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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

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.

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

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.