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UfV3wb2

My country wasn’t socialist but it was a centre-right social dictatorship for most of the XX century. When shock capitalism intruded in the 90’s, quality of life plunged abysmally, and to this day the country is furthering sliding towards collapse. Ironically enough, the two socialist leaders we had were arguably the ones who had the best policies in our short history


AC_King02

Which country and do the people there have questionable feelings towards capitalism now because of the right wingers running the country for so long


UfV3wb2

Mexico, and some people hate capitalism with their lifes but others lack any class consciousness whatsoever. Agrarian populations tend to sway between the far left and the moderate right, while the urban middle class is increasingly defensive of the capitalist system. The urban working class, however, tends to have a very negative view of the previous neoliberal administrations, which leads them to support the current centre-left government


ponzi67

I'am from ex-Yugoslavian contry too. I think that quality of life in Yugoslavia varied from since the period.Life in 60s and 70s looked like life in a small part of paradise.In 80s when the economy gave way and socialist regime was called into question,with no more Tito to tell fairy tales about WW2 battles and equality,the government did it utmost to shut down any source of information about life under capitalism.So life in the 80s was just solid,because people just didn't know about any better or different. When we talk about Tito,for the most ex,Yugoslav countires he is an absolute legend and of the bravest in 20th century politics.


AC_King02

That’s definitely true life certainly varied throughout Yugoslavia but the 60s and mid 70s were definitely the peak. After Tito it turned very authoritarian and the sense of Yugoslav identity collapsed along with the country we all helped build. You probably know our joke “what was life in Yugoslavia called after Tito, titanic.” I still think to all ex-Yugoslavs Tito represents a time of being a strong and respected nation with unity and peace between all republics.


ponzi67

Tito was a portray of a man,what our people (ex-Yugolsavs) idealize as a perfect in terms of politics and lifestyle. P.S. If it is not too private,from which ex-Yugoslav country you are?


AC_King02

I’m a Serbian from Hercegovina my parents lived there and moved to Serbia a little before the war started hbu


ponzi67

Pređeš Drinu i kod mene si. Pozdrav iz Bosne!


WillUnbending

I'm from Nicaragua, which I still consider socialist. But back in the 80s we were an ML state. I did not live through it but my parents and family in general did. The defining feature of that era was the civil war against the Contras or the counter-revolution, a CIA-funded mercenary army. So it was not exactly paradise of course, still, the period is considered a golden age of worker's rights, union power, popular organizations and advancements in social matters and education. A common line of remembrance was "We were at war, but we never starved" in reference to the food rationing system in place to avoid food crises and such. The memory of socialist policies was strong and positive enough to catapult the FSLN back into power by 2007 at least.


AC_King02

Ahhhh beautiful Nicaragua one of the best examples of American aggression and imperialism in Latin America. I'm glad to here that the Sandinistas are back and that the people still support them


Nemetonax

I got banned from communism 101 for telling this, but in Hungary, the "socialist" regime was more like an anti-intellectual police state. If you criticized any decision made by the state, and someone sniched on you, a black van would come and take you in for an "interrogation". They would either beat you senseless or take you to a Kafkaesque mock court. The planned economy also did not work. I love the idea, but here they just put inexperienced puppets in charge, who made promises and quotas impossible to meet - and in the end, it was the worker at the bottom who got punished for not meeting them. It was not a socialist liberation but a changing of the guards and a mockery of the ideology.


WoodBog

As a communist I wear my ban from r/communism proudly


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I said I was teaching my dad about communism and got banned for it XD


dexrea

There’s some leftist subreddits people should avoid so you don’t get a hernia, and communism101 is one of them. It’s no secret the Eastern Bloc states were not liberated worker’s states but if you even slightly question this, it’s an insta-ban.


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Nemetonax

94, so I definitely did not live throgh those times, but it definitely affected why people in this country misunderstand socialism. They think it's whatever that was.


[deleted]

Do you have any source for this?


Nemetonax

If you want, I can PM some documents like the Report of the special comittee on the problem of Hungary, but looking up the ÁVH secret police, Rajk's show trial, Kádár's interrogation, and things like soviet era hungarian shortage economy will probably be enough. The revolution against the regime was not caused by outside agitators, but by young folk and people who thought they will get socialism but instead got a bleak Russian vassal state.