Well a very sweet old lady i know was born in the 1950s. She says only "communist party bootlickers" (whatever that means) could study at university. If you were not in the party university was closed doors for you, she claims. She also claims that a friend of hers was arrested and tortured by the police for weeks for "being against the communists" (again, i dont know what that means). She also said there was no food and you had to buy everything on the black market. If you thought it yes, shes a liberal and quite anticommunist. I think this is because after PRL collapsed her standards of living went up significantly (from low income to middle income) thanks to her son being a successful scientist working in the west.
And yes, its 100% true that communism doesnt exist at all in modern day Poland. When my mom went to Poland with these friends a few years ago (my mom knows im a communist, shes left wing too) she thought "hey, ill buy my son some communist T shirt or something. Here its the former east bloc so they must sell them". She found absolutely nothing, and when she asked for "communist merchandising/memorabilia" in the shops they looked at her like she was crazy or something. Definetely true what you said.
Hey! You are the legendary PolandIsAStateOfMind! Glad to see you here on Lemmygrad! I know some polish friends but they say communism in Poland was bad. They basically say "no food, brutal repression". How should i respond to that?
This is pure bullshit. There have been transgender people from at least during WW2 that i know of (im italian, theres an old italian trans woman, whos still alive btw, who served as a soldier during WW2 and she declared herself to be a woman just after the war was over), so way before LGBT rights movements became mainstream. This alone completely refutes this bs that transgenderism is an invention of liberals.
Well a very sweet old lady i know was born in the 1950s. She says only "communist party bootlickers" (whatever that means) could study at university. If you were not in the party university was closed doors for you, she claims. She also claims that a friend of hers was arrested and tortured by the police for weeks for "being against the communists" (again, i dont know what that means). She also said there was no food and you had to buy everything on the black market. If you thought it yes, shes a liberal and quite anticommunist. I think this is because after PRL collapsed her standards of living went up significantly (from low income to middle income) thanks to her son being a successful scientist working in the west.
And yes, its 100% true that communism doesnt exist at all in modern day Poland. When my mom went to Poland with these friends a few years ago (my mom knows im a communist, shes left wing too) she thought "hey, ill buy my son some communist T shirt or something. Here its the former east bloc so they must sell them". She found absolutely nothing, and when she asked for "communist merchandising/memorabilia" in the shops they looked at her like she was crazy or something. Definetely true what you said.