At this point I’m more convinced that anyone who claims to have escaped “communist oppression” on the internet is just lying about it
You are convinced correct. Hell i live in Poland and the amount of martyrology grows the more the more PRL is distant in past. And every single time i heard that and i asked for details it came up that it was either completely made up or some incredibly insignificant event like sitting in milita post for an hour before getting lectured on martial law or a day of jail and fine for vandalism.
It's usually pretty easy to spot too, they claim to have "escaped communism" but then speak like a 14 year old American teenager, I find it unlikely that a 50+ year old victim of the Evil Soviet Gulags in the 1980s would talk like that. At least the ones who claim their parent or grandparent "escaped communism" are slightly more believable, though it's pretty unlikely they're giving an accurate story about what really happened to their grandparent's egg monopoly.
You are convinced correct. Hell i live in Poland and the amount of martyrology grows the more the more PRL is distant in past. And every single time i heard that and i asked for details it came up that it was either completely made up or some incredibly insignificant event like sitting in milita post for an hour before getting lectured on martial law or a day of jail and fine for vandalism.
It's usually pretty easy to spot too, they claim to have "escaped communism" but then speak like a 14 year old American teenager, I find it unlikely that a 50+ year old victim of the Evil Soviet Gulags in the 1980s would talk like that. At least the ones who claim their parent or grandparent "escaped communism" are slightly more believable, though it's pretty unlikely they're giving an accurate story about what really happened to their grandparent's egg monopoly.