SPECIAL TO IN DEFENSE OF COMMUNISM.
First of all, let us say that the proper phrase is "under Socialism". During the 20th century, the Soviet Union and the socialist countries of Eastern Europe were in the process of socialist construction. According to the Marxist-Leninist theory, "Socialism" consist the first stage (phase) of Communism.
Having said the above, let's go to the core issue. The people who have lived both under Socialism and Capitalism give their answer to the various bourgeois and petty bourgeois unhistorical slanders. Various polls in former Socialist countries prove that the majority of people, in Russia and Eastern Europe, think that life was better before the counter-revolutions and the restoration of Capitalism. Under Socialism their major problems had been solved: Free education, free healthcare for all, social security, jobs, free vacation and holidays for everyone, etc. The restoration of Capitalism brought an unprecedented barbarity in almost every sector of public life: Social inequalities, unemployment, privatization of major public sectors from healthcare to education, etc.
On
March 2016, a survey conducted by the All-Russia
Public Opinion Center (VTsIOM) showed that:
More
than half of Russians (64%) would vote to maintain the Soviet Union
if a referendum were held today. This
figure increases from 47% among those 18-24 to 76% among respondents
age 60 and more. Only 20% of Russian citizens would vote
negatively for preserving the Soviet Union, according to the poll
results.
During the same period (March 2016), a similar survey by the Levada Center Survey in Russia showed that:
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| The electoral results of March 17, 1991 which the counter-revolutionary clique of Gorbachev-Yeltsin defiantly ignored. |
- More than half (51%) of the Russians said that the collapse of the Soviet Union could have been avoided.
- More than half (56%) of the Russians regred the collapse of the USSR (in fact, the victory of counter-revolution).
- The majority of the participants in the survey (58%) said that they would welcome the revival of the Soviet Union and the socialist system.
Polls conducted in the previous years have produced similar results. A survey by the Russia's Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) back in 2013, showed that 60% of Russians think that the life in the Soviet Union had more positive than negative aspects. Furthermore, in the same poll, 43% of the respondents would welcome the re-adoption of communist ideology, while 38% were not happy about such a perspective.
While reading the above, we must take into account the powerful anti-communist propaganda of the last two decades, the slanders and lies against the socialist system by the bourgeois media and political parties.
GERMANY.
On June 2009, a survey conducted in Germany showed that 57% of eastern Germans defend the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Of
those polled, 49% said “The GDR had
more good sides than bad sides. There were some problems, but life
was good there.” The poll was reported on Spiegel Online (which, however, tried to vilify GDR with anti-communist lies) and consists a proof that, according to historian Stefan Wolle, "a new form of Ostalgie has taken shape".
ROMANIA.
In
a July 2010 IRES (Romanian Institute for Evaluation and Strategy)
poll, according to which 41% of the respondents would have voted for
Ceausescu, had he run for the position of president. And 63% of the
survey participants said their life was better during communism,
while only 23% attested that their life was worse then. Some 68%
declared that communism was a good idea, just one that had been
poorly applied.
In a 2014 survey by the INSCOP Research poll revealed that 44.4 percent of the respondents believed that living conditions were better under communism.
HUNGARY.
According
to a report by the Pew Research Center, on April 2010, 72% of
Hungarians say that most people in their country are actually worse
off today economically than they were under communism. Only 8% say
most people in Hungary are better off, and 16% say things are about
the same.