Communism from a former citizen of communist Romania

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I forgot, that was other thing, her parents were anti-commie because of the social democrats fucking everything. So as a result, she hates commies too. She would probably vote for Trump if she lived here. The last time she visited, she complained to me for about an hour about how immigrants were destroying Germany.

The best/worst way to answer/troll this people is to say "It's times like these that one thinks Hitler wasn't that wrong". But it only works on people who know what Nazism is about. … It's also not that "cool" long term. More edgy than usefull.

I'm Romanian.

I want this guy dead.

Not American and not a rich kid, but I don't disagree that the version of communism he experienced was shit. You wouldn't declare that every single possible kind of capitalism was shit just because some people suffered under it in a particular country. There are as many different ideas of how communism should work as there are posters on this board, if not more.

This shit is why I hate labels. Labels just make it easy for people to misrepresent your views. They let your opponents skip over the details of your position and resort to arguments based on false equivalence due to similarity of terminology.

Tell us more about Ceaucescu? Was he really that awful of a Stalinist?

He was buddy-buddy with Kim Ir Sen.After the visit to North Korea things got rough.Crazy cult of personality,showing shops on television stacked to the brim with food when in actuality you could only find shitty processed meats that gave you some sort of bowel cancer in a few years.
He was really impressed by what he saw in
North Korea so things took that sort of turn.

To sum it up in few words:A police state bureaucracy run by a political elite that ensured people weren't jobless.Nothing to do with communism really.State police was also spying on everybody.

After the revolution 90% of industry got demolished and sold for scrap.The same political elites formed new parties.

Even tot his day there are no right-wing or left-wing political parties,just a bunch of oligarchs thus romanian people are extremely skeptcial of politicans to the point where they hate them:The social-democrates ,the national-liberals and the democartic liberals have acted in the same way.

Even so,the social-oligarchs(democrats) are always voted in parliment in overwhelming majority because of old people that are treated like shit.

We've been leeching of the EU for quite a while and all of those money again,end up in the pockets of corrupt officials.

Nationalism amongst young people is pretty much dead.

Yes,he was awful.

sry for my bad english

My parents are Cambodian and thought Pol Pot was aight.

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Your English is very good and your post is very appreciated.