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Originally Posted by Cherry7
Always amusing to read what people write about a society they never lived in, basing their opinions on what their governments propaganda told them.
The best paid people in the socialist countries were often worker in heavy industry and miners, the members of the Communist party and state lived modestly.
Even though the whole of the Socialist block was a lot poorer than the West children did not go to school hungry.
Here and in the US, 20 years after the fall of communism capitalism still fails to give a normal life to its citizens.
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my "propaganda" is my ex GF that is eastern german and grew up in the DDR
but i didnt expect any other answer from you anyways
PS: do you deny that people got put in jail (and sometimes executed up to the 1970ties) for political reasons?
or that hundreds of people were shot for trying to leave?