Has anyone here ever actually lived in a communist country?

Bulgaria before in communism ? Number of citizen

Bulgaria today - DEATH COUNTRY with old peoples...

Crime, corruption, apathy ...

Show me one properly run communist nation! By definition, where the country isn't actually facist.

It is funny for me how Americans call lgbt people and killary supporters communists. There were no gays under communism. Everyone who got caught with it were in jail for long time, or killed. As a Christian my family were against communism, but education and health system were the best. Healthcare was free for everyone.

SO would you call the police (that will use weapons) to defend you and your family should something happen, or are you totally opposed to violence and would willingly give everything you have to someone that had the intention to take it?

Yes, traders and business people are of the lowest kind by tradition, no respect for them. Samurai/Bushi and Ru China class despised them, now they are on the top which is wrong.

You better load up, son.
There’s no place for pacifists anymore.
Pick a side and die with your boots on.

If you were a Christian, you had no rights. You were enemy to the country. There was no violence and people didn't need any weapons. There was no racism, and people actually cared about each other.

Yep, most people on GLP and in the West, think Communism is the bogeyman, which if destroyed will bring an utopia.

Actually, Communism is only 100 years old, and its almost dead now. Its actually derived from Western socialist democracy and the French revolution.

However mighty East Asian warlords and conquerors, such as Quin Shih Huang, Attila, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Imperial Japan, have been slaughering tens of millions of people from 2000 years ago. And they were certainly NOT communist.

So the problems are not so simple to solve.

I would say however that China also has an ancient problem with corruption and this is related to the concept of “connections” and “doing favors”...many corners are cut, many yuan are put into pockets and little envelopes...there is no commitment to a community of “China as a whole,” just your community of connections, your circle and family. This is ironic for an allegedly “communist” society.

This video shows the nature of the problem very well, how people relate to shared space and each other. They lack the “great wa” or spontaneous harmony that is more clear in Korea and Japan:

As a Christian I will never buy a gun or any weapon. I trust God 100%. I'd rather die than hurt anyone. I live in US for 18 years, visited most states and never had any conflicts. Christ didn't have any weapons, why should I?

I meant here in the US. Your post says you are from the USA.

There’s this really weird communist building in Bulgaria I think, like a UFO, that has this giant round chamber, and the Communists all met there and worshipped Satan.
It was on the side of a hill......,

My girlfriend did, and it was hell from A to Z.

I never had any conflicts with anyone since I moved here.

In short: it was not so bad, especially not in ex-Yugoslavia (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia...), soft version, all the rest were on the hard version but still not so bad as it is represented in the West. Right, Croatia?

Dont worry too much about religion. When the 3rd world hordes take over power, they're going to bother only about your race. I dont think BLM is asking Whites if they are "Christians or not" before attacking?

Luke 22
Jesus said to the disciples,
“Let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one.”

Communism is not dead and is alive and more powerful than ever in the American, Western Deep State. The founding father of modern Zi.nism, Moses Hess, was also a founding father of Communism. The Deep State vermin who pulled-off the violent, proxy overthrow of Yanukovych in 2014, and who are also behind the Arab Spring, Syrian Rebels, ISIS, and the ongoing domestic unrest Stateside, are the descendants of the Communist vermin who overthrew Christian Russia in 1917 using the same modus operandi of color revolution and "peaceful protests.". Putin undid all their hard work in Russia and kicked them out and seized their ill gotten gains: this, coupled with their congenital hatred of Russia, is the reason for the non-stop, bipartisan refrain of "Russia, Russia, Russia." They also perceive Donald Trump to be just as much a threat as Putin is to their Communist worldview, which is why they are currently in the process of overthrowing America and all our traditions and monuments with the same modus operandi that was used to such success in 1917.

I don't believe in religion anymore. Because religion is a tool to control people. For me Christ is more than a religion or religious club.

But of course you could paint your room in whatever colour you wished (as long as you could find colourful latex paint at the shops. If not, you had to resort to ingenuity, mix and so on.)
As a teen, I wanted my room to be chocolate brown (I know.. I know ), and as they didn't have such deep brown tint at the shops, the painting guy mixed some oil paint into the latex. The result was ridiculously off the mark but I was so happy coz it was different. The suppression of individuality nurtured our rebel spirit and our creativity. This must've been one of the positive sides of communism

Can anyone give one?

Yes, they, China, are all about family, they have no sense for honour. You, Nippon, have a luck to have Bushi and their values.

BTW, before post from me about "East" was about East Asia, not about East Europe.

What happened with that sword when Peter used it on one of the guards? What Jesus told him to do with that sword? What about first Christians who were killed. I don't remember them protecting themselves. My dad was persecuted in army for not taking a gun, I want to keep it that way. But I'm not against people who have them. Its my personal choice.

Read "Life and Death in Shanghai" by Nien Cheng (1987) if you want a firsthand honest account before Soros took over our printing houses.

This book's account has been verified by a firsthand defector friend.

Communism is a scam
Its marxism with the goal of fisting a pnnzi scheme to strip every crumb of value from the public and their state and create a neomonarchy which will inevitably fail leaving a smoking hole and a destroyed public and nationality whlle the few elites/oligarchs run off to a tiny country with no extradition or concern with the wealth.

The intent is to totally strip, destroy and exterminate all others as expeditiously as possible, leaving total chaos and lingering thought control making restoration of previous normal christian society impossible.

...and here are on this thread again those stupid Christian US fundamentalists with their propaganda again. The ones who knows nothing about the real Christianity and Yeheshua. Always spoil every decent thread.

I am out of here.

I lived in Ukraine in the early 90s at the fall of the Soviet Union. Much of the broken communist system was still in effect. The people told me horror stories and were relieved to have some starts of freedom and capitalism.

Most ate bread, they grew their own potatoes and onions and harvested dachas (5 acre gardens outside town) on weekends and worked government appointed jobs for very little pay. Their pay covered utilities. People struggled to buy bus passes. It was a world of common poor or lower middle class. Government officials were rich. It was filled with corruption. The government officials like Putin took over the government industries. Public utilities turned off in our building all the time. Water had to be boiled to drink. Our hot water would shut off for two weeks at a time, centrally controlled. Alcoholism was rampant. Drunks laid passed out. People put newspapers on the faces of the passed out so they didn’t sun burn.

Many women were Prostitutes. Medicine was stuck in the 1950s. A friend of ours had a root canal with no anesthesia. I heard stories of the re-education gulags, KGB agents taking a fancy to your wife and she had to put out or you went to the camps or worse.

Another part that bothered me was the system control. Listening devices in the apartment walls, neighbors encouraged to rat out each other, families being investigated if kids said the wrong thing at school. People were black listed and removed from the communist party which left you unable to get any of the system support. Those people had no way to make a sucky living.

The people endured stuffI couldn’t imagine. Their store shelves were always bare. Materials and imports were scarce. I lived there two years. I went there as a healthy 180 lbs and came back to the USA two years later weighing 135lbs. I had money but food was still difficult to come by.

Communism is horrible for the individual, even if you are a good commie, there’s no opportunity to change your family situation. I dread this mistake is about come upon the USA and the world. Two countries that won’t be communist any time soon are Russia and Ukraine because they know it sucks.

Its always the same, its one shibbileth piled on another, and the intent is to identify insiders and confuse and expose outsiders, and to play endless permutations of word games to hide the real instigators and the methodology.

This is just about extortion, theft and getting rid of the witnesses and prevention of any defense against it.

Exactly. Communism is just Satanism if you take it all the way back. It’s Judaic in its most raw form and is the idea that we (the tribe) will be our own messiah. Government will provide the tenets of the Messiah and we will control it. It’s why when you read the tenets of Communism it’s a utopia. Once they rejected Christ and no messiah ever showed up, they in their pride decided to create their own human version of what they were waiting for.
And of course this is just all another road to Gd in their minds that leads to failure and hell. The rejection of Christ is the problem, not trying to drum up your own version.

The most terrifying weapons on the planet live in places like your local POND. Brain eating amoeba anyone?

A flock of angry chickens can even make a "brave" dude with a gun run for his life.

Think outside of the box and do REAL SCIENCE.