this post was inspired by the fact that the chinese communist party is a naked emperor. this lead me to think whether people in ussr or eastern block really believed in marxism-leninism? i mean lot of europeans are basicly state-socialists who hate the rich. from my the parents (my family is from armenia) i take it that the people were basicly utopian socialists who were hopeful for its coming but didnt really understand "historical materialism" ,if you will.
anyways this is not a debate of the ideology but a historical question
Take a look at this
http://mises.org/Community/forums/t/4727.aspx
It has some related material.
by asking a couple of people around who lived in soviet union i am getting the same impression when i talk to 15 yr old chomskyites. money, bad, decedance, coca cola. basicly the people who did believe in socialism were utopian with no grasp of political economy.
huh, this makes me the only soviet kid here. better invent a time machine and visit some state owned barbershops
Was born in CCCP, moved with my parents over here when I was 3. Don't personally know much about how it was, though we moved to the USA because it is better.
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Is that an obama public speech? jk.
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Its the fall of the Berlin Wall.
'Men do not change, they unmask themselves' - Germaine de Stael
From what I remember of the 1980s, no one really believed in the socialism anymore since the reality of life in the USSR was so blatantly different from the official version. Of course now many Russians are disappointed in the market reforms (as if there's really a free market in Russia, it's been hijacked by the plutocrats) and are nostalgic over the Soviet period.
If I hear not allowed much oftener; said Sam, I'm going to get angry.
J.R.R.Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings