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There is no propaganda in America (thelemmy.club)
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[–] -4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

I was born in an ex-USSR country. You probably just miss being young, not the actual regime. It was objectively horrible.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    No, I don't just miss being young. If you think everyone having a guarantee of housing, food, jobs, healthcare, and retirement is terrible then you're frankly a selfish sack of shit. Nobody in USSR worried about losing their job and ending up on the street or not being able to save enough to retire in dignity. These were not the kinds of things people had to worry about while everyone lives under the gun in the wondrous capitalist system. On top of that, the fall of USSR was one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the 20th century. Countless millions of people had their lives ruined and lost everything, but some parasites got theirs at the expense of everyone else, and now go around telling the rest of us how terrible communism was.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    In my country food was rationed, you would wait in endless queues for hours just to get 1/4 of a bread. There was not much other than bread, milk and some vegetables (meat was rare). If you did not have a job, the state would take you and send you to a crazy big project of the state where you would probably die (work camp). If you had different oppinions about politics, you were basically captured, tortured and then killed. Every second neighbour was an informer for the state, no one to trust. Maybe your country was much better, but I can't understant how you can praise that. I love the ideology of socialism, but USSR was a horrible implementation of that.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Ah yeah, it's so much better now with seniors living under the bridges and scavenging for food in the trash. Also, it's funny how you ignore the fact that USSR existed under a siege during the entirety of the Cold War right after having been invaded by fascists during the second world war and was not allowed to develop peacefully. Then after USSR fell, the west immediately poured a bunch of money into Poland and the Baltics to prop them up which is where a bit of prosperity some people saw actually came from. Meanwhile, go look at what happened to other republics which weren't of interest to western propaganda. See how people are doing there now.

    And sure, USSR could have done better in many ways. It was literally the first attempt at building socialism. However, what happened after has demonstrably been a disaster on an unimaginable scale. And now it might even lead to a third world war and a nuclear holocaust.

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