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In my experience those are the people who miss the "good" old times, when everything had order and hierarchy. Wikipedia says the communist party in Poland had 3

by nec4b 1mo ago

In my experience those are the people who miss the "good" old times, when everything had order and hierarchy. Wikipedia says the communist party in Poland had 3 million member which is about 10% of the population at the time. If you add the family members and close relatives, the number of people living a privileged life was quite big. Red nobility is known phenomenon in former communist countries. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_United_Workers%27_Party https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_United_Workers%27_P...

epolanski 1mo ago
You can look and Google for many polls conducted on the topic, 2014 was the first year more Poles had a negative than a positive opinion on the PRL (46 vs 44%) and that's because as time progresses average voter age goes down. People that were at least 15 by 1989 (the last year of communism in Poland) had a warm opinion on it. It's really younger generations that did not live in PRL that hold overwhelmingly negative opinions on it. In any case, I'm not sure why am I arguing with you? I'm Polish and my family lived those eras, so did my friends and their families. Simple fact is: during communism people enjoyed fair lives, there was lots of safety, everybody had a job and a roof on their head and could afford one vacation per year. People made friends, sports, had hobbies and they were younger, so they remember the times as okay. On the other hand, people that did not live them, base their opinions on vibes and their external idea of how it was to live under PRL. Look, nobody is saying that life isn't better now, of course it is. But don't believe it was that bad. It was called "second" world and not "third" for a reason. It was okay. Yet in yanks minds we were living some dystopia were everybody lacked everything and was unhappy and their neighbour was gonna report them for anything.
- nec4b 1mo ago
  People miss their youth. You can do the same poll anywhere and the results will be similar, whether that place was a communist dictatorship or not. And no it's not a simple fact that people enjoyed their lives. Maybe it was for your family who was either close to power or ideologically agreed with the dictatorship. Communism was good to the the people aligned with the regime, but for anyone who had a dissident idea, it was hell on earth. A lot of things were missing and not available to buy. People had to make do with what they had. And reporting did happen as well, even if you try to brush it off. Poland would be a first world country had it not stay behind the iron curtain.

by nec4b 1mo ago

epolanski 1mo ago

You can look and Google for many polls conducted on the topic, 2014 was the first year more Poles had a negative than a positive opinion on the PRL (46 vs 44%) and that's because as time progresses average voter age goes down. People that were at least 15 by 1989 (the last year of communism in Poland) had a warm opinion on it. It's really younger generations that did not live in PRL that hold overwhelmingly negative opinions on it. In any case, I'm not sure why am I arguing with you? I'm Polish and my family lived those eras, so did my friends and their families. Simple fact is: during communism people enjoyed fair lives, there was lots of safety, everybody had a job and a roof on their head and could afford one vacation per year. People made friends, sports, had hobbies and they were younger, so they remember the times as okay. On the other hand, people that did not live them, base their opinions on vibes and their external idea of how it was to live under PRL. Look, nobody is saying that life isn't better now, of course it is. But don't believe it was that bad. It was called "second" world and not "third" for a reason. It was okay. Yet in yanks minds we were living some dystopia were everybody lacked everything and was unhappy and their neighbour was gonna report them for anything.

nec4b 1mo ago
People miss their youth. You can do the same poll anywhere and the results will be similar, whether that place was a communist dictatorship or not. And no it's not a simple fact that people enjoyed their lives. Maybe it was for your family who was either close to power or ideologically agreed with the dictatorship. Communism was good to the the people aligned with the regime, but for anyone who had a dissident idea, it was hell on earth. A lot of things were missing and not available to buy. People had to make do with what they had. And reporting did happen as well, even if you try to brush it off. Poland would be a first world country had it not stay behind the iron curtain.