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Love the downvotes on this. Perfect propaganda so well funded. But now it's not commies it's 'tankies'
My partner family lived in communist Romania. They almost starved when the communists stole their fields to collectivize them and then they misused them. Not only that but the "securitate" (Romanian KGB) created real fear between everyone. This was the real problem of communist Romania, not the foreign intervention. Eventually people got tired of leaving in a state of terror and they overthrew the government.
There's a Spanish book about Communism and the Spanish civil war. In Spanish is "Dime quien soy" something like "Tell me who I am". It talks a lot about people that really believed in the communist idea but that got killed because of Stalin being a dictator.
Edit: To all of you downvoting me. None of you have addressed the trust issues that the "securitate" created in the Romanian society. Many pro-comunists were killed by Stalin's delusion. I'm not saying that communism is completely evil but Romania was far from a paradise.
"Communism and collectivization were in the closet making babies, and I saw one of the babies, and then the baby looked at me."
Oh look I talk about the terror regime during communism but users are too busy torturing their relatives to even care about the internal issues of communism.
My girlfriend in the early 90's was a Croat refugee after the USSR got couped. Her family fled so that the newly emboldened fascists in Yugoslavia didn't murder them.
We met working at customer service job for an overseas company. She would always tell me that she works twice as hard here as she did back home; and we don't even get paid enough to live here.
That's a real person with real first-hand experience of the before-and-after of the Soviet Union dissolved. I can text her right now. Your pee-paw's pee-paw in law who lost his plantation to the people can come at me if he wants to talk. But I doubt they're even alive still; assuming they existed in the first place.
Update: I called her, and she's living on Okinawa now, with two adult sons! And her partner seems to be out of the picture...
@[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], ANYBODY, send help! I cannot afford plane tickets right now!
Ah yes, communists, famous for not debating in intricate technical detail amongst themselves the internal issues of attempts at actually existing socialism.
Who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?