One argument anti-communists in Poland use is the amount of TV channels we've gained after 1989. No fucking joke, they literally use that shit as it's the sole quantifier of quality of life.
„Oh back then you had to wait for a Wieczorynka (evening cartoon) and now look how many cartoon channels children have!”, forgetting the fact that they shit on them non-stop for being low quality while constantly praising Krecik, Sąsiedzi, Smerfy, Miś Uszatek, Reksio and the like as being actually educational to children.
The wierdest part is how they argue that „everyone knew that TV was soulless propaganda filled with lies in PRL” adding to that somehow, someway private TV stations are not propaganda. The only TV station that is recognized country wide as propaganda, is the state run station TVP. Not just because it is state run, but in my opinion that contributes to the stigma it has with liberals.
I'll also add that I hate it when I praise PRL for what it had only to be blasted with:
„But have you considered 1891 stan wojenny no toilet paper food stamps no jeans no dollars for pewex only 2 tv channels no mercedes no bananas no oranges?”
Sorry for the tangent, just made a connection between how our countries weren't that different from each other yet in the mind of Solidarność chuds we were some kind of backwater.
One argument anti-communists in Poland use is the amount of TV channels we've gained after 1989. No fucking joke, they literally use that shit as it's the sole quantifier of quality of life. „Oh back then you had to wait for a Wieczorynka (evening cartoon) and now look how many cartoon channels children have!”, forgetting the fact that they shit on them non-stop for being low quality while constantly praising Krecik, Sąsiedzi, Smerfy, Miś Uszatek, Reksio and the like as being actually educational to children.
The wierdest part is how they argue that „everyone knew that TV was soulless propaganda filled with lies in PRL” adding to that somehow, someway private TV stations are not propaganda. The only TV station that is recognized country wide as propaganda, is the state run station TVP. Not just because it is state run, but in my opinion that contributes to the stigma it has with liberals.
I'll also add that I hate it when I praise PRL for what it had only to be blasted with:
„But have you considered 1891 stan wojenny no toilet paper food stamps no jeans no dollars for pewex only 2 tv channels no mercedes no bananas no oranges?”
Sorry for the tangent, just made a connection between how our countries weren't that different from each other yet in the mind of Solidarność chuds we were some kind of backwater.