Since you care oh so much about what other people think, particularly from the people that actually lived in communism, you will 100% change your view if the majority of them have a positive opinion right? Yes? Yessssss? (I doubt it, but let's get some real data in here shall we?)
Reflecting back on the breakup of the Soviet Union that happened 22 years ago next week, residents in seven out of 11 countries that were part of the union are more likely to believe its collapse harmed their countries than benefited them. Only Azerbaijanis, Kazakhstanis, and Turkmens are more likely to see benefit than harm from the breakup. Georgians are divided.
A remarkable 72% of Hungarians say that most people in their country are actually worse off today economically than they were under communism. Only 8% say most people in Hungary are better off, and 16% say things are about the same. In no other Central or Eastern European country surveyed did so many believe that economic life is worse now than during the communist era. This is the result of almost universal displeasure with the economy. Fully 94% describe the country’s economy as bad, the highest level of economic discontent in the hard hit region of Central and Eastern Europe. Just 46% of Hungarians approve of their country’s switch from a state-controlled economy to a market economy; 42% disapprove of the move away from communism. The public is even more negative toward Hungary’s integration into Europe; 71% say their country has been weakened by the process.
The most incredible result was registered in a July 2010 IRES (Romanian Institute for Evaluation and Strategy) poll, according to which 41% of the respondents would have voted for Ceausescu, had he run for the position of president. And 63% of the survey participants said their life was better during communism, while only 23% attested that their life was worse then. Some 68% declared that communism was a good idea, just one that had been poorly applied.
Glorification of the German Democratic Republic is on the rise two decades after the Berlin Wall fell. Young people and the better off are among those rebuffing criticism of East Germany as an “illegitimate state.” In a new poll, more than half of former eastern Germans defend the GDR.
Roughly 28 percent of Czechs say they were better off under the Communist regime, according to a poll conducted by the polling institute SC&C and released Sunday.
The majority of Russians polled in a 2016 study said they would prefer living under the old Soviet Union and would like to see the socialist system and the Soviet state restored.
The claims you have read in reddit comments are almost always made by Americans, whose brains are riddled with red scare brainworms and are completely devoid of any knowledge or understand of what the left thinks in Europe, because Americans do not have a left.
Let's end on something a bit more scientific than polls of people's feelings:
In 28 of 30 comparisons between countries at similar levels of economic development, socialist countries showed more favorable PQL outcomes.
I think that should just about cover it all. I don't think any of this will change your mind because you're clearly ideologically committed to your anticommunist brainworms, but someone with more intelligence and less stubbornness might happen by that has fewer personal failings.
I can't find it right now but Ghodsee regular brings up in interviews that a (I think) World Bank study of post re-united Germany showed that unification was so disadvantageous to the former GDR that years later the population's children were stunted in height at levels typically found in countries that experienced famine, or something like that.
Since you care oh so much about what other people think, particularly from the people that actually lived in communism, you will 100% change your view if the majority of them have a positive opinion right? Yes? Yessssss? (I doubt it, but let's get some real data in here shall we?)
7 out of 11 countries believe the end of the USSR harmed their countries rather than benefited them
Hungary: 72% of Hungarians say they are worse off today economically than under communism
Romania: 63% of the survey participants said their life was better during communism
Germany: more than half of former eastern Germans defend the GDR
28 percent of Czechs say they were better off under the Communist regime
81% of Serbians believe they lived best in Yugoslavia
Majority of Russians
The claims you have read in reddit comments are almost always made by Americans, whose brains are riddled with red scare brainworms and are completely devoid of any knowledge or understand of what the left thinks in Europe, because Americans do not have a left.
Let's end on something a bit more scientific than polls of people's feelings:
Socialist countries objectively provide a better quality of life to their populations than capitalist countries when compared at an equal level of development
I think that should just about cover it all. I don't think any of this will change your mind because you're clearly ideologically committed to your anticommunist brainworms, but someone with more intelligence and less stubbornness might happen by that has fewer personal failings.
Drops mic
I can't find it right now but Ghodsee regular brings up in interviews that a (I think) World Bank study of post re-united Germany showed that unification was so disadvantageous to the former GDR that years later the population's children were stunted in height at levels typically found in countries that experienced famine, or something like that.