> Comrade Ivan, how's your job treating you? Is it true that in glorious Soviet Union unemployment never exceeded 1-2%?
>Da. It is true.
>And you get free vodka and cabbage by the government?
>Da. Hard to believe, this I know.
>Wow do I sure feel gypped living in a capitalist country and having it all go to the 1%!
People actually think the Soviet Union sucked ahaha cucks.
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Proof it didn't suck?
Imagine being an artist, musician or having some other gift from God that doesn't make a lot of money in a Capitalist society.
>don't have to starve
>don't have to beg on the streets
>don't have to ignore your gift from God in order to make money for the man
It would be fucking heaven on Earth.
>imagine being a useless piece of shit and have your existence guaranteed anyways
Wow, you really sold me communism.
Just don't express any wrong feelings and make sure your art gels with the party line :^)
>Is it true that in glorious Soviet Union unemployment never exceeded 1-2%?
It is also true that you work long hours, 6 days a week, sometimes over schedule in inhumane conditions just so you can feed your family.
>And you get free vodka and cabbage by the government?
>free
Not to mention the queues where you can spend up to 5 hours and coke home empty handed
>Wow do I sure feel gypped living in a capitalist country and having it all go to the 1%!
Just like the SU. Except their 1% its more like the 0,1% red bourgeoisie. And you freeze in the winter. And rations. And living in constant fear of arrests.
>It is also true that you work long hours, 6 days a week, sometimes over schedule in inhumane conditions just so you can feed your family.
non-gulag workshifts didn't exceed 8 hours a day
>Not to mention the queues where you can spend up to 5 hours and coke home empty handed
that was a late 80's thing
>non-gulag workshifts didn't exceed 8 hours a day
Yes they did. Quite frequently to meet the 5 year plan.
Also gulags were non existent in the capitalist world.
>that was a late 80's thing
Nice historical revisionism. It was constant throughout SU's existance. Good thing they stopped having famines after the 30's.
How do people defending the eastern bloc usually handle the Berlin wall?
Why, it was to keep the Fascist hordes out, of course :^)
No, really,
They got to have something to say about the DDR shooting people trying to go from east to west.
The same way natsi fags downplay/deny the Holocaust. It was either necessary because ebil capitalists did their best to destabilize glorious ddr or by claiming it wasn't so Bad.
> Cultural output is useless
Everything has its place in an advanced economy.
Who said that? You?
>your art gels with the party line :^)
But not too much because then they'll kill you to make an example that enemies are everywhere and they should be blindly faithful in the party.
Too bad we don't have an advanced economy.
>if it wasn't for the 1%!
...we'd still live in a society of scarcity. Communism is unviable so long as work has value, and as long as work has value your worth is solely defined by your ability to get other people to pay you.
If you're a good artist, a good musician, you'll be able to get people to pay you for your services. You won't necessarily make it big.
But never for a second think you have any inherent value except sentience. Your value and everyone else's is their ability to work.
What do you mean by God, comrade? You are a self-confessed Enemy of the People. The gulags await
The main problem of the Soviet Union was its command economy that would gain endemic problems once mistakes started to get made.
Artists, musicians etc with a desirable output for others do fine in a capitalist society. I'm completely fine without shitty artists being propped up to produce """"culture""""
Sink or swim, nigga, and this is coming from a history major who does art as a hobby, which is basically the epitome of what most people would label "useless" in our society, and I get by. Make your art, music, or other "gift from God" useful and people will pay you for your skill.
your facts are bad
what a sad, bleak world it must be for you
Yeah, communism sure was great for artists and other creative types. Their right to self-expression totally wasn't limited at all.
>I create useless bullshit nobody cares about and I demand compensation dammit! Socialism now!
Because in a capitalist society no one wants to pay for your shit except governments to "piss in the ocean" and other retards
wat da fuq is the second one?
It's supposed to a war memorial.
>But never for a second think you have any inherent value except sentience. Your value and everyone else's is their ability to work.
I'm all for capitalism, and i'm totally with subjective prices and LVT being bullshit, but sometimes you fags go full retard in the opposite direction.