Originally posted by mietla
What the fcuk are you talking about?
Remember that some of us lived in both systems.
Ask me what I think about socialism/communism. Or read my previous post, my position is very clear. Communism kills not only the individual but it also destroys the fabric of a society. Capitalism works but.... you have to work. So no wonder that some lazy losers prefer socialist "free" bowl of rice than a capitalist Filet Mignon for which you have to work your bellybutton off.
It's partialy true, but the problem is too complicated to describe it in one sentence. People who worked their bellybutton off in USSR had not only Filet Mignon, but caviar too. Another example: look at China. They didn't waste the ideology as Gorby and his gang did, they only have let people work without almost any restrictions.
It can also be viewd from different points, political, economical, social, military and philosophical.
How about such a view: Russia now doesn't have to feed socialist countries, but now it faces the economical agression of so-called "developed countries", or "golden billion" living by exploiting the rest of the world.
It's a popular point of view here, but it's correct only to some extent too.
Mietla, Poland had a very liberal regime compared to the USSR.
Again: both systems have their good and bad sides. I prefer what we have now, I am still young enough to work hard, but many old people who worked all their life don't have anything now. They have spent their lives on defending our country from the enemy - and the enemy is still here.
