I won’t expose OP to more of this disgusting abuse by reblogging them. You willfully blinded fuckers might not like hearing this, but I liked walking into a store and finding nothing to buy but fucking pickles and bony pig’s feet even less! The same completely unequal sharing of power, the same unbalanced societal stratification, the same oppression of the common person that anti-capitalists so fiercely rage against existed under communism word-for-word, action-for-action. Here’s the thing, though – the OP wasn’t wrong at all. I witnessed a young user on this site essentially being mobbed for a statement along the lines of ‘reminder that communism is just as bad as laissez-faire capitalism.’ A horde of fools blinded by idealism and rage at their escapist fantasy of a political system getting trashed gave this person all sorts of grief. I’ve asked this before – does this sound fucking familiar to the cheerfully anti-capitalist crowd on here?It damn well should! I saw inhuman regimes finally tumble when popular fury became too much to contain – regimes where social, political and economic power and privilege was hoarded by a tiny elite (the Party members and their families), while the rest of the population lived in steadily worsening conditions. An entire generation of families in Romania’s capital lost sons or daughters, gunned down in cold blood on the streets for having the temerity to chant that they want freedom, democracy, an actually functioning economy! My uncle fled for Romania in the 1970s and was shot in the leg during the December 1989 revolution. The Favourite was decent but also a nice reminder that the eighteenth century is really not my era or my aesthetic. My father still walks with a limp forty years after he was brutally tortured by political police types for his support of democratic reforms. I was born and raised in the USSR and good fucking riddance for the fall of that stitched together monstrosity. I’ve said it before, but I am fucking sick up to my fucking ears of children with zero understanding of what Communism actually meant in practice talking over us Eastern Europeans and shoving their deluded, idealized notions down our throats, when we still see the scars left by Communism. Nice reminder that if you, as a likely privileged, relatively ignorant, raised-in-democratic-societies Westerner, have the fucking gall to talk over people condemning Communism based on their own direct experiences under this system, I reserve the right to tear you to shreds.
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