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There's something I don't understand...
I'd trust a German or Italian telling me how fucked up shit can be within a Fascist state. Even if someone didn't live during the times of Nazi Germany, or Fascist Italy, the horrid stories do pass from grandparents to parents to children. People in such countries have a better understanding of how a fascist state works than, for example, people from UK, that have only seen fascism from the outside.
So why don't people trust People from Eastern Europe that lived under communism for many decades, much closer to the present day than when Fascism existed? When we tell you that communism doesn't work, why won't you believe us, when we already went through this horrible experiment? Our collective memories of the crimes of communism are clearly much fresher than the collective memories of Nazi Germany.
So why this double standard in how serious you take the testimonies of fascist horrors, but deny the ones of communism, and accuse us of not remembering right, or being factually wrong somehow? It's been almost 80 years since Nazism ended. How do you know you're not misremembering how bad fascism is? How do you know the true beauty of fascism hasn't been muddied up by so much passage of time?
It's barely been 31 years since communism ended where I live. Don't you think we might know better?
@colonelj
For which people?
@colonelj
I mean, which category of people are you talking about? The ones in ex-communist countries who received the stories from their parents/grandparents, or the people from non-communist countries who dismiss the effects of communism?
@colonelj
If you want to argue that there's gonna be a minority of people in a dictatorial regime that have it good, sure, that's true for communism too. There were those in the Communist Party here too that lived well enough. But the average men, the normie, will know better. But you're gonna have a hard time to find a majority in such countries that weren't aware of the fucked up things that were going on in the background. They just end up living in denial while things go down, because ultimately they're terrified to speak up. And people have this false impression that if they don't say anything, the authoritarian state will leave them alone.
