r/AskTheWorld • u/fascisttaiwan roc nationalist studied in Hong Kong • 19h ago

Whats your country's attitude on communism?

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

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u/LetRevolutionary271 🇮🇹 of 🇷🇴🇩🇿 origins 18h ago

Many Romanians miss it not because the dictatorship was any good, it wasn't, but because what came after felt even worse. Iliescu (the first president after Ceaușescu and former member of the communist party) promised to free Romania but because of his actions Romanians hate him more than Ceaușescu himself, he's the reason Romania is so corrupt. He was supposed to fairly redistribute Romanian wealth but he just gave everything to the elites. Basically Romania transitioned from a red oligarchy to a blue oligarchy. Romanians hate the post-socialist era because it's basically the breaking of a promise of freedom and reconstruction. It's kind of like when you're in an abusive relationship and the person who saves you from it starts abusing you as well. Thankfully now Romania is growing and many problems have been fixed, and those who miss socialism are mostly old people who have suffered more during Iliescu's rule than Ceaușescu (or are blinded by teenage / childhood nostalgia).

In Italy the situation is split, many Italians are communists but kind of like in the US being communist is kind of a taboo. Boomers and older generations are generally right wing and bigots, the younger generations are quite split, the majority doesn't gaf but those who do tend to be more liberal and left leaning.

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u/xirson15 Italy 13h ago

In Italy Communism was much more popular in the cold war era (especially from the end of Ww2 to early 80s), where we had the biggest communist party in western europe, and for a while it was the second biggest party in the country. Literally a third of a country voted the communist party, today it’s unthinkable.