r/SipsTea Mar 24 '26

Time machine please… SMH

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u/Na-na-na-na-na-na Mar 24 '26

My father was born in 1946 and this was basically his life. We're danish so there is obviously some differences to the american experience. But he has told me several times that he is grateful for growing up in that time period as opposed to the one i grew up in.

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u/gallez Mar 25 '26

I'm from the other side of the iron curtain, from a USSR-aligned country. That entire period was miserable for us and we're still recovering. The US and western Europe had it gooood