How can we solve this problem?

Polls across Hungary show that they miss Soviet Socialism.

What did you family tell you exactly?

Baltic states (as in Ex Yugoslavia) are even more nostalgic about socialism than the ex Warsaw Pact. Titoism was far more successful than Marxism Leninism tbh. Yugoslavia was the only country that didn't have to forcibly keep their citizens from fleeing.

This. Yugoslavia was pretty freaking great. Imagine what could've happened if it had more cooperation with the bigger nations, or at the very least, it didn't have both sides actively trying to mess with it.

Polan here, explaining why we're a fascist shithole right now would take a whole history lesson, but long story short many of the old people miss the old regime, while the youngsters are fed too much propaganda to know better. Not that they care, they're too busy being pissed at corrupt neoliberal (or neoliberal in socdem clothing) assholes that ran the country for the vast majority of the last 30 years. And since there was no functional left-wing opposition, people turned to the nationalist religious right.

As far as I understand, it's the same in Hungary. The difference being - Orban is mostly competent, while our current fascist government will probably destroy itself pretty soon.

They're all really old so the story's a bit hazy. I can tell you what I remember from all of them but of course I don't know exactly what happened. I get little bits of info here and there on this but we don't talk about Communist Poland much. They're too old and they don't like talking about it. My aunt still gets visibly flustered when she hears people talk about the Russians.

My great-grandparents owned land up in the countryside outside of Vilnus and lived there wth much of the extended family. Many of them, as I understand, were disappeared.

The surviving family lived in Gdansk. I've visited them there. They showed me the bloc apartments they used to live in outside of Gdansk. Very large families living in very small single rooms, often multiple families to a room, while the higher-ups lived down town in the big houses of Old Gdansk.

My grandmother escaped the eastern bloc on the back of a fruit truck traveling across the border between Hungary and Austria which for a time was relatively lax as far as border security along the East-West line went.

My uncle has some stories about narrowly escaping the draft and how his father used his extra petrol rations to bribe uncle's way out or something. I don't remember the particulars. He's been very paranoid and ardently anti-communist since.

Decentralized locally planned mixed syndicalist/market socialist economy when?

I use it more as an affectionate nickname tbh. There's at least two anarchoposters here btw.

I'm not entirely close off to the idea that life in some parts of the Eastern Bloc were better for some people at certain points in time and I'm interested in learning more about what happened in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. All I'm saying is that all the accounts I've heard so far from relatives have been of a corrupt, authoritarian, and impoverished society that they jumped at the chance to escape from.

my grandmother never went back to Poland. Even after the USSR collapsed, she was scared something would happen again she said. My aunt expressed similar fears when the Russians invaded Crimea recently.

build a great wall and make them pay for it.

srsly, though, do you speak any of the languages involved? a lot of their neofascism and liberal anti-communism got imported by the radio from the united states. of course there is a fair share of those who instead stick to tankie narratives and, sometimes, commies win elections but tbs they are not something i'd regard for better than their fascists. they have fascist leftists (agrarian and makhno symbols on the maidan shouting your usual slogans) and they have tankie fascists (pic related). The commie/anti-commie thing in eastern europe is tribal, just as there are republican trade unions and democrat billionaires in the united states.

I wonder what Stalinstache would say about this.