Re:As Chinese investment pours into the EU, the Europeans ar...
by def_true_false on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @11:26AM
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> ... people in different countries in Europe have devoted their lives, risked careers, gone to prison, even tortured or executed for being pro-communist
Or, if they happened to be in Eastern Europe, for being anti-communist... funny how that works.
Re:As Chinese investment pours into the EU, the Europeans ar...
by coldtea on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @02:17PM
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Well, the grass is always greener. Funny also how many ex-eastern blocers say they preferred those times though...
Re:As Chinese investment pours into the EU, the Europeans ar...
by FeloniousHam on Monday October 15, 2018 @12:54PM
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Only ironic if you discount nostalgia from every generation. I too prefer the social media-and-screen-free life of Cold War America, with the closer and stricter family structure that existed then. But I would not trade the mobility, agency, choice, and convenience of the modern age for those rosy memories.
I say categorically: no non-ideological ex-Eastern Blocer wishes to return to the lower standard of living and simple lack of options imposed by Soviet rule, regardless of what hardship the iron fist of US hegemony imposes.
A, yes, it was the Russians all along, which, retroactively also proves that they control the world now from some building in St. Petersburg. And when they get some friendly lackey in power like Yeltsin again and be buddies and everything, there will be another enemy du jour, arabs (just not the Saudis) are good for that.
It's not like there ever was a very strong European left movement (or an American one for that matter), or that people in different countries in Europe have devoted their lives, risked careers, gone to prison, even tortured or executed for being pro-communist (or perhaps they did all that because they were paid)...