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Are you seriously suggesting that people living in the US have it worse than in the communist bloc?

• coldtea 11y ago
  Depends. There are poor people in the US living in comparable (or worse) conditions than people suffered in some of the countries of the "communist block". I know some older people from the "block" (from Albania and Hungary for example), and some of them look back into that era as "the good times", considering that they were teachers, engineers and other such jobs, and now they clean floors or poor concrete in construction sites to make a living. Not to mention that not all places were the same quality of living or freedom-wise. Czechoslovakia for example were in far better condition than Albania or Romania.
  • brc 11y ago
    No it does not depend at all. There are people in the USA who have bad outcomes, for sure. But to compare that to soviet-bloc countries is an insult to those who suffered under those totalitarian regimes. It wasn't just the injustices, the corruption, the shortages or the inability to trust anyone - it was also the fact that there was nothing you personally could do to change or improve the situation. Poor people in the USA still have freedom of movement, freedom of association, freedom of speech and stores stacked full of cheap food. They also have - no matter how difficult - the ability to change things and improve the lot of themsleves and their families. Of course there are people who were disadvantaged by a change in the system. And of course that changeover was inequitable. But the improvement at scale for the people as a whole is inarguable. It always concerns me to see attempts at historical cleansing and ignorance of the horrors of the past.
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