Yep. The communist countries were more or less one big forced labor camp. You couldn't leave and, while living there, obviously had to work to survive. For the

Yep. The communist countries were more or less one big forced labor camp. You couldn't leave and, while living there, obviously had to work to survive. For the most part, private sector didn't exist, so you had to work in a government-owned company, which usually paid you just enough to survive. You were beaten, tortured or killed if you protested or tried to escape. Pretty much a XX century slavery.