Sands, it is a bit risky to buy things that have sizes. You may ask their mother about the size if you thin it's appropriate. If not, choose some gloves that don't have size or something else! Maybe you can ask about their interests?
But rock for us had an exceptional meaning, just can't describe it! Some of those bands were literally worshipped here, like Deep Purple and all Richie Blackmore's projects, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Dio, Kiss, Van Hallen, Judas Priest, Pink Floyd and many others... also, we had some difficulties with getting their music so we valued it a lot!
Thank you sands! Music was one of my ways to escape too :) Well, rock music mostly! It symbolized our inner protest... We called it inner emigration...
sands the most terrible thing about communism was the total control. That's why it's defined like TOTALITARISM. They controlled the information, the economics, the culture, your private life, your beliefs, the language, the behavior, EVERYTING! So some people of the West now call us paranoids and "poor things" which is deeply unfair.
Anyway, an important part of the control was to keep people poor, the so called "equal" part of the theory of marxism-leninism (in socialism/communism we all should be equal). Yes we were equally poor except the high-level party members. They went for shopping to the West. Another part of the control was to make us feel guilty all the time. Guilty of everything. So people feared and led double-life like your friend told you. There were people who sold truth and their beliefs for privileges. There were a lot of people who got used to the low standard and lack of freedom. Some of them still claim that it was great that the Party (the only party existing here then, the communist party) gave us some low but stable standard. Yes it's true that prisoners also have some not brilliant but stable standard in jail, no? Some long-term prisoners even get phobia of the outer world and want to get back to prison. So there are such people here too. And thirdly, there were people who never agreed with communism mostly not because of lack of high standard, but mostly because of lack of freedom.
It's a long and very complex topic. Many historical and other factors are involved.
We got through things that people out of the Iron Curtain can't imagine. We survived. Yes we are different. You would be too! But we aren't monsters. We still struggle. And we hope for the best like everyone else!
In the past there were guide-books with sample letters for every occasion like: How to write to a widower to refuse his proposal? How to accept a propose for a walk coming from a decent gentleman? Now there are sites
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ocean there is some advantage about not so experienced men that you can "shape" them in the best way for youAbout younger men, been with two 14 yr younger and to tell you the truth my age and bit older men are better!