Message 78/92
Date: 03-Jan-03 @ 04:50 PM -
RE: The World Ends In 2006
Influx apos - i didn't read all of your message - "the viable ones didnt get the focus" - you covered most of my last comment (man i am handing out alot of appos right now)
Anyways - just spoke to actual (former) soviet citizen (wife) and she says that it was never socialism, the idea was good and nice but in reality there no choice and people abused power. However everyone did have a job, trasnportation, medicine, roof, food and lots of art AND there were no SUV's - though Trabants are much worse for the environment
She has also told me that when central planning ended up making too many shoes there would be an advert on the TV and newspapers with just the words "cipõ a cipõbolt" meaning "shoes in the shoe shop" - up front realy gets there dunnit?
Now, here the socialist party is in power and is many of the same crowd who were torturing soviet puppets, BUT the nice people(??) (Fidesz Party) are the right wing, but if you look at the agenda the socialists have a right wing agenda and the 'so called' right wing have a left wing agenda - eh?. Should say that I voted ignorance and apathy based on a platform of complete ignorance (this opinion is all second hand poorly rememberd from recent election)
Personally - I have to say this is a cool place, people are sweet (tad depressed maybe) but I am loving it, and (as Milan mentioned, with schauzenfreud) at least it's not 'socialist' UK or ...wtf US - But wait, is that the EU express i hear, with rooms full of rules and corporate smiles holding breifcases filled with shiny beads and contracts, I am sure I was in this dream once before