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- #51
Originally posted by ah_19
The world isnt so simple
my dad grew up in a communist state
it was strict in its laws, but everyone was fed, everyone was safe, everyone was educated, and my dad would still prefer it to any system he has lived under since. What Tito achieved in yogoslavia was perhaps more than any western leader has achieved for their nation. For the longest time in known balkan history there was peace, prosperity and hapiness. Look what happened when "demoracy" took over.....
for the record, i oppose communism, but perhaps you can open your eyes a little
People were fed? Maybe if you were a party member.
Thousands of people starved. Many did. People were killed because they were seen as enemies.
Mu uncle was 15 and he was interned for 25 years and tortured. The reason? A member of his family escaped from Albania.
Ask yourself why anyone wasnt allowed to leave Albania?
Ask yourself why my parents werent able to coomuncate with their relatives, their mothers, their brothers for 50 years?
Ask why my grandmother at the age of 75 was interned in a Labour camp and forced to in the fields for 14 hours a day seven days a week?
People lined up for 3 hours a day to get corn bread which they could hardly eat but did so because it was better than starving.
Dogs were ordered to be killed so they couldnt warn people about spies and informers creeping around their houses.
If this is the communism your Dad liked then one can only wonder why. I suppose there is an obviousd answer. He was privileged under the system.
Open my eyes a little? I would rather close the eyes of all the people who did this to my family and my parents' country.
Anyone who praises communism was either prvivileged and sucking the blood of the workers more than any capatilist, or is mentally unbalanced.
Take your pick.