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If you do more research you may have one or two more revelations when it comes to Romania

The wealthy are not taking 90% in Romania. If the far-right and right keeps growing though... maybe. Same goes for the MAGA-friendly socially conservative kleptocratic social-democrat-in-name-only party we have here. There's a new green social-democrat party that's the real deal. It's growing. Fingers crossed. I don't think we need communism to keep things in check. A solid social-democrat party with a few democratic socialists here and there should do just fine. If the country goes far-right though... we're fucked.

The thing about supermarkets being empty is real. That was literally one of the things that triggered the revolution. People tend to stay put if their basic needs are met, which is exactly what the communist regime promised to do and did not. Ceausescu sucked at socialism, basically, if you wanna put it that way. He ran the country like a business and didn't care about the employees. He only cared about himself and his oligarch friends. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_austerity_policy_in_Romania

My uncle was not a fascist. Far from it. Look at who MAGA calls terrorists and "radical far-left lunatics" these days. It was like that. If you disagreed with them, you were a "fascist".

What my grandfather did was he refused to beat up a guy for information. He was just a regular cop in a small city. Just a guy who needed a job. He didn't want to play a part in political oppression. That's how he got fired.

My family didn't leave Romania. I did. And they've been fine. I left for university. I did Film & TV in the UK cause I liked English-language entertainment. As for other people being uprooted... People didn't leave Romania in its communist years because they weren't allowed to, not cause they liked communism. Plenty escaped. Much like North Korea today.

Also, you keep using socialism and communism like they're synonyms. They're not. I'm down with democratic socialism. I am not down with the clusterfuck of oppression and poverty that was the Ceausescu regime. If you feel the same, I'd kindly suggest you don't associate with it either, cause it is a bottomless can of worms. The more you read, the more shocking it gets. And that goes for plenty other figures of the 20th century. This new generation of progressive democratic socialists is a completely different and much better thing.

(Edited a thing or two for clarity)