You’re unfairly revising the communist history behind the iron curtain in order to make a biased anti American point. People went to jail for reading certain bo

You’re unfairly revising the communist history behind the iron curtain in order to make a biased anti American point. People went to jail for reading certain books or attempting to listen to foreign radio stations. Poets would be under watch, threatened and forced to write pro-party poems. People would get picked up by agents for being non denominational Christians, and would “reappear” again weeks later beaten and 20 lbs lighter. There was nothing resembling rule of law; Justice was meaningless. There was no market and services were primarily bribe driven. (They still are; old habits die hard.) If you wanted to fix your abscessed tooth in the “free health care system” you better come up with two cartons of Kent and a box of Nescafé. It was all in plain sight with no pretense of a “system” at work. Yes the USA has corruption, Justice has inequality problems, free speech is not always free, etc., but the problem with your perspective is that it’s binary instead of looking at the gradient. You’re like “the USA has corruption, and iron curtain had corruption, therefore they’re the same”. That’s dishonest. The USA has a functioning system of Justice that protects substantial individual rights and freedoms. Just because it’s not perfect doesn’t make it equal to the abject lack of Justice and freedoms in iron curtain dictatorships.