Comments by "EE Dragon r" (@eedragonr6293) on "The Cold War" channel.

  1. Obviously many lived of illegal black market, all kinds of traffics, counterfeit industry, bribery, official confiscations (meaning theft), corruption etc.
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  2. Well, you know, they never fought against the Soviets after Stalin, if I remember correctly.
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  3.  @terrorgaming459  yes, the comment above shows what "freedom" they didn't want anymore in the Eastern bloc. If they were interested in that kind of freedom, communism was still existing in the Eastern bloc. Freedom doesn't exist for the determinists and freedom is surely not a communist value.
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  4. Yep, and we saw the political Right professors naturally replaced by the communists. Continuously.
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  5.  @Marinealver  today Bulgarians have businesses in Malta
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  6.  @pyatig  nice to hear that you didn't replace anyone with these collectivist ant values of have - nots. DW were asking themselves from where are these authoritarian tendencies coming from. One source is for sure those "pioneers".
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  7. And? They 've reached out to the "free world" or they still were in the communist bloc?
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  8. The only way to escape for some. It was said from the beginning that "the students" belonged to the communist establishment, but they needed the very best to survive their own incompetence. So the best ones still had a chance. For keeping the communists in power?
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  9.  @pauleohl  You would prefer to keep the slavery?
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  10. If you wanna avoid civil wars is a good idea anyway.
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  11. Mummified Pharaoh. It appears on many Soviet marriage photos.
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  12.  @webkeeper  I am pretty sure you are popular on the Ukrainian front.
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  13.  @AurelAvramescu  yes, I wonder when could they learn anything between autumn agricultural forced labor, hours and days for personality cult shows, eliminating exams and standing in line for milk at 6am and for chickens at 7pm. At 18 years old conscripted to an army transformed into a labor camp too and sent to build some channels or palaces and eventually killed or wounded.
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  14. PS Exploiting children 's work was already internationally illegal. And at the end of the regime the army is described as the POW building the Kwai river bridge.
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  15.  @antonbatura8385  obviously it's better the North Korea and Afghanistan now. No colonialism there.
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  16. How to politically and ideologically destroy industries, even Left industries like mass tourism. Forbidding and restricting tourism as a mean of repression or hiding how poor and deprived the people are.
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  17. Yes, and North Korea was always terrible : I. e. If a North Korean student was allowed to go to study abroad, in another communist country, he was never given permission to settle into that communist country. If he married a woman in the communist country where he studied, he had to divorce her if she did not want to follow him to North Korea, letting his family and children behind for ever.
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  18.  @pauleohl  the slavery "help build the subsequent American economy"?
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  19.  @xr6lad  really? I was just asking myself who is exporting the slavery there as I found some right now
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  20. Communists won the war being as you know part of the Allies. All nationalists got defeated. Asian and African communism is a result of the colonialism. Logically colonialism suppressed and repressed nationalism and national politics. Communism is based on ideological lies. But communists came with progressive principles and reforms which were needed at that historical time. And they started to take over. Till Kennedy finally realized it.
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  21. P. S. Regarding the "instant sunshine" and Kennedy...
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  22. P. S. 2. No longer amazed that the others are purging their armies.
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  23.  @midge_gender_solek3314  they are pretty good I must say
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  24.  @antonbatura8385  in the whole European communist block
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  25. And the economic results? Self-sabotaging.
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  26.  @antonbatura8385  yes because there were no discrimination and segregation. They were and they were ideologically the worst, against the meritocracy. Nobody wants to know what I wish for them not finding other democratic solutions.
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  27. Yes, regarding the tragedy of the human control of the species 'number
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  28. Since WWII for many European countries the Soviets are only murderous plunderers. Get used to the reality.
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  29.  @webkeeper  I think you got me wrong : ex- Soviet block are seeing you as plundering murderers. Their present political and military experience it says it all. Some ex- colonies are not making a tragedy of their historical past. Perhaps this explains why not every country with a colonial past became communist.
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  30.  @webkeeper  the people of the East Europe told me what happened to them and such speech has no value for the atrocities they heard about from their grandparents or great grandparents. They are not comparing what happened to them with what happened to the others. I have seen that there are documentaries made with real people about the Soviet invasion and occupations. But it's something else to hear directly from the side invaded. Such speech will mean nothing to them.
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  31.  @webkeeper  you are denying the very existence of the Ukrainian people
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  32.  @webkeeper  my rhetoric would respect other historical agreements. But you don't have new economic information : Germany is alone in this case.
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  33.  @webkeeper  really? What is the opinion of the "Red Scare" Mr. Zhirinovski about this?
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  34.  @antonbatura8385  Some are still supporting the Red Khmers
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  35.  @antonbatura8385  the point would be that we could finally see the dimensions of the genocidal system while the others could hide it.
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  36.  @AurelAvramescu  you said it all by "the prisoners are used as forced labor" to pay for their food and beds. Perhaps you have the statistics for deaths at the channel in the '80s or the Parliament Palace.
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  37.  @antonbatura8385  agreed
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  38.  @AurelAvramescu  well I got news : in one family from their political prisoners 2 of 3 have died... at home. They were liberated only to die in weeks or months in their devastated family of torture, exhaustion and untreated diseases beginning with tuberculosis, infections until heart disease and cancer. So yes 10 k casualties, the others died at home of natural causes. Something representative for the country. I had the luck and pleasure to talk to some who worked as soldiers there. As they are still working in the security companies perhaps it's better for you to talk directly to them. One told me that an entire platoon was buried alive while digging and they couldn't save them. They have been declared "missing". So never dead. Something usual.
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  39.  @AurelAvramescu  true, I was just going to make a comment and say very little about something. But I support you in this affirmation.
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  40.  @AurelAvramescu  on the other side I don't know some nations are seeing only advantages as former colonies as far they don't even realize that they have an identity of natural former colonies.
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  41.  @AurelAvramescu  I don't want to be mean but many people are a cultural explaining how the colonies fought for the metropole in the WWII.
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  42.  @AurelAvramescu  I am sorry to tell you that many have the correct, right education and information and denying and ignoring it on purpose, for interest, and keeping the same situation generating conflicts and wars. You can't bring "democracy around". They have been mainly on survival mode being attacked by the communists and later by the same extremists as today in Afghanistan. Modern democracies were disfunctional from the beginning for different historical reasons till late in the '80s, which made them vulnerable. Them in fact being not far from ancient Greece or Rome regarding slavery and racism, which let an important place for the Left. But normally everyone alive is evolving. You cannot say they support Afghanistan today.
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  43.  @AurelAvramescu  This happened because unfortunately they were the only functional anti - communists left. Sometimes you got exclusively the evil, no other choice. Which is not recommended at all. But presently the number of authoritarian regimes is very reduced, which does not make the authoritarian regimes left less dangerous. And the return to a serious self defense not to repeat another 9/11.
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  44.  @AurelAvramescu  what do you believe a military coup means?
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  45. No, till the '80s the normal people not being members of the communist party have been discriminated even married or in the same family with a communist party member by being denied to travel to the Soviet Union or any other communist country.
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  46.  @lakshyakashyap1490  nice jamming
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  47. Brainwashing and lies
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  48.  @bosanski_Cevap  this has something to do with the Balkans?
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  49.  @bosanski_Cevap  excuse me I didn't see that it was about patriotism
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  50. It was more like a "shot" everything at that time.
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