According to the Soviet media, all Western cities were vast Dickensian slums of collossal poverty and Soviet citizens had the highest standard of living on Earth. It was not the truth.
--- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
>
>
> While we are at that, a personal comment. The
> imperialism, capitalism, poor
> people, working class and kindred stories that I
> hear from the left give me
> a profound sense of déjà vu. Unlike most of you, I
> was spoon-fed those
> stories in my previous life on the other side of the
> 'iron curtain.' And
> unlike most of you, I learned to regard these
> stories as shameless
> propaganda attempts and scape-goating of the
> outsiders to divert attention
> from the domestic problems and the ineptitude and
> corruption of local
> political elites. We Eastern European intellectuals
> used to laugh at
> star-eyed American lefties visiting our countries
> and earnestly (although
> inadvertently) repeating the same propaganda and
> party lines that we were
> spoon-fed by our own media. We knew better than
> that from our own
> experiences. Chris can probably attest the same
> about Russia as well.
>
> Wojtek
>
> ^^^^^^
> CB: For you this may be like finding out that some
> young adult finding out
> that their parents were right all along or something
> but, the American
> lefties were right , and you all were wrong.
> Whatever domestic problems you
> had, the Communists in Poland were correct about
> imperialism, capitalism,
> poor people, the working class, etc. In a way you
> were a victim of
> circumstances; their other shortcomings caused you
> to revolt against the
> truth of what they were teaching you. You were being
> spoon fed the truth.
>
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