HistoryToday, Czechoslovakia celebrates 32 years since breaking from chains of communism

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[–]CottageSamuelSlovak[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

(and yeah, I know there's no Czechoslovakia anymore, but 'Czech Republic and Slovakia celebrates' doesn't have such a nice ring to it)

[–]Theoldsandwich 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A great deed. Who would've guessed that communist regimes would collapse when Soviets stopped strongarming half of Europe into staying red? It's sad and worrying to see that Russians seem to be trying to start the whole circus again. If Putin rigs the votes at cost of communists, then by God let him rig them

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are they really better off today

[–]CottageSamuelSlovak[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Like right now? Argument's getting harder to make by day.

But outside of covid and assuming we are not in middle of fascis overtake, yes. There's hardly anything commies did better.

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the commies were competition to capitalism, our capitalist rulers didn't want to go too overboard making our lives hard and taking our rights, because we might go commie. Not much of a threat now, just china is "communist" and no one wants to be like them, they're pretty terrible. They said the nazis were a bulwark against communism. Really communism was a bulwark against fascism.