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Jaymoon 14 points ago +14 / -0

If you have a spare 4+ hours, highly recommend watching this interview (2 parts) with a Navy Seal who grew up under communist control of Poland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8eQsQMfnLk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-xS89QCbRc

As you said, those who lived it are the harshest critics of it. One of my take aways from the interview was how the people were gas-lit into believing the grocery stores were empty, not because communism is a big fail, but because their greedy neighbors down the street succumbed to capitalism and bought everything up... eye roll

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Jaymoon 5 points ago +5 / -0

And then cite each other as sources of truth.

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Jaymoon 13 points ago +13 / -0

If you can stomach a clip from a NPR podcast, the reason that the "right wing" is so racist is that they are "othering" the bugs, so therefore anyone who eats bugs is automatically a victim of racism.

https://files.catbox.moe/n3yvwt.mp3