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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah it does, because the standard of living in Germany and the Nordic countries is based on the brutal exploitation of the Global South.

[–] endofline@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just compare West "capitalistic" Germany and communist East Germany

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] endofline@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Western Germany regions are still paying to the east one "solidarity tax" to help with the post socialist past underdevelopment. Is it also illusion?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The illusion is that transition to capitalism actually improved the lives of the majority.

[–] endofline@lemmy.ca -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah, eastern germany regions stay exactly where they were - underdeveloped. Even after more than 20 years, population of the east moves to west Germany causing economic havoc to those regions. On paper you can claim almost everything

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

the fantasy land you inhabit sounds fascinating

[–] endofline@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not more utopian than your beloved USSR

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

one of us actually lived in USSR, but do tell me what it was really like

[–] endofline@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, one part in the soviet Ukraine, second part in socialist Poland. Which party of my family missed the best of communism? [FULL IRONY MODE]

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do tell what horrors your family lived through. I bet your family was subjected to terrible things like free education, housing, healthcare, and guaranteed retirement. Must've been absolutely terrible for them.

[–] endofline@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Free Healthcare as long as you manage to survive the queues and not to die in between. Same with everything. Good propaganda bloke, people kept waiting for own flat 30 years and even after that you didn't get it without connections. My parents weren't in the party, the all bought the flat in that bad capitalism.

Not mentioning my father beaten down by prison guards because taking part in students protests. So called "path of health"

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

lmfao of course your family were anticommunist scumbags

[–] endofline@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Whole country was anticommunist scumbags? 68, 80, 82? People were protesting because high prices of groceries, basic products, lack of flats, no work opportunities for educated people. You have no slightest idea what you're saying. My father and mother were protesting as students, but my father's father was in the party, director of the cheese factory and even that fact didn't protect my father. You're really commie scumbag for advocating violence for the protesting people. Allegedly protesting and human rights were guaranteed in those communist countries constitutions

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty much every poll shows that majority of people were perfectly fine living in USSR, and polls show that majorities of people who lived through the collapse agree that life was better during Soviet times. But there will always be people like your family. People like your father were a cancer destroying the society.

[–] endofline@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Polls signed by USSR officials. Yes. you're laughable. Like 100% support like in North Korea otherwise gulag

If you call the majority of the country cancer, it's a clear sign you're commie scumbag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law_in_Poland in 1979 - 81. Whole country, students, workers, artisans were protesting against just lack of basic goods, cheap flats and no job opportunities and you call it "cancer". You summed up your political movement well.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Plenty of polls were done after USSR fell and scumbags who took power tried to prove how terrible it was. The majority of the USSR never shared your sick views. Meanwhile, it's absolutely hilarious how you pretend your capitalist paradise has no repression while UK jails people for tweets and French police brutally assaults protesters every single day. And of course, Poland is going back to its fascist roots now that your ilk is in charge. You deserve everything that's coming to you.