Sure but you're weaseling out of the things you originally said, neither of which are true - that there was universal and broad belief in the ideology of the system because basically people had not heard any better, all the way up to 1989. And that at the time of the breakup of the Soviet Union, Soviet republics or Warsaw countries were starving.

Your newer stuff isn't much better (Hungary didn't let East Germans into Austria because the fence was under-maintained) but that's probably past the point at which should wrap this up.