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Eastern European millennials who grew up under the introduction of capitalism: “I experienced communism and it was awful.”
this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
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Eastern Europeans who have lived their entire lives in the US and whose grandparents fled the USSR in 1945: "I experienced communism and it was awful."
I one time had a goofy classmate in college who did a speech about the evils of communism blah blah, then at the end he revealed he grew up in a socialist country but narrowly escaped with his parents. He didn't say the country, but he had some kind of Latin accent so I thought he was probably Venezuelan or Nicaraguan based on the guy's age.
Then it turns out he's Brazilian? And he immigrated to the US in 2004? Also I learned his parents were some kind of very wealthy con-artist private doctors who peddled stuff like herbs and prayer as cures.
Communism is when my quack parents get arrested for selling fake medicine.
If communism is so good then how do you explain this one Latvian fascist I know saying it was bad? He tells me all "real Latvians" think like him, a claim that I do not find suspicious at all.
Latvian fascist
this narrows it down very little tbh