I had Hungarian friends who told me about Hungarian friends of theirs who had left the free world and gone back to communist Hungary.
There was very little freedom there, but neither was there much freedom to fail. They were terrified living in the West with the possibility of being out of work or having medical problems that sucked up all their money.
If you were raised never knowing any better, capitalism and self-reliance could be a real crap shoot.
‘’ There was very little freedom there, but neither was there much freedom to fail. They were terrified living in the West with the possibility of being out of work or having medical problems that sucked up all their money.
If you were raised never knowing any better, capitalism and self-reliance could be a real crap shoot.’’
To be fair Soviet propaganda regarding the West was quite factually correct. It was biased in conclusions based on these facts though. The rest is history along with the Soviet bloc which didn’t prove to be a working system.