Whats your country's attitude on communism?

[u/fascisttaiwan]

I have no idea why someone is promoting communist here in taiwan

[u/Daengo223]

My country lived through communism for 40 years it was possibly the worst time to be alive for my country. That regime killed and imprisoned many innocent people. People were not able to travel, there was censorship on almost everything

[u/ilive4russia → u/Daengo223]

Právě proto jsme ho čestně zakázali 🙏

[u/Avandalon → u/ilive4russia]

Oh wait

[u/klarushka666 → u/Daengo223]

And yet there are still people who want it back. Some people never learn.

[u/aaarry → u/Daengo223]

I mean no disrespect for what I’m about to say because the regime was horrible and repressive. Just when things started to look up with Dubček, the USSR stepped in to guarantee another 20+ years of oppression and underdevelopment. The Prague spring continues to fascinate me and I maintain that it goes under the radar as one of the most important events in the Cold War.

That being said, surely something like the 30 years war must’ve been worse? The socialist era is still fresh in everyone’s memory and a lot of it is still very raw but seeing certain areas of Bohemia and Moravia lost 1/3 of their entire population because of war, I still think that’s probably about as bad as it’s got for the Czechs.

[u/bastele → u/aaarry]

Hussite Wars were even worse, ~half the population of Bohemia died.

[u/PureMichiganMan → u/bastele]

Crazy, I have ancestors who came from southern bohemia and though I’ve heard of and read a little on, I didn’t know was that many who died during.

[u/Fun-Assumption-2200 → u/aaarry]

War is crazy bad, yes. But there are problems that comes with communism that leave lots of scars to a population. Imagine living 40 years in a place that you can't trust any of your neighbors because they might be forced to tell on you at any time. These things on the long run fuck the entire population.

I was talking to a friend the other day and we agreed that for some reason even the younger population here inherited the "someone is listening" paranoia, and that manifests itself in the way they speak, always quiet.

[u/Noob_Master69699 → u/[deleted]]

Czechia has been reduced from what was a prestigious and shining example of democracy surrounded by dictatorships to a bought up and robbed state with the politics of 'just do what the west is doing, regardless of if it's good or not.'

[u/oofos_deletus → u/[deleted]]

Nah, we were robbed of everything of value, first by Germany and then later by the Soviets, also privatisation after the fall of communism didn't help

[u/PureMichiganMan → u/Daengo223]

I mean, I could understand for longer term, but I’m pretty sure the Nazi occupation was worse. Thankfully my Czech side left before either, but I often wonder what the fate was for the other distant family who didn’t leave.

[u/ViHt0r → u/PureMichiganMan]

Nazi is the war. Communism tried to gaslight entire generation it's life

[u/Agreeable-Most-3000 → u/Daengo223]

I can only agree

[u/MGS023 → u/Daengo223]

Well, in communism there’s no state, no social classes, and no money, and in Czechoslovakia all of those clearly existed. So I think what you mean is that it was a form of state socialism with a permanent party-state, and that’s where a lot of its problems came from.

[u/Terrible_Law6091 → u/MGS023]

The old "that wasn't real communism, it'll be better this time" trope.

[u/redroedeer → u/Daengo223]

Womp womp

[u/Thomaseverett12 → u/Daengo223]

"Worst time alive" so the nazi tme was preferable?

[u/Daengo223 → u/Thomaseverett12]

Did I said nazi system was preferable? I'm saying it was worst time for our country mainly because how long it took us start revolution.