there are americans right now who think their shitty lives are the fault of communists taking over america. the cold war propagandists were so successful that they crafted an entirely new reality.
It's actually maddening how convinced so much of the population in the west thinks that communists have secretly infiltrated every aspect of society (even going so far as to call corporations and lib politicians Marxist). They're living in a very deranged reality that makes them the victim of communists at every waking moment. There's no way it's a healthy state of mind to be in.
There's a lot of westoid propaganda about how Eastern Europe is horrible because of "the legacy of Communism" as if the USSR is like radioactive fallout that persists for hundreds of years.
for real, people younger than me telling me generic pro-NATO talking points about a country my parents actually experienced? Countries that stopped existing 33 years ago? It comes across as obvious shilling/astroturfing to me.
Well I have parents which both lived their childhood through the martial law period, and despite the horrible situation of those times my mother still considers fondly that everyone had a job and a home, and my father hates (I think) every PZPR politician except Edward Gierek and ranted to me how we should've "been more like Yugoslavia who were more open to trade with the west".
I love him but he could use some history on how it was the west who were the ones to close on us and yada yada... But what are you gonna do, the man is in his 50s and PRL ain't coming back any time soon.
They were both young adults in the 90s going through times barely different from the 80s, and then there was I born in 2003. I still somewhat remember the poverty I was growing up in up to like 2010 when things started to quickly improve. Not because capitalism good, but because my mother landed an okay job and we very fortunately living in a house with my great grandmother. So we had no rent to pay. We were very lucky to say the least.
If we were to rent, my life would have turned out drastically different. Definitely worse.
It's weird to me how many people my age (like this guy) believe they knew the horrors of communism when at best they had self awareness in 2008 xD
This pretend game is really annoying yet so many people for some reason love to do it to appease westerners.
there are americans right now who think their shitty lives are the fault of communists taking over america. the cold war propagandists were so successful that they crafted an entirely new reality.
It's actually maddening how convinced so much of the population in the west thinks that communists have secretly infiltrated every aspect of society (even going so far as to call corporations and lib politicians Marxist). They're living in a very deranged reality that makes them the victim of communists at every waking moment. There's no way it's a healthy state of mind to be in.
There's a lot of westoid propaganda about how Eastern Europe is horrible because of "the legacy of Communism" as if the USSR is like radioactive fallout that persists for hundreds of years.
Nothing to do with the neo libereral steel batch they subjected them to.
A lot of them perpetuate this themselves as well. Remember a Bulgarian telling me the racism they had was due to the legacy of Communism.
for real, people younger than me telling me generic pro-NATO talking points about a country my parents actually experienced? Countries that stopped existing 33 years ago? It comes across as obvious shilling/astroturfing to me.
Well I have parents which both lived their childhood through the martial law period, and despite the horrible situation of those times my mother still considers fondly that everyone had a job and a home, and my father hates (I think) every PZPR politician except Edward Gierek and ranted to me how we should've "been more like Yugoslavia who were more open to trade with the west". I love him but he could use some history on how it was the west who were the ones to close on us and yada yada... But what are you gonna do, the man is in his 50s and PRL ain't coming back any time soon.
They were both young adults in the 90s going through times barely different from the 80s, and then there was I born in 2003. I still somewhat remember the poverty I was growing up in up to like 2010 when things started to quickly improve. Not because capitalism good, but because my mother landed an okay job and we very fortunately living in a house with my great grandmother. So we had no rent to pay. We were very lucky to say the least.
If we were to rent, my life would have turned out drastically different. Definitely worse.