There is always this claim going around that Eastern European State Socialisms were bad and there were many negative things.

It is always the same, political camps, atrocities, people robbed of even little property they had, shortages of stockings and proper medical care, and so on.

Was it really that bad? What are these claims based on? Are they all complete fabrications? I know that political camps did exist, it is a necessary step in fighting counterrevolution.

  • @cfgaussian
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    132 years ago

    Mix of fabrications and extreme exaggerations/misrepresentations.

    • @kretenkobr2OP
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      32 years ago

      OK, what were simply exaggerated, with no misrepresentation or fabrication?

      • Fiona (she/her)🏳️‍⚧️
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        142 years ago

        “exaggerated with no misrepresentation” is a weird expression

        Anyway, in Romania, at least, we did have labour camps for reactionaries, mainly Nazi collaborators and legionaries

        Also tightened rationing during the 80s, but nowhere near as extreme as pro-capitalist media loves to make it out to have been

        Ironically it got really bad after the transition to capitalism, but the media either paints a rosy picture of “newfound freedoms”, or just goes “communism is to blame for capitalism’s failures, actually”

        • Bungkarnoenjoyer
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          122 years ago

          Anyway, in Romania, at least, we did have labour camps for reactionaries, mainly Nazi collaborators and legionaries

          good

          • Fiona (she/her)🏳️‍⚧️
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            92 years ago

            Well, in our case, they were held in dedicated buildings near construction sites, primarily the Danube-Black Sea canal. But forced labour was largely dropped in favour of regular imprisonment by the mid 50s.