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Interesting that in the former USSR states if person is old enough to have lived during communism you will be unhappy under capitalism and the more you lived i

Interesting that in the former USSR states if person is old enough to have lived during communism you will be unhappy under capitalism and the more you lived in the previous system the harder is to get used to the new system.

dsfyu404ed 8y ago
That's exactly the opposite impression I get from literally everyone I know who has lived (as an adult) in the former USSR and its satellite states (including many people who currently live in eastern Europe). Whether they're "happy" or not I can't say but nobody seems to want to return to a world where you can't buy a light-bulb unless you know someone. Many of them often make grim jokes about what that world was like.
- lucideer 8y ago
  Are these people who have lived (a signficant portion of their critically-thinking lives) under Communism or have an impression (mostly from parents, education, upbringing etc.) of what it was like under Communism in the past, relative to current times. I've certainly had the same impressions as you from friends, but most of them would be under 35/40.
  - dsfyu404ed 8y ago
    Yes. I'm talking about people who are 50+.
    - badpun 8y ago
      I know one person who is like that (in Poland). Mostly, she's bitter about how much she is exploited under capitalism - she could only find illegal work, so she's paid below minimum wage, has only 5-10 days of paid vacation and basically no worker rights whatsoever. Plus she has to worry about being fired and starving on the street. Whereas under communism, the state was officially obliged with providing her with job, so there was no fear of unemployment.