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I always find interesting to read comments from people who actually lived in the former eastern block countries, like the DDR. Most of what you can read about s
by severino 8y ago
I always find interesting to read comments from people who actually lived in the former eastern block countries, like the DDR. Most of what you can read about socialism in english-speaking communities like this one comes only from people who knew about socialism from television or films.
- onetimemanytime 8y agoI assure you that I don't need to read about "socialism" anywhere, grew up in it. And it was even worst than East Germany. What people need to understand is that the state had the hammer and the nail, you had no recourse. They had a thousand options to force you to do whatever they wanted to; including to rat on your family members. If you did something "subversive" your entire extended family suffered, and you were blamed by them too.
- severino 8y agoI know, although I don't think prosecuting dissidents was invented by the 20th century socialists. By the way, may I know which was that place you grew up in?
- ItsMe000001 8y agoSo just like the US today, for example when you become the victim of asset forfeiture. The very first time I visited the US a few years after German reunification after two and a half months on the road (literally) my final thought was "beautiful, but what a police state". Yes, the "free" US of A. I chose to live there later - a contradiction? Not really, it was a compromise I was willing to make, up to a point - I did return to Europe in the end when I could have stayed, a Green Card was possible.