If they were slaves they wouldn’t have to get any pay.

Paying them the same as in my country would be worth much more there. Anyway, might as well produce locally and have less shipping costs when they’d demand the same anyway.

And another factor for outsourcing work is simply that noons wants to do that work here. How does communism solve that? By forcing people to do it anyway?

What about not enslaving people?

And of course people in weaker economies get paid less, they also need less since everything is cheaper.

I’m not saying that was good either, but middle European countries started with a similar situation and got much farther. I recognise the USSR as a lesser evil than tsarist Russia, but that doesn’t mean it’s good. More like an upgrade from 2/10 to 4/10 while other countries went paths that lead to 8/10

Siding against colonialism: I guess its not colonialism when you’re colonialising your neighbouring countries and using your military to keep them in line / end liberation movements by force?

Siding against national socialism: At first they collaborated to take Poland together, and they made a deal to not attack each other. Only after Hitler broke that deal and attacked, forcing them to fight them, the USSR turned against Nazi-Germany.

… and more?

ad 1.: much worse than in western counterparts

ad 2.: my great grandfather was sent to a gulag for criticising the DDR’s government

ad 3.: another great grandfather didn’t do anything except being an officer in the Hungarian military, so he got killed in the communist revolution (1956)

DDR 1953

Hungary 1956 (fighting for democracy and freedom), peaceful student protest was shot at, police and Hungarian army supported the protesters, they got a new president who promised multiple parties and free elections, as well as leaving the Warsaw pact. The USSR sent tanks to end the revolution by killing protesters, the new president was killed too, many people in the military (doesn’t matter if they supported joining the movement for freedom and democracy or wanted to stay in the USSR) got killed.

Prague 1968 peaceful movement for human rights and basic freedoms -> USSR sent troops to end it

What if you were one of the unfortunate ones who simply got starved? If you criticised the government, or if someone simply accused you of being against the system? What if you weren’t even against the system but simply had a higher position (for example in the military, or as a politician) before your country was made part of the USSR? What about the huge lanes in front of grocery stores when they got new food?

Why were there such huge protests, and why did they have to be bloodily shut down? All owning class people?

I’m going to university for 27€ per semester while getting free healthcare and subsidised housing and lunch. If I were to become homeless I could go to a shelter for sleeping and food. Additionally you get a certain percentage of your salary (starting at ~80%, becomes less as the months pass, but it’s plenty of time to find a new job) after getting fired. Schools are free and there are basically no private schools because there’s simply no need, public education is good. After childbirth you also get money until you can work again, for up to 3 years. There are regulations against monopolies and cartels. Etc etc.

imo this is the ideal system

That’s what most European countries (social democracies) are doing. Safety net so you don’t randomly become homeless (you keep getting a part of your salary for a while, and even without any money there are enough places to sleep for all homeless people, at least in Austria), free healthcare, …

Soviet propaganda is a good thing

Was the USSR good?

Far less

Remember where it ended

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Walz emphasized Democrats must offer something better, not just criticize Trump.

So true. The republicans are clearly better.

Absolutely. I’m always drinking tap water at home, we have perfectly clear, chlorine-free, mineral-rich water directly from the mountains. One of my favourite aspects of Austria.

Sadly not everyone has great chlorine-free water. One of the most annoying experiences every time I go abroad (for example to Italy)

It’s been obvious since at latest 2014 that the cold war never ended, merely paused.

The leaders you want in a war aren’t the ones you want in peaceful times and vice versa. But when there is war, it’s important to have one of the leaders who’re good at managing the country in such a situation, and that applies to both Churchill and Zelenskiy.

Yes, they both have many flaws. But that doesn’t mean someone else would be better.

We still have the EU as a last beacon of hope for democracy and betterment for the people. Tesla will have to fulfill pretty high standards if it wants to be able to self drive in the EU, which is big enough to be a market you don’t want to lose.

To all fellow Europeans: Please do your best to stop your local russophile eu-phobic parties.

Not entirely true

Substantiv, Neutrum [das]

1. durch gemeinsame Kultur und Geschichte [und Sprache] verbundene große Gemeinschaft von Menschen “ein freies, unterdrücktes Volk”

2. [ohne Plural] Masse der Angehörigen einer Gesellschaft, der Bevölkerung eines Landes, eines Staatsgebiets “das arbeitende, werktätige, unwissende Volk”

1. Many people who’re connected through similar history and culture, “a free people”, “a suppressed people”
2. [without plural] Members of a society, the inhabitants of a country, “the working people”, …