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.

    • @kretenkobr2OP
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      72 years ago

      No as in “claims are all nonesense” or no as in “claims are not complete fabrications”?

      • @comradecarti
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        122 years ago

        No as in response to the question in the title

        • @kretenkobr2OP
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          32 years ago

          So all the mentioned claims are complete fabrications?

          • @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”