Why do so many Eastern Europeans prefer socialism to capitalism? How do they not realize they were enslaved and oppressed for centuries under the brutal communist regime?
Why do so many Eastern Europeans prefer socialism to capitalism...
Camden Sanders
Christian Gonzalez
why doesn't this board ever get good threads
Ryan Sanders
Only the anglo and Jews benefit from capitalism
Wyatt Rodriguez
Because their quality of life was better under socialism.
Dylan Gutierrez
Normal capitalist responses:
>they're brainwashed into thinking it was good
>they just like being in power
>some nonsense about nationalism or something
>the jews
Luis Perry
>enslaved for centuries
>under communism
Yeah from the 40s to the 90s
Hudson Turner
Because they expect the direct benefits of Communism more than they expect the direct benefits of Capitalism. Most Eastern Europeans wouldn't have access to capital to make it worthwhile to them.
Dominic Evans
It's all political false flagging and parroting decades and centuries of IRL shitposting.
Luis Nguyen
Combination of nostalgia and idiocy. The same people who claim life under commie's was better would be hillbilly-level in America.
Julian Smith
Because they are more redpilled about "Free market" and degeneracy that comes with it.
Also, communism in EE countries was WAY more conservative than the shit EU pushes.
Also, this:
James Perry
Because socialism was good for most of the population in Eastern-Europe. They went from de facto feudalism to a rather modern state.
Jaxson Perez
Why haven't they voted the Socialists back into power?
Adam Rogers
Entertaining is the fact that polls are apparently more legitimate than national elections that fail to elect communists in power every election.
But the particularly interesting thing is that empirical evidence that can be measured, objectively compared and studied, is rarely even mentioned in any of these threads. Things like life expectancy, infant mortality, median income, personal liberties, purchasing power, economic growth, access to commodities, vehicle ownership, etc are apparently irrelevant and gallup polls in a select few countries should be the authority on the matter.
also ITT: retards trying to say how communism was good for eastern europe
Blake Cook
>polls are apparently more legitimate than national elections that fail to elect communists in power every election.
Correct, the rich have more influence on the elections that the rest of the population, especially in corrupt countries like those in Eastern Europe. “Democratic” elections rarely reflect the will of the people.
Easton Clark
>41% would have voted for Ceausescu if he was a presidential candidate
They are right, Ceausescu was the best thing that happened to Romania, he modernized it, got rid of debts and educated the plebs
Asher Robinson
Ah, yes, the rich have the influence over who people will vote in parliamentary elections. You go to the poll and when you try to vote for your candidate a rich person shows up and steals your ballot and switches your vote.
However taking a poll confuses the rich man, and you are free to answer as you please
t. retarded communists that allege the rich are brainwashing people but the fact most of the population grew up in a single party state with a state propaganda machine controlled by the communist party could in no way brainwash people
Christopher Bennett
>Things like life expectancy, infant mortality, median income, personal liberties, purchasing power, economic growth, access to commodities, vehicle ownership
None of these things are objectively good. If the majority of people believe that they were better off under command economy than they are currently under market economy, then it must be true.
Hunter Davis
>objectively measured things are not good
>it's how people feel in gallup pools is what really matters
And the rich are brainwashing everyone and that's why communist never win elections. The end.
Ethan Barnes
>Ah, yes, the rich have the influence over who people will vote in parliamentary elections. You go to the poll and when you try to vote for your candidate a rich person shows up and steals your ballot and switches your vote
How retarded do you have to be to think that private campaign financing has no effects on the results of elections?
Ayden Young
>objectively measured things are not good
Correct, you cannot objectively how good something is
Benjamin Morris
*objectively measure
David Garcia
Nazis are more popular in EE than communism.
Jacob Miller
It wasn't 'good' but nothing is good in Eastern Europe. It was better than militant reactionaries and fascist.
Adam Wood
>here let me prove something about parliamentary elections in eastern europe
>by posting an article about 'testing theories of american politics'
You're retarded and should be treated as such.
I can, very easily. Infant mortality>infant mortality now can be objectively measured unless you believe it's not a good thing that less infants die.
Democracy and capitalism seem pretty good, especially in places like Poland, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Estonia, Croatia, etc. Hm, maybe if this was tried 60 years ago instead of communism...
All those countries have recorder higher growth, median incomes, higher average life expectancy, smaller infant mortality, greater vehicle ownership, etc than in any period during communism, moreover their growth recorder in the past 30ish years is greater than at any point in modern history. And there are practically 0 cases of people disappearing over the night because they've been involved in "political dissent".