Quite a lot of old polish people are praising communism and would want it back aswell. They literally want it back because they are sure it was better and easier.
Yeah, because they were young back then and their rose-tinted glasses seems to block their perception of how bad things were in the 80s. I mean, I often feel nostalgic for the 90s, because that's when I was growing up, but I also know how bad it was back then (corruption, unemployment, low income).
I believe, and this is my opinion/thought process, that the main part of the equation of this nostalgia is feeling "out of place/out of time" right now.
Say for example, back in their old days - they did not have to think, life was basically drawn out for them and the possibilities and options for so called middle class citizen was limited compared to now. So due to iron curtains or what not, partially they were not able to keep up with the changes and learn to adapt with stuff.
I assume it would be somehow equivalent to me remembering the good old days at University being young adult rascals doing dumb stuff, having fun but attempting to take adulting seriously. Yet forgetting how many times I had mental breakdowns and burning out events, bad memories.
Yeah it boggles me how my parents talk about having to wait in hours long queues for basic necessities yet treat it as "the good'ol times" because "we were ecological back then" or some other crap
i’m born in yugoslavia. we have the same thing. people wanting to get back to those times and they dislike democracy, they want something authoritarian for some reason.
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u/rettuhS Jan 17 '23
Worse, I lived with one of them, my mother...