dagmaraka wrote:Swolf obviously never had an experience with a communist party.
True, nonetheless I speak Russian well enough to have asked a lot of people who have about it. In particular, when speaking with people whose parents lived under the tsars, I've always asked the same question, i.e. was life worse under the tsars or under the commies (zhizn buila xhuzhe pod tsaryami ili pod kommunistami? or some such), and the answer always comes back the same way, i.e. that life under the tsars was so bad that it seemed inconceivable at the time that it could get worse but that, after ten or twelve years of life under the commies, people were referring to tsarist times as the good old days.