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Romania's GDP grew 550% from 1989 to 2026

So half the growth rate lmao. About 4% yearly during the socialist period and 2% during the capitalist period. Not looking great for your argument, especially when you consider that the distribution of wealth is abysmally worse now and the poor people get fucked while the rich take 90% of the wealth.

By 1989 Romanians were starving. Supermarket shelves were empty. Money meant nothing.

You're confusing the post-communist inflation period with actual socialism. You know, the point when people lost their jobs, when the industry of the country was dismantled, when the rural infrastructure was left to crumble, and when people had to massively start leaving the country!

And, hey, where were all the disabled people?

That's good and honest criticism, thanks for bringing it up. I wasn't aware of the treatment of people with disabilities in socialist Romania, and it's good that you showed me the article about it. You see, that's how you do criticism, not by making up nonexistent genocides.

Political opposition? Freedom of speech? None of that

Dude, I live in Spain. There has recently been a plot that destroyed the leftist party Podemos in Spain by cops manufacturing false documents of funding by Venezuela and Iran, and leaking those fake documents to all media, which echoed it incessantly for years until it was proven fake. Before that, we had the GAL, a secret paramilitary corps of the ministry of internal affairs that was murdering pro-independence Basque activists and tossing their corpses in lye to melt the evidence.

My uncle can attest to that. Oh wait, he can't. He spoke ill of the regime while in compulsory military training and they "took care" of him.

Wow, almost as if that's the history of countries with a fascist past! My great grandfather got murdered by the reds behind the frontlines on the civil war, and I'm not praising Franco for killing the reds. You know what? Because my great grandfather was fascist scum and he likely deserved it! Romania also has a fascist past, and it was necessary to rid the country of fascist elements.

But maybe my grandfather can tell you about his career as a police officer-ohnowait he got canned

Oh, your grandfather got canned for having a dissenting political opinion in the police, something that totally doesnt happen at all with modern police in Europe aye? Ffs my cousin is a cop and he's constantly harassed for being a leftist, and communists are systematically purged of public life and employments for the sin of being reds. Get off your high horse and look at the current reality.

Healthcare? Let's ask my aunt. Oh shit, wait, we can't. She died at 5 of pneumonia cause there were no doctors in her village

Surely she would have survived her pneumonia if the USSR had allowed the fascists to remain in government in s fucking backwards peasant country, huh? Dude, you're blaming communism for the lack of medicine in a fucking village in 1970, in a country they industrialized themselves. If it weren't for the communists, your aunt wouldn't even have been born because the Nazis would have ethnically cleansed your homeland!

Industry? Pollution

Oh you're right, Romania should have invented solar photovoltaic modules in 1955, totally communism's fault that they didn't! You're ridiculous! You can also thank Chinese communism for Romania's 47% of renewables, I bet half of that is achieved with solar panels, of which China manufactures 95% of the world's supply! And likely another significant part of that 47% comes from hydroelectric stations from the communist times of Romania ;)

My parents lived through it themselves and I live in Romania today

So capitalism literally uprooted your family from your homeland for 30 years and you're still licking the boot? That's absurd levels of cognitive dissonance! Your family literally had to leave the fucking country because of the horrifying 1990s capitalist crisis, and only now can you move back to a somewhat stable Romania (likely highly educated and in a high paying service sector job of the top 10% of the population, correct me otherwise) being one of the few wealthy people enjoying the fruits of someone else's labor in capitalism.