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> Have you actually lived under communism? Yes, but are you just retelling stories you overheard? > Availability of apartments was really bad, you had to wait
by medo-bear 3y ago
> Have you actually lived under communism?
Yes, but are you just retelling stories you overheard?
> Availability of apartments was really bad, you had to wait in line for 10 years before you could get one. Then start fixing the flaws by yourself
The socialist countries were built on litteraly nothing, with a majority of population being illiterate. As developing countries they did very well. A fair comparison would actually be a country like Portugal or south Italy or even Greece. Waiting 10 years for an appartment is nothing, even by standards in the West. What is the average age of (loaned) property purchase in the West? What is the average age of loan repayment? In some advanced Western countries it is generation and a half.
> The party apparachiks ate the weak for breakfast, no rule of law, no fairness. As the saying goes: everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others.
Hahaha and what do you think you have to do today in many Eastern European countries, just to get a stable job. Hahaha
All those "apparachiks" just changed sides and do the same shit under capitalism.
In my country (EU) this sort of curruption still exists. If you actually need to be told this then I very much doubt you live in Eastern Europe, let alone somewhere not-at-all-corrupt like Ukraine
- jnsaff2 3y agoI'm in Estonia. Grew up here as well. Nothing you said is true here. Not sure which EU country you might be in, maybe Hungary judging by the references to corruption.
- medo-bear 3y agoOh yes, Estonia which welcomed Nazis as liberators in WW2. There are generally 3 countries that have a pathological hatred of Russians - Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland. Im from former Yugoslavia.
- jnsaff2 3y agoOh nice, good old kremlin brainwash again. Something that happened 70 years ago while also forgetting what russians did here at the same time, mass deportations, murder, rape justifies everything. russia still doing that now is completely fine. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdhsPQEX0AALM9H?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdhsPQEX0AALM9H?format=jpg&name=...
- jnsaff2 3y agoIt's not hate of russians, it's the dislike of being enslaved and murdered by russians. The same thing that you are currently doing in Ukraine.
- medo-bear 3y agoActually we were the first to tell Russians to piss off [0]. But just like I wouldn't die for Russians, I wouldnt die for people that have a pathological hatred of them. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito%E2%80%93Stalin_split https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito%E2%80%93Stalin_split
- jnsaff2 3y agoI think someone who keeps shilling for genocide, some fairyland version of communism and tries to gaslight people should maybe check whether pathology could be applicable for themselves.
- medo-bear 3y agoObviously being anti war cannot mean any of those things. I see that uncle Joe taught you well. If you disagree with someone accuse them of being a foreign agent. As usual, people like you are the same as the thing they proclaim to hate. Putin would be proud of you.
- nickpp 3y ago> being anti war If you were anti-war you'd be anti-Russia. They are the ones waging war right now. The war would end tomorrow if Putin would get out of Ukraine. Ukraine would end tomorrow if Ukrainians would stop fighting.
- medo-bear 3y agoI'm not anti-Russia. I think Russia is a great country and a great culture. However, I'm definitely anti-Putin and wish for this war to end ASAP, regardless of final terms for either party. I don't think that Ukranian oligarchs are any better than their Russian counterparts, and certainly not worth fighting/dying for.