Mytja
Jedi Master
It would make rather big difference especially for Ukraine if this was before or after the Maidan coup, i.e. 2014. FWIW.Yep, of course it was before the smo, but still relatively recently, between 2010s-2019.
It would make rather big difference especially for Ukraine if this was before or after the Maidan coup, i.e. 2014. FWIW.Yep, of course it was before the smo, but still relatively recently, between 2010s-2019.
Of course workers will prefer socialism. That's one reason why believing that it were the workers who wanted and brought about the regime change is naïve. Don't have much time now to check the whole thing, but The Communists article talks specifically about workers, in GDR and other countries. It doesn't seem they include entrepreneurs, small and big, who would think differently. So not sure about the whole thing. And as usually, it's more complicated than just communism vs. capitalism. There was the forced privatisation and theft by vulture capital in the package, the forced de-communisation that replaced often experienced and qualified managers with new elite's ignorant cronies, and so on... as it always happens with a drastic system change. Same was when communists overthrown tsarism - with all the violence and robbery that accompanied the coup, many people missed the Tsarist Russia.Workers in eastern Europe and former Soviet states prefer socialism
I spend a lot of time in Bulgaria and for those old enough to make the comparison in a meaningful way, many would claim that life was better during the communist era. I was not convinced of their objectivity, but they have shown me, and I have seen with my own eyes, that they have a point.Date of the poll? Exact question? Context?
As it is, there is no way you can get 75% for yes in Ukraine now, same with 47% in Poland, 55% in Czech Republic, 92% in Hungary (?!) and so on. Maybe there are more of such sentiments in Slovakia and the Balkan states, maybe in Russia, but that would depend on when exactly it was done. Overall, it looks to me BS-ish.
And I don't think any real results would have anything to do with Communists' crimes or 'communism' itself. What would be reflected is mostly people's nostalgia for their youth and relatively simpler life with simpler rules.
I spend a lot of time in Bulgaria and for those old enough to make the comparison in a meaningful way, many would claim that life was better during the communist era. I was not convinced of their objectivity, but they have shown me, and I have seen with my own eyes, that they have a point.
In the era of 'democracy', as they sardonically phrase it, a rot has set in to the areas outside of the main urban centres. The villages in particular have been abandoned or deteriorated, and are in stark contrast to photos I have been shown of places full of life and community during the communist era. Simple, austere, but full of life. And therefore superior in the era of communism.