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[+] -11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What of the soviet union? We were never part of the Soviet Union. We were just occupied by it's soldiers. (Oh no, did they really do that? That was not nice.)

There is no Soviet Union to bring back for Czech people. The poll is refering to the communist regime in Czech Republic.

Turns out only ca 3% of the voters wanted the communist party to have a say in how the country should be run and didnt win any seats.

Sad trombone noises

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  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    See this is why I didn't want to throw polls at each other. Now I made you click one link deeper into your article and suddenly the graphic in the first poll where it says 45% people say they are better off now and 39% say they are worse now turned into a statistic where 28% say they were better off in the past regime and 23% say they are better off now.

    Which one is the irrefutable one you are talking about. I'm confused.

    Maybe its better to stick with the election results they aren't as easily misrepresented.

    Only really naive people from countries that never experienced the "beauty" of communism can support it.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Only really naive people from countries that never experienced the “beauty” of communism can support it.

    People already showed you several polls, of people who currently or previously experienced communism, which say otherwise, so why are you still posting nonsense like this?

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago

    It is not nonsense. I am merely saying that a gradual 35 years long decline in the number of people voting for communists in my country since the fall of the previous regime indicates that the claim "a majority of the people want the USSR back" is false in my country.

    Also that this steady decline of 35 years which resulted in 0 seats in the parliament for the communist party is more indicative of the feelings that the poeple hold towards communism than a 14 years old poll conducted on 600 residents.

    Is that too far fetched?

    It is even weird to include the poll in an article about the people wanting the USSR back because (drumroll) we were never part of the USSR. We were just occupied by it.

    (And noone wants foreign occupying soldiers back.)

    People here seem to enjoy being able to travel again. They do not experience shortages of goods. And no one is sacking them from their jobs or preventing them from studying because they arent members of the communist party. The above mentioned phenomena were common in the last regime.

    I have the benefit to compare both the communist era in my country as well as what came after the revolution. And so has my entire generation. Which is the reason why communists have 0 seats in parliament here.

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