also western libs, sTalIN evillll yOu taNKiE!

I thought we’d retired the pinhead/brainlet/drooling wojaks

Yeah production stopped but we've got warehouses of them still in their packaging. It'll be decades before we go through all the brainlet wojaks produced before 2023.

American History doesn't exactly align with the rest of the world's history.

We just kinda retcon it to make it fit the capitalist agenda.

Maybe it stopped where you live, but there's still plenty being made over here 😛

I've got a mint-condition wojak from 2009. Still in its meme folder packaging.

I am from Austria, "not everything was bad under hitler" was said a LOT by the older generations.

I don't think a single individual viewpoint is giving a great picture about the overall situation of a country.

I also don't see why people think they have to pick countries or ideologies like sportsteams. Just look at it with an open mind and take the good parts as inspiration and the bad parts as a warning.

Inly inside of russia and only at the peak of the ussr the russian periphery had it way worse

ok there fash, now let's look at the real world

• A remarkable 72% of Hungarians say that most people in their country are actually worse off today economically than they were under communism. Only 8% say most people in Hungary are better off, and 16% say things are about the same. In no other Central or Eastern European country surveyed did so many believe that economic life is worse now than during the communist era. This is the result of almost universal displeasure with the economy. Fully 94% describe the country's economy as bad, the highest level of economic discontent in the hard hit region of Central and Eastern Europe. Just 46% of Hungarians approve of their country's switch from a state-controlled economy to a market economy; 42% disapprove of the move away from communism. The public is even more negative toward Hungary's integration into Europe; 71% say their country has been weakened by the process.

• The most incredible result was registered in a July 2010 IRES (Romanian Institute for Evaluation and Strategy) poll, according to which 41% of the respondents would have voted for Ceausescu, had he run for the position of president. And 63% of the survey participants said their life was better during communism, while only 23% attested that their life was worse then. Some 68% declared that communism was a good idea, just one that had been poorly applied.

• Glorification of the German Democratic Republic is on the rise two decades after the Berlin Wall fell. Young people and the better off are among those rebuffing criticism of East Germany as an "illegitimate state." In a new poll, more than half of former eastern Germans defend the GDR.

• A poll shows that as many as 81 per cent of Serbians believe they lived best in the former Yugoslavia -"during the time of socialism". The survey focused on the respondents' views on the transition "from socialism to capitalism", and a clear majority said they trusted social institutions the most during the rule of Yugoslav communist president Josip Broz Tito. The standard of living during Tito's rule from the Second World War to the 1980s was also assessed as best, whereas the Milosevic decade of the 1990s, and the subsequent decade since the fall of his regime are seen as "more or less the same". 45 percent said they trusted social institutions most under communism with 23 percent choosing the 2001-2003 period when Zoran Djinđic was prime minister. Only 19 per cent selected present-day institutions.

• 75% of Russians have expressed increasingly positive opinions about the Soviet Union over the years. Only a small portion of those surveyed said they had negative associations with the Soviet Union. The economic deficit, long lines and coupons were named by 4% of respondents each, while the Iron Curtain, economic stagnation and political repressions were named by 1% each, the Levada Center said.

I wouldn't go back, what about that tankies?

gulags were needed for a reason

You forgot the classic "You don't miss USSR, you just miss being young"

Okay sure I'm not from the former ussr, just from the former eastern block, and it may be most older people you know, but it's certainly not most older people, at least over here.

invariably spouted by somebody too young to have lived in USSR 🤣

yea better listen to people who lived post-USSR and lived through shock therapy who definitely know about what it's like to live during USSR

also I wouldn’t take the word of demented people

hence why we can all safely ignore your lunatic ravings

nobody will miss you

Wow wow wow calling me a fash for no reason aint really respectfull we can disagree you dont have to get hostile :) ill read the articles later but the first link seems to be dead it leads to a 404 when you press read more

you keep clutching them pearls, also seems like a problem with the internet at the troll farm, the link loads just fine here

Fascism is intrinsically tied to anti-communism, because fascism is in essense a violent and naked assertion of bourgeois control against the proletariat.

The link loads but the read more does not as i indicated again no need for this hostile atitute its extremly unproductive and rude :)

Very sorry for the assumption of minimal technical literacy on your part, here you go https://web.archive.org/web/20100407194740/https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/1554/hungary-economic-discontent-democracy-communism

Why are you so mad at me? i said one thing and every comment you leave is rude cmon person you can do better thanks for the link tho what would the world be if we did not have archive.org :)

nobody is mad at you clown

You seem ro be a bit agitated no? Or is all of that cursing and name calling your normal state of being ^^

I love how you just can't help yourself but keep replying here. I guess being publicly humiliated is your fetish.

It kinda is yeah but i think my sex life is unrelated to you being mad

Clearly, the only one mad here is you given that you just can't move on and stop replying. I just think you're a sad troll, I reserve being mad for people I have at least a shred of respect for.

Mkay buddy