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[–]Realwoman 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I didn't but my mom did and she was super knowledgeable about the woman's reproductive system and she wasn't in healthcare. I guess that's what I'm basing my observations on but I can't think of any woman I know that grew up during that time that doesn't know those basics.

I did experience all the dramatic changes after the Berlin wall fell, well, I was too young for the first few years and to me, that was just the normal state of things, with the adults talking about the past.

But then, I was a very curious kid and I loved reading about science and about pregnancy and genetics, so I knew so much by the time I was 9 and I guess my perception is skewed.

[–]MarkTwainiac 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Nah, your perception is your own. I was simply reporting on what the Soviet bloc adult female students/clients of mine in the resettlement agency I worked for reported in the 80s and 90s. There were/are always outliers and exceptions. Both as individuals and as countries - like Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.

If you'd been an adult back then, you might have experienced the changes that started occurring in the Soviet bloc countries in the mid-80s, and especially after 1990, as more dramatic and profound.