I had some conversations recently with someone who grew up in socialist Romania and fled to Germany as a young adult. I still don't understand what they found so bad about life in Romania. The family had more than they needed: a farm, plentiful food, accessible education and health care. But they fled because it was too "oppressive" and "authoritarian", whatever that meant in this person's life I don't know. Whereas in Germany they had nothing, and had to work incredibly hard just to get an apartment and low wage job.