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Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho
Yes, and all Americans wear cowboy hats and look like Paul Newman 
It's one of the silliest propaganda that I ever heard and that I face on a regular basis (well need to exclude Ceaucescu's Romania - that was really rough..  ):
THE TRUTH is that those 40 - 70 years under the communist reign were much EASIER to live for MOST of the people!
- you didn't need to overperform
- you didn't need to have any ambitions
- there were no overtimes
- you were always employed
- you had your job, your flat, your cottage, your wife, your dog and your car (well you waited for a couple of years and it was a crap but there was noone you could envy a better car!)
The live has been good for most! Not for me as a person with ambitions I would always be a rebel and probably emmigrate soon but a regular Joe's? they never forget!
Take it or leave it, that's the truth, even the nowadays propaganda is to push the super western performance oriented style of life with no kids / silly sounding job title and bunch of loans and mortgages as the best what you can get..
Nadia is awesome!  |
I forgot to add two ESSENTIAL things:
- FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
- FREE ( and a high level of ) UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
That is more or less kept by the date although there are "private" alternatives too.. what is more interesting is that paid = lower quality and lower demands, even idiots can get a degree on one of the new "private universities" that were started after '89
.. that's for a little off topic excursion behind the "iron curtain".. I guess it's one of my favourite topics..
