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> This was nowhere near Soviet bread line status. In the Soviet Union, perhaps you had to stand in line for bread, but, at least there was bread. Please stop.
by vxNsr 6y ago
> This was nowhere near Soviet bread line status. In the Soviet Union, perhaps you had to stand in line for bread, but, at least there was bread.
Please stop. this is outright demonstrably false by every account.
It's a nice reminder that someone with a lot of intelligence and dare I say talent in one area can be so wrong in another.
But seriously dude, please educate yourself on the history of socialism and how it's totally and completely failed everywhere it was tried from Germany to Colombia to Sweden it's never worked and every attempt has either resulted in a civil war, a world war, or just years of economic pain to walk it back.
- throwaway4666 6y agoWere you educated in the American school system by any chance?
- vxNsr 6y agoAn appeal to authority how fallacious of you. In fact I’m getting this from the source. My own family lived there for most of their lives. Only left in the late 80s.
- throwaway4666 6y agoWell of course if you're an emigrant you're going to have a poor opinion of it. Meanwhile the majority of Russians have a positive view of Lenin.
- MagnumOpus 6y agoThe fact that there were a sufficient number of emigrants that they were prevented from leaving by travel prohibitions, walls, barbed wire, minefields and snipers should tell you about living conditions by itself. The majority of people in every place where media is tightly controlled will believe what parents, teachers, papers and TV tell them. North Koreans have a positive view of Kim Jong Il, mainland Chinese have a positive view of Mao. That doesn't mean that either of them weren't objectively horrible in terms of competent leadership or morality.
- htfu 6y ago> to Colombia to Sweden You appear to be somehow even more uninformed than they are. In no sense of the word has socialism been "tried" in these countries. FARC were Marxist guerillas and never came close to seizing power, and social democrats aren't democratic socialists aren't DDR-style socialists.