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@therealrobertbirchall - EXACTLY - it was very much like Britain in WW2 - you didn't work hard for monetary reward, you did it for your country and your neighbours. And that was very much the motivation over here. in fact if you watch the series "Wartime Kitchen Garden" you will see that life in the Uk in WW2 was LITERALLY communism. Everything was centralised and everything was collectivised. The right to private ownership of LAND was abolished - 2,750 farms were nationalised cos the farmers refused to help in the war effort...
The biggest takeaway I could give about communism, and I have interviewed many hundreds of people about it,nis that everything we were told in the west was a LIE. That does not mean it was all sunshine and roses - far from it. But they didnt even tell the truth about the bad things... they make up lies about bad things. For example - if you lived in a small town or village you have to line up every morning at 6.00am for "registration", if you wanted to go see a relative in another village you had to get a permission slip from the mayor to be allowed out by the armed police at the barrier to the road. This is horrible and NO ONE MENTIONED IT.
On the flip side, the entire structure of society and even the architecture and city planning at every level was for the benefit of the people and not to save money or make a profit. So there are 24 small hospitals in my city cos that's convenient. I can see 8 schools from my apartment windows cos local schools are convenient. But fairs are 60 pence no matter how far you travel cos you use busses for necessities like going to work - thats 1 thing so everyone pays the same fee to go to work, a subsidised 60 pence. You are NOT punished for living a long way from work.
Everyone who has a child under school age gets hot fresh cooked food delivered every morning from the 'baby kitchen" so no child goes hungry or malnourished. There are thousands of fruit trees in the cities and towns, why??? FREE FRUIT as much free fruit as you can pick for 4 months of the year...!!! Imagine what Tesco would say about that???
On the other hand, next door in Romanina it truly was a living hell - communism was NOT the monolith we were told it was. Here in Bulgaria, most people who remember communism want to go BACK to communism. The communist party got 22% in the recent election.
I arrived in Bulgaria a business-owning capitalist. I'm now a communist - it was the fruit trees that did it for me. I was rich and unhappy and I saw people picking baskets of fruit and I thought "why are kids in the UK hungry and kids in Bulgaria have free apples in the middle of the city??? And why are these people happy and smiling and I'm miserable??? WE MUST be able to do better than this capitalism" and then I realised nearly all the things that were great about Bulgaria were all a hangover from the communist days, and nearly all the things that were turning to sh!t were a result of capitalism...
And the final straw with capitalism for me was noticing that more and more things in my house we made in the communist days. My mop bucket was made in 1976 and my cheese greater in 1972 - sick if buying plastic crap from China that breaks I was buying old communist stuff that was made to last forever and never be replaced - cos there was NO profit motive to making crap that needs replacing.
So now I describe myself as an "environmental communist".
One day I intend to write a book on all this...
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