alt Hacker NewsYou are smart enought to post on hn but not smart enough to have an argument?
Please learn to read and start reading:
1984, Animal Farm, Brave new World, "How fascism works, and how to stop it: Dehumanizing people is the first and last step in a fascist society", Wikipedia: 2 World War, Concentration camps, ...
And you should read up on the Soviet system, the failure of central planning, their occupation of Germany (Eastern Germany vs West Germany)
The holodomor (Ukraine genocide, yes a real one not a pretend Gaza one)
Read on the current Ukraine war, do you even support it?
Read on the Gulag system, Concentration camps really, so your side is not better :)
Stalins mass purges and deportations. No free speech, press, assembly, one party state rule. You want this?
Read up on Chernobyl, the cover up.
Majorities in Poland (85%+), Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, etc., view the shift to democracy and markets positively. Living standards, education, and opportunities improved. Ukrainians overwhelmingly reject it post-independence and especially after Russian aggression. Baltics treat Soviet era as occupation, not legitimate rule.
Because I suspect you are a socialist. Not in the sense of like me in Sweden, but an actual tankie one.