By the 80’s it was already in full reactionary swing, what with Solidarnoc and all. So did USSR, mind you, especially after 1985 and Perestroika. But even before that, the socialist project was losing steam.
So in short, there was communist themed windows dressing, but the system was moving away from building socialism.
This further reaffirms my long standing belief that people who lived through socialism in Eastern Europe and disliked are almost entirely remembering the revisionists dismantling of socialism and not real socialism of the Stalin era, which I saw you have pointed out too
By the 80’s it was already in full reactionary swing, what with Solidarnoc and all. So did USSR, mind you, especially after 1985 and Perestroika. But even before that, the socialist project was losing steam.
So in short, there was communist themed windows dressing, but the system was moving away from building socialism.
This further reaffirms my long standing belief that people who lived through socialism in Eastern Europe and disliked are almost entirely remembering the revisionists dismantling of socialism and not real socialism of the Stalin era, which I saw you have pointed out too