Has anyone here ever actually lived in a communist country?

I can do that as well!

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Indeed....thank you!

they'll blame capitalism however all the -isms are either rockefeller or rothschild built.
ftr you never had capitalism, you have crony capitalism and nepotism
it's all lies, only they mix in a little truth, which by definition is deception

Honestly I can see how this would be appealing to some people. I wouldn't have felt this way in the past but after time spent studying human psychology I can see the class in our animal drives. Still I want a society where everything is clean, tidy, and up to codes. I don't want a communism where everything goes to shit because nobody takes care of their shit. Where I live versus an Indian reservation where everything is trashed.

When my fathers step sister came to the U.S to visit from an Iron Curtain country he took her to a supermarket and when she saw the meat counter she was dumbstruck and asked pop, "Where are the guards?"
He then showed her the pet food aisle.

Get on Talk Radio and tell your stories.

I don't support the communist regimes that governed Central-Eastern Europe until 1989 due to lack of all kinds of freedoms, but the fact is fertility rates collapsed in the whole region after 1989. One of the reasons for this is the loss of security and the other is theft and sell-off of national assets. Oh and EU accession actually brought drainage of wealth, but at the same time people are fed the lie they are getting "free money" from the EU:

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LOL that's because There is nothing there.
Nothing is always free.

Basically all forms of government to through cycles of growth and decay then because of human nature....young people always want to do it differently than their elders no matter what, which leads to change for the sake of change, until the change ends up collapsing the system. People don't really know what is in their best interests in the end...they just act on animal drives and urges. Same shit, different generation.

Visited the GDR as a child right after the wall fell. The place was run down, but other than that we visited museums and such, not much different than in the West. I bought a book about German and Slavic fairy-tales and legends there too. They were big on that i think, didn't have much other past-times available.

I have relatives who did
They are terrified right now

Start from yourself. You can affect people around you, trash is everywhere. Sometimes I clean my street with few plastic bags. Trying to pick up trash and throw it in trash can. One person can change the world. Our problem is that we always blame others and don't want to change anything about ourselves. My best weapon is respect, people are not going to listen to a mad man, who hates everything and everyone. You have power in your hands to change people around you.

I didn't live in one, but I did visit East Berlin while it was still Communist. It was very quiet, and no one wore loud colors. In fact the only bright colors you really saw while walking around were the red and yellow on the East German flag. Red was the only noticeable color in an art exhibit that I visited.

The East Germans I met secretly told me, "Better dead than Red." But the West Germans were busy rioting, overturning Mercedes Benz cars and setting them on fire, and yelling, "Better Red than dead."

I enjoyed visiting East Berlin because it was so quiet and calm, but I wasn't trying to live there.

I remember admiring the fact that they had free health care, and everyone was apparently employed.

I moved here in 2002. And I remember how I went to walmart for the first time, it was like a museum for me lol.

My polish landlord loves the US as patriotic as anyone. He lived under Iron Curtain in extreme poverty. He started out in America as a carpenter made enough to buy some land. When his family came over they built houses on the property and today he owns 50 different houses.

Also, you distinctly felt poorer with the money you had in your hand: it was tacky aluminium coinage compared to the West German mark. I had the same feeling when i visited China in the 1990s.

This is perfectly understandable. Everyone longs to feel sheltered. And we were sheltered indeed, to such an extent that when I first visited a Western country in September 1989, it was an utter shock. The store windows along Oxford St., the stacks of exotic fruits at supermarkets... wow! And then, my second day in London. As I walk towards the tube station at Marble Arch, I see a gaunt one-legged man begging, a sign on his chest "Please help, spare some money for medicine". So I give him 50p, turn around the corner where the stairs are, lean on the wall and start crying. Was sobbing with tears. Passers by asked me if I was OK. Will never forget this.
Today, Bulgaria is the same as the UK back then - despair is a way of life for some.
Maybe this is why we're having huge protests as I type. We're about to topple the government and I'm joining the crowds in an hour or so. A futile attempt to revive what was once. Probably won't succeed. The world has entered a new era, new Zeitgeist.

Got to visit family in an eastern bloc country several times during the Cold War. A lot of what you see now with covid you saw back then. Example: going into a Cold War era “department store”. You lined up behind counters to look at an item you were interested in. Different floors of the store had limits as to how many people could go there. The employees, while not wearing masks, all wore these cheap looking aprons in every department, the same color blue as the mouth diapers everyone is currently wearing. The media was controlled in one direction, just like here.

Your friend must have lied to you because USA never interfered into Albania's business. At least not to the extend that it would be fatal for the country. Idk I might be wrong but I tend to believe I know history of my region pretty good.

Many communist or former communist nations are environmental catastrophes. China, Russia etc. Lots of incidents covered up. Watch the Chernobyl hbo mininseries. When I visited eastern bloc nations when I was younger, one of the things I remember the most is how grey and drab everything was. This sense of crumbling from within. It wasn’t clean and modern.

I live in a fascist country

My parents and grandparents did.

They fled the moment they could.


My grandparents told me how communism rose and took hold. They first made promises to the youth that equality and fairness would be guaranteed. That the divide between the rich and the poor would be removed and that everyone would have everything they would need.

Once the communists took power the first thing they did was slaughter all the most vocal and outgoing people (no matter if they were for or against communism).

After a few years the rich got richer and poor got poorer and the middle class vanished. Corruption and top level networking reigned supreme. You had no rights. Not even to food or shelter. When the people complained about all the promises they made that never came true, they were killed. That made everyone else shut up and keep quiet.

Those that could escape and run away, did. Those that couldnt, died.

You live in a beautiful country. People who hate US, should live in Russia or Ukraine for few months. You have no idea how blessed you are.

Truly excellent thread. Thank you to everyone that contributed. Wish I had more to add but thought this post echoed some posts here..

Great. SO glad I just bought a house way out in the woods, with plenty of game and water and land.

Yeah Right ..

Yes, pretty much. It's both a generational divide and a difference in the way people's characters are built. Some people are satisfied with what they have provided they have stability and predictability in their lives. Others are always dissatisfied and want more and they enjoy instability and risk-taking.

didn't at least a million starve to death there back in the 1990s? Dare to not literally worship their "god" leaders, and you will disappear.

That guy is a troll. People from N Korea have no access to internet.

You forgot one.
People who are always dissatisfied and want more and want to steal it from everyone else through lies and deceit. It’s called Communism. Also known as Socialism. Also known as Bolshevism. Also known as Satanism.

I know.

Keep in mind N Korea was heavily subsidized by the Soviet Union until it collapsed in the late 1980s. Communist China had not yet ramped up it's quasi (slave) "capitalism". N Koreans literally were reduced to eating grass to survive until China was able to pumped them back up. Smaller communist countries (that have few natural resources) have to be subsized massively to even survive.