That is the difference between someone like you, who lived his entire life in a democracy and thus takes it for granted
Don't give me this crap since I have at least one advantage over you: I lived under that tyrannical "communism" in Poland until I was 24.
Then I moved to the freest country on the globe - the USA, with the best constitution ever written. And guess what...My daily life didn't change one damn bit except that it was my bad right eye that kept me from being sent to Vietnam to fight for
their "freedom and democracy" and possibly coming back in a plastic bag or without my arms or legs - if less lucky.
This gives me a right to claim that Z=P. In my case, US > PRL but only because my paycheck was bigger. Today, the US, just like Germany, is a woke basket case and a lawless sh*ithole.
They remember Soviet occupation of Ukraine
Only an dishonest moron would compare Russia today with the USSR in the thirties.
Poles remember Auschwitz and still go to Germany to work. How stupid of them...Auschwitz, Treblinka, ghettos, executions...all ignored and forgotten to the relief of both sides.
But the USSR and Stalin....NEVER! The same with Katyn. One thousand years from now some moron will post about all of this on PF.
They did a good job occupying themselves, then.
Brilliant point, Bobko. PRL was "occupied" the same way - by Polish collaborators. Gladly and with a smile. No, I didn't see any Soviet army in my entire "communist" life from 1945 till 1966.