and turn them into hedonistic slackers.

and they were right

being as miserable as possible

If both were right then who made rock and roll and why did they do it?

the answer is so close

Bussy being poor too

lyl

Yeah that Joe McCarthy was like the Gestapo. All those leftist Hollywood screenwriters who...couldn't get hired to write movies, the horror, the horror.

>Leftists are horrible. All those right grifters who...couldn't spread far right propaganda to sexually frustrated 14 year old white boys on twitter, reddit and facebook! the horror,the horror.

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Communism

>such was the public backlash that the PWP in 1956 dropped socialist realism as the state policy in the arts, while this happened in the USSR in 1988.

beating the shit out of niggers and doing big science things. it was based

'50s TV Hero

THE MOON MASK RIDER

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Building stuff

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Nice

Homeland was still a colony

A time Jow Forumstards fetishize when they imagine you could wear a fedora, beat your wife, and POCs had to polish your shoes.

It was a time of major construction. The Flevopolder(largest man made island in the world) and Noord-Oostpolder were erected, at the same time the deltawerken were build which are considered a marvel of modern engineering.

Most of this shithole was build in the 50s and 60s. Afterwards we cannot even build 10km of road anymore

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Thank you Marshall Plan.

i hope americans fucking die
>wi da ppl, iz fridom, wi luv freedom, gommies, vewi bad
>oh sorri you got an actual anti communist revolution going on, not interested
>wi da ppl iz freedom, gommies bad

eat shit and die

getting our polak asses fucked in...lmfao

Young people were breeding quickly, creating the Baby Boomer generation.

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I'm not defending that. Eisenhower thought intervention in Hungary would start World War III when the Russians weren't gonna do anything. They were fully expecting (and scared of) a NATO invasion of Hungary and were actually bewildered when nothing happened. Only when they were 100% certain it was safe did they go into Budapest.

It FINALLY got rid of the god damn wars after close to 150 years of them

It was a nationalist "revolution" you idiot. You had anarchists working with liberals and whatnot because muh soviets. You'd be another shithole like Poland if we intervened and let you fuck everything up for yourselves.

Cyprus revolution, commies being butt-hurt about losing the civil war, no prime minister lasts a full year with the exception of the last one who lasts 3, terrorism, people being poor and the country barely retaining its existence on Marshall cash

It was dumb. Over and over again the State Department way overestimated what the communist bloc was capable of, partially for lack of intelligence on what was going on there, and because it was an era when centralized planning was in vogue so they tended to assume the communist countries were more organized and disciplined than lazy, degenerated American youth.

Getting drunk and fighting with family members.
Black people invented it as a form of artistic expression and then white people put their own spin on it. Those guys are just shut in virgins who hate it when other people have fun.

We wuz just living the life.

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>Black people invented it as a form of artistic expression and then
Nice myth but rock and roll owed a great deal to white country and folk music.

Starving at first, then starving a bit less because of access to the UN. Also fighting a war against Morocco that nobody wants to remember - although we won, it was a real war with dead people and war crimes.

DAS RIGHT WE WUZ MUSICIANS AND SHIT!

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The early 50s in Eastern Europe was nightmare fuel when brutal Stalinism was the law of the land. After the Khrushchev thaw things got more bearable.

rebuilding

A lot has been made of the postwar economic boom but the US economy wasn't really doing that well in the 50s, growth was anemic and it only looked good because the Depression was still fresh in memory. There were three recessions as well.

forcing german-brazilians to speak portuguese

bourgeois parasites/jews

Most of the pop culture cliches associated with the 50s were in the second half of the decade, the first half was bland as fuck--the cars, the music, the fashions. Besides, we were in a war.

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Yeah things did lighten up a lot after 54, one reason being that Europe finished rebuilding from WWII so trans-Atlantic trade was booming once again and post-Stalin Russia seemed slightly less scary.

r/blackmasculinity

Soviet resistance managed to keep Spain out of the UN for ten years.

>let me tell you about your cunt
eat shit and die

The 50s were about appearances...however you had to lie, cheat or steal to look good and go along with society.
Many of the problems of today were there then -they were just swept under the rug and hidden.
Back then:

>husband is a drunk wife-beater...deal with it, he's the man of the house
>raped? Can't tell anyone
>molested? Definitely don't tell anyone, after all the priest is a respected member of the community and it would be really bad if everyone found out
>gay? get married to a woman you have no feelings for so nobody suspects.
The 50s have been way too romanticized.

It had its good and its bad like all eras. It's often said the 50s was a time of dull conformity, yet we had rock and roll, beatniks, jazz music, modernist architecture, the beginnings of space exploration.

The nuclear family may have been stronger, but teen pregnancy rates were high and this was probably the most peaceful and economically prosperous that American society had been in at least a generation.

Crime rates were low but police were also not as well trained or disciplined as today and corruption particularly among big city police departments was high, and Miranda Rights did not exist yet.

There were also a lot more societal boundaries and rules, both good and bad, such as the draft, real and defacto segregation, etc.

A woman's whole life was lived through her husband back then. Her place in society, income status, and her identity were all tied up with his. The thought of a women having a job other than secretary, nurse, stewardess, or homemaker was laughable. Nobody could imagine a woman being the president of a company a pilot or a doctor either. And if you had an outside job, you were expected to give it up when you got married to raise children.

We were trying to avoid a coup financed by the US
It worked until 1964

>husband is a drunk wife-beater...deal with it, he's the man of the house

This gets cited a lot as a bad thing about "the old days," but spousal/domestic partner homicide rates are actually higher NOW than they were back then. I wouldn't be surprised if there is actually overall more domestic violence today than back then, per capita, for various reasons.

Ie, a surprising number of modern women in the US choose to get into relationships with actual psychos or criminals, and end up getting killed. In the 50's, your family's approval mattered more, and it wasn't as common to just shack up with some druggie derelict thug that you met on a phone app.

It's a very overrated time period. Even the group that supposedly benefited the most, protestant white Americans of northern european descent, had to deal with a combination of high taxes, conscription, extreme social pressure to conform, and daily paranoia about communism and nuclear war. And for the rest of us, it was downright awful.

The good side of the 50s was the strong family structure (unless your family were alcoholics or abusers anyway), being active in the community, and generally high sense of duty and patriotism. Yet there was a lot of negatives as well.

Family dysfunction was a very real thing back then and usually covered up. People pretended all was fine and their father wasn't beating them or their parish priest wasn't groping them or their spouse wasn't doing the milkman on the side.

>get a divorce? what will the neighbors say
>Father Connally can't possibly be molesting you, that's only bad people who hang out in dark alleys at night
>counseling? what's that?

Sure, TV sitcoms showed couples sleeping in separate beds, but my mother was born four months after my grandparents got married. And my grandmother was a grown adult, had she been a teenager, she would have disappeared for a month to "visit" her elderly great aunt in North Dakota who was on her deathbed (also I should add that one great aunt of mine was a nurse back then and performed illegal abortions).

Struggling with colonies

If Leave It To Beaver was a realistic depiction of a 1950s family, it would look like this:

Ward: Alcoholic, beats his sons. Does his secretary. Belongs to a WASP country club--Jews, Catholics, etc fuck off. Lives in a neighborhood that doesn't allow anyone but WASPs in it. Drives drunk.
June: Has an affair with Larry Mondello's dad. Addicted to Nembutal and diet pills. Belongs to a woman's club that also excludes non-WASPs. Drives while high on pills.
Ward: Pretends to like girls because he can't let the community know the truth.
Beaver: The spoiled brat younger child. Wally hates him and tries to make him suffer for it. Has been molested by his Little League coach and Scoutmaster, but they've threatened to kill him and his parents if he tells. Also tortures and kills small animals for fun.

dealing with chinkoid communist

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It depends on who you were. If you were white and male, it was quite good for you. If you were black, life was harder. I don't think a black family would have been welcomed in Beaver's neighborhood. Many places had restrictive covenants prohibiting blacks from buying homes in certain places. If you were black and lived in the South, life would have been even worse. Jim Crow laws, the constant threat of being assaulted or killed if you made eye contact with a white woman, "colored" drinking fountains, segregated schools were the law of the land, certain places you couldn't eat at, life in the 1950s wasn't all fun and games, especially if you weren't white, or even male in some cases.

The thing is, blacks who fought in WWII did not get the same opportunities as their white counterparts. They served in a segregated Army and although the GI Bill covered them, the amount of job opportunities available to a black man was considerably smaller in any part of the country, not just the South.

A lot of housing developments excluded blacks from living in them. Black veterans had to live in poorer, dumpier neighborhoods with worse schools. These regions did not increase in value as the subdivisions offered to whites did, but instead remained at the same price.

We could go on and on for many posts about the unequal state of American society back then. For one thing, black music was sold as "race records", often not played on white radio, and stolen by white musicians of questionable talent like Pat Boone and repackaged into something safe and milquetoast that wouldn't scare white parents.

Was life for blacks in the 50s really as nightmarish as you've heard? Most of the country outside the South was not segregated and quality of life for blacks was improving by leaps and bounds.

As for housing discrimination, I'm not sure how really important that was. If African Americans could get a reasonable decent job and buy a house (in a black community), they were probably somewhat satisfied. Yes, I'm sure that none of them were happy that they couldn't choose to buy where they wanted. But the fact that they could at least participate in the American dream, have a job, and afford to buy a house, was probably good enough for most.

Are you saying I wouldn't acknowledge that, or is this another one of those whites only things like

Yes it was and anyone who says otherwise is a liar. Blacks had:

>worse and lower paying jobs
>worse schools
>could only live where whites decreed you could live
>tons of jobs were not available to you
>in the South, you couldn't vote and had segregated pools, restaurants, movie theaters, drinking fountains, etc and even being suspected of wanting to get with a white woman could result in you being brutally murdered

DDT was sprayed around wantonly in those days and nobody thought anything of it. Everything was marinated in toxic chemicals.

The Cuyahoga River Fire in 1969 is cited as one of the big catalysts behind the environmentalist movement, but people often fail to realize that the river had caught fire at least 13 times before that, the biggest blaze being in 1952. None of them made national headlines until the 60s.

From what my relatives have told me about the 50s:

>separate water coolers and bathrooms even in workplaces
>buses had a separate set of doors on the back--guess why?
>why did movie theaters have balconies? Yep, blacks even had their own separate entrance
>the words "black" or "colored" weren't really used yet, instead try another word that starts with the letter N
>if a black man spoke to a white guy, he had to bow his head and say "Yes sir" or "No sir"
>and don't even think about talking to a white woman--are you suicidal?
>white guy murders a black guy--slap on the wrist, maybe pay a fine
>black guy murders a white guy--off to death row with you

Continued:

>gotta love those coathanger abortions--nobody talked about them, but my grandfather knew a few classmates who got them, at least one girl died
>summers were miserable without air conditioning
>four party phone lines
>doctors still made house visits in those days but medical care was still fairly medieval without many of the medicines or surgical procedures available today
>and then came Vietnam
>the National Guard and Coast Guard were a good way to get out of it since unlike today they weren't sent overseas
>going to college or getting married would also put you lower down on the draft list
>or else hide out in Canada

>try another word that starts with the letter N
Naggers?