"What are we, a bunch of commies?"
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I think the greatest irony is that they literally did that to their entire economic system. Isn't it strange that these 'old Soviet jokes' somehow continue to be told despite the Soviet Union not being around for 35 years nd now apply literally to post-Soviet states?
Like clockwork, they will always mention the extreme poverty and suffering of the 90s, after socialism, then blame it on soviet "authoritarianism" or some such. It's so absurd and I have no idea how anyone could believe it.
"This system collapsed and then afterwards everyone was poor and suffering, show how evil that system must have been, since everything got a lot worse afterwards!"
The projection is incredible. It has to be a coping-mechanism of sorts. They keep on shifting the focus to something long gone just so they don't have to face the rot they have been a part of all along.
I think it's more a complete and total and all-encompassing capitalist education, people are told nonstop that all the problems that Eastern Europe suffered from/continues to suffer from was the fault of the evil communists, even 30+ years on, it is still the USSR's fault that eastern europe is so much poorer than the west. People are taught this nonsense as "fact" from primary school onwards and are taught about the "evils of communism" and most just never question it because it is a simple easy answer for why things suck.
Very true, but there is always also this: https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/.
It's an all encompassing education, but I do think partly it's also complicity. The reactions are often so emotional and knee-jerk.
It's sort of like Plato's cave. I don't blame them for all sitting there thinking that shadows on the wall are all there is, but when someone leaves and comes back, and tries to describe the alternative, the people shutting them down and calling them a liar are quite responsible for their own wilful ignorance.