> Soviet Union, who provided guaranteed jobs, guaranteed housing, guaranteed education, guaranteed higher education, guaranteed healthcare, paid vacations, paid

> Soviet Union, who provided guaranteed jobs, guaranteed housing, guaranteed education, guaranteed higher education, guaranteed healthcare, paid vacations, paid maternity leave, reasonable work hours, reasonable retirement age, free hobby and social clubs, is 'monstrous'. I actually met a few Lithuanian tourists this summer (I live in Lyon, France). They were quite young (20-ish), but their parents still remember the Soviet Union, and were literally traumatized by it. Stories of Siberian gulags with corpses hanging from trees, people disappearing from one day to the next... From what I can tell, the Soviet Union was a much worse place to be than the US. > And lo and behold - the ONLY country on the planet that kills its citizens when they cant pay for healthcare is the US, what are you talking about? I've never heard of the US government killing people who can't pay for healthcare. Did you mean people dying because they can't afford healthcare? Because that's pretty much par for the course everywhere except post WW2 welfare states, AFAIK.