Ok i know theres someone who will come across this board that has lived or have had relatives that lived in a socialist...

Ok i know theres someone who will come across this board that has lived or have had relatives that lived in a socialist country in the past.
Please tell us if they sucked so we can stop the guess work.
So far ive only heard bad things about them.

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Other urls found in this thread:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=69lFpVD7r6o
prolecenter.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/oppressive-and-grey-no-growing-up-under-communism-was-the-happiest-time-of-my-life-2/
counterpunch.org/2014/10/24/freest-under-czech-com
drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eTgjCs2lzpMl92U3JzQ0pIa3c/view
gowans.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/we-lived-better-then/
englishrussia.com/2009/11/17/old-good-days/
englishrussia.com/2017/04/20/soviet-black-sea-resort-sochi-in-1988/
telesurtv.net/english/news/Poll-Most-Russians-Prefer-Return-of-Soviet-Union-and-Socialism-20160420-0051.html
rt.com/politics/brezhnev-stalin-gorbachev-soviet-638/amp/
youtu.be/_1d3Kxx36gY
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Western_Bloc_defectors
youtube.com/watch?v=DlcFn8Ua4Zs
twitter.com/SFWRedditImages

most people from fromer socialist republics have favorable opinions on them
how long have you been lurking here? first time?

Well i did find this youtube video
m.youtube.com/watch?v=69lFpVD7r6o

Yes, it sucked, you couldnt be a millionaire, boo hoo. You never will anyway. So now rent instead of free housing, wage slave instead of guaranteed easier work, own a cat instead of having children because its too hard to provide for them in all of that.

Okay. Russian here.

Great grandfather from maternal side was a Belorussian peasant who joined the partisans during WW2, he was only 17. There is documented proof his squad killed over 100 nazis and I'm very proud of this fact. He was severely wounded and after the war he moved to Leningrad to receive treatment and become a professor. His wife is a former Siberian peasant and also a professor, still is. Paternal grandmother was evacuated from Leningrad during the siege and spent the rest of her life in the countryside, eventually joined by her husband who also fought in the war as a supply driver. They were quite happy and both almost lived to 100 years

Maternal grandparents were engineers who worked for the Soviet Navy, they spent several years in a closed city doing research and for this they received a large flat in Leningrad as well as a dacha. Grandmother comes from a poor Caucasian backwater peasant family and the USSR gave her the education to develop nuclear submarines.

Mother and father were students when the USSR fell so there isn't much of a success story here but they don't have anything bad to say about socialist times, 90s were far, far worse for them and everyone else.

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Do people see Putin as a dictator put in place to stop communism from reappearing?.

I'd rather not turn this thread into a discussion on Russian politics. But Putin is legitimately popular and is seen by some as sort of a neo-Soviet which is maybe a bit understandable considering how shitty the Ancapistan of the 90s was compared even to his rule. But fewer and fewer people are buying this thanks to the recent neoliberal reforms like pension cuts

Good, thanks, the more people see him and oligarchs as a tsar and aristocracy, the better. Just like the western oligarchs.

here are some links someone else posted a few days ago
prolecenter.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/oppressive-and-grey-no-growing-up-under-communism-was-the-happiest-time-of-my-life-2/
counterpunch.org/2014/10/24/freest-under-czech-com
drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eTgjCs2lzpMl92U3JzQ0pIa3c/view
gowans.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/we-lived-better-then/
englishrussia.com/2009/11/17/old-good-days/
englishrussia.com/2017/04/20/soviet-black-sea-resort-sochi-in-1988/
also
most russians wish for the return of the USSR (there's many articles on this so just picked one, you can find more)
telesurtv.net/english/news/Poll-Most-Russians-Prefer-Return-of-Soviet-Union-and-Socialism-20160420-0051.html
most russians believe brezhnev, lenin, and stalin were the best leaders of the past century (least favourite are yeltsin and gorbachev who destroyed the USSR)
rt.com/politics/brezhnev-stalin-gorbachev-soviet-638/amp/
also a referendum from 1991 showed that over 80% of the soviet population wanted the union to be preserved
i also know many personal stories firsthand about how much better life was under socialism, and how they lost so many benefits after the iron curtain fell.

youtu.be/_1d3Kxx36gY

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Western_Bloc_defectors

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Damn imagine that
Having a garaunteed laid back job in addition to all the necessities and a russian housewife.
Not having uncertainty hang over your head all the time just doing what you like without considering if its profitable.
Damn.
Now its never coming back.
Rip.

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Not with that attitude

It took a world war for the ussr to come into being.

but that's wrong, there were plenty of soviet and eastern bloc millionaires

don't worry, i'm sure we'll have plenty of strife awaiting us in the near future. global warming for the elephant in the room, but fuck theres a ton of stuff likely to go south at some point

You know that meme of "80 year old russian vs 20 year old american commie"? It's the other way around.
People who ACTUALLY lived it (cause eastern euro

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that one MAGA dude who makes all the vids were SOVIET CITIZENS DESTROYS LIBERAL COMMIES didn't even leave the USSR because of all the shit he peddles and actually left for religious reasons (he's jewish and a zionist so it's always rich when Zig Forums brings up his videos to try btfo commies who "don't know what life was REALLY like under gommunism")
he's making a living off just being a disingenous fuck, i don't know how he sleeps at night throwing all his soviet countrymen under the bus and creating this false image that socialism is terrible.

The Eternal Zionist strikes again!
Fuck that guy, I forget his name: Vladimir something*

you answered your own question
he obviously is and has always been a venomous fascist snake who never cared about the union or the soviet people because he was an ethnonationalist racial supremacist.

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jaffe? jeffe?
jaffa cake maybe i don't know point is must chose to "interview" the most idiotic excuse for communists (they're mostly uneducated redlibs who don't know how to counter even the most overused anti-communist lies like gorillions starving in gulags).
i swear if you actually put someone like me up against him i'd fuck him up but he would't upload it to save face
it's like when i see school shootings on the news and they only kill a few people despite having enough ammunition and time to kill more and i get pissed because shooting isn't that fucking hard and it seems every shooter is a dumb cunt who doesn't know how to hold a gun cough randy stair cough
kinda got off topic but you know what i'm trying to get at hopefully

disturbing analogy but yeah, redlib "commies" are a fucking embarassment
I've only recently seen the rise of left-wing knowledgeably autists who will extensively debunk stupid claims made in anti-communist youtube and it's fun to see them in the comments cause they bring actual statistics and sources but are outnumbered 1 to 50 by drooling retards copy pasting platitudes about jews and muh 100 million vuvuzela

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True, but holy shit Armenians though

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If only that were true for Glendale Armenians.

ARMENIA GANG

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Completely unsurprising, for Armenians the fall of the USSR meant a string of ethnic cleansings and constant cold war with Azerbaijan

Why are B*lts so reactionary?

CUZ DEM SOVYETS DUN STOLE OUR MUFFUGIN LAND

After capitalism came. They werent millionaires in Soviet block, wasnt allowed. Shitty capitalist system allows that.

Why do balts hate the ussr? is the social imperialist meme true?

lmao are you retarded? There was no law against being a millionaire and there were numerous soviet millionaires throughout the years (both rouble millionaires and even some dollar millionaires), most of them were artists and writers like Sergey Mikhalkov, a children's books author (also penned the soviet anthem), science fiction author Aleksey Tolstoy or architect Zurab Tsereteli.
There were even periods when soviet propaganda explicitly touted kolkhoz millionaires to demonstrate the success and prosperity brought to people by collectivisation.

The old British CPGB even published a pamphlet about it in 1945:

it's just the reactionary tbh
they've instilled in the minds of baltic people that they have constantly been opressed by other countries and now that they're "free" they obsess over their national pride
similar thing happened with poland

The funny part is that the baltic republics had some of the highest qualities of life in the USSR, probably better than in most of the Russian SFSR…so nationalists said "we built this, so we don't need no stinkin' commies telling us what to do". This only serves to prove that quality of life under socialism doesn't matter to reactionaries, spooks will find a way.

Reminder to liberate Mt Ararat from fascist Turks

Most of Baltic's are very apolitical. But I would say more liked and very much regret the collapse of Soviet Union. Meaning 10 percent are pro Soviet 5 against, the rest apolitical.

Hungarian here.
While my parents hated the cold war era government for ideological reasons, they never ever say their lives sucked, neither do my grandparents. In urban areas of the eastern block, people lived genuinely happy and fulfilling lives. Yeah, you could only buy bananas like once a year, and most other exotic fruits were expensive as shit, but people just didn't care. Nobody starved, or was short of any basic needs. Homelessness was nonexistant, kids could leave home for university and would never have to return, since they were pretty much guaranteed a high-end job with a university degree. I'm not gonna say that life was definitely better back then than it is now, but both eras have their own distinct pros and contras.

That's one of the biggest benefits Pact countries offered tbh. You do a degree, you get assigned a job, no questions asked. Imagine not having to job hunt at all. I've heard our government wants to implement something similar but under a cappie economy that's basically legalized slavery lmao.

I think this person was arguing that those things were good, not that they were bad.

Give me evidence of this pls if you have it

GOULASH GANG

i've seen it be mentioned that he "escaped religious persecution" many times like in this video
youtube.com/watch?v=DlcFn8Ua4Zs
i picked this one as well because the clip that they show is pretty much how he always ends up arguing

So every soviet citizen was a millionaire when you include shared through state property?. Yes, but its not the same. They twist it even in this anticommunist pamphlet. Writers didnt get per sold copy, they were employed by this and that and result belonged to the state, there were no copyright laws.

I live in Latvia, and most politically active people are staunch anti-communists, believe in all the state oppression propaganda, famines etc. It's hell.

no, there were individuals who had a wealth of over a million roubles or even the equivalent of over a million dollars or pounds. learn to read.
scorching take
They still made huge sums of money and were millionaires what's so difficult to understand about it. There were numerous millionaires in the USSR, this is not debatable.