Right. But bananas aren't a brand. Nor jeans. Yet there were still none.

And there was no decent drink with a communist brand that tasted remotely close. Every available drink was absolute shit. As a kid I'm not gonna care about a communist utopia, I'm gonna care that Coke tastes nice, I'm 6, and nothing I find anywhere tastes remotely as good.

As for sanctions, no, as a communiest sympathizer, you should probably read Kruschev's biography made from his tape recordings. He deals extensively with importing foreign goods and the problems he had.

tl;dr foreign currency, not sanctions. If you don't make things other countries wanted, they won't pay you, so you have none of their money to buy the things they make.

That's why a lot of commie countries (second world) exported raw materials to the first world and there was interest in their manufactured goods only from the third world. Why buy eastern european Z80 clone automations and PLCs when their productions can't even match your demands?

Let alone the problems DDR had with their silicon fabs and Z80 clones (made after USSR clones).

But sure, attack the brand, not the idea i'm spelling out.

If there was no Coke, then I wouldn't have had the displeasure of not having Coke. Nice take, let everybody suffer for the common good.

Your study is literally saying that deindustrialization was an indirect cause of more direct social causes

Both countries experienced deindustrialisation, but social and economic policies have offset Hungary’s more immense industrial employment loss. The results are relevant to health crises in other regions, including the deaths of despair plaguing the American Rust Belt

I didn't "get my life" amigo, I was six when communism fell. I got two hours of TV, cold winters with centealized heating cut out, rolling blackouts. I don't regret that.

I don't think it's unfair to not want to suffer through a shit life. I don't think a lack of viable products (thus, deindustrialization once you can't compete) is a cause of mortality, but a consequence. If your country built wooden train toys while the imperialist pigs rolled with the TGV, of course they also worked on extending your lifespan.

And they probably made CNC machines to make nice wooden train toys too, instantly, unlike your shitty handmade ones. So of course you can't even export them. And of course you have no chance of making CNC machines either, since you had no viable precision mechanics industry or cheap computers.

I don't think the rich should suffer because I don't have it as good.as them. Fuck em, there always were rich people.

And while I don't like rich people, the idea that everybody should return to communism and suffer through my very bleak childhood, simply so nobody has better things is silly.

That's a cult promising redemption. That's Guyana, or Élan school. Suffer now for better things later. We all suffer.