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I've learned to assume any movement that asks for "democracy" (in a country that already has elections) instead of an actual material thing like an anti-corruption campaign, reversing austerity policies, welfare, etc is probably a color revolution. Do you think it's possible that pro-western NGOs or other groups played a role in coopting or sabotaging the protest movement there?

Fuckin’ miss him man

I briefly dated a Croatian woman in college, and her entire family agreed that life under Tito fucking ruled. They'd go to work in the late morning, take lunch, then sometimes—if things were busy—punch in for an hour or two before checking out for the day.

Recently, I learned that my grandpa, who flew a B-17 in WW2, at one point crash landed in territory controlled by Tito. Some partisans found them, and transported them close to an allied front line in exchange for the arms and munitions they had. This is against the rules, but somewhat acceptable considering Tito was on their side and they didn't want to risk being shot by the partisans.

Just finding out I have a tangential relationship to Tito made me very proud. My grandpa was a reactionary misogynist pig, but at least he participated in the killing of fascists and sort of helped some communists circumstantially.

I am sorry to hear that it all feels as if it was for nothing. Fuck NATO for ruining eastern Europe. Hopefully things will begin to change in our lifetime.

Communists have consistently been skeptical of student movements because of their naivety and class dynamics (usually petty bourgeois). They fall apart quickly, they lack the capacity to seriously organize with a consistent line and are easy to coopt because they rarely have robust leadership or committees to appeal to.

Incidentally, this is the same basic formula for NGO-based protests and liberal false catharsis protests and even many "anarchist" movements (keeping in mind most self-labeled Western anarchists are not serious and arguably not anarchists).

It's not really better most places, including pre-socialist imperialist ones. Those American student protesters made bad deals with admins and shut themselves down when summer started. Many were coopted by petty bourgeois muslim student associations using tokenizing IDpol, then shut down for petty bourgeois concessions.

my country is straight up ass too. the far right propaganda won, even with that 66% of citizens wanting ceausescu but that's because of that great man theory bullshit, my mom believed that mussolini was good because an old man in italy said so. old people want discipline so they want the great man theory to be true. my family is the most far right you can think of. yes, they even hate the lgbtq, they hate people of color, jews even to the point of using the exclusive romanian slur for them

even the news is horrendous, there are TWO channels that are "not soros backed", which are obviously far right bullshit left and right

also i HATE liberals, we also have liberals and i hate them so much

there's no communist party of any kind where i'm from, either you get socdems or larpers that believe that ceausescu would kill all lgbtq people

all i can say is that i feel ya mate, this world is a fucking mess

would you recommend slovenia for a vacation?

update on the student movement that made a lot of noise a while back. It's falling apart really due to It losing its originally decent focus from having concrete leadership. It unfocused from student demands to parliamentary elections and begging the EU to intervene.

Many such cases brother. We keep struggling

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I have no hope nor belief in Europe ,I hope this place will know Pain

The only people I care about are our comrades in Africa and Asia