like all russian pensioners saying life was better under stalin since they could just move into an apartment of the people whose whole family was killed.
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Fontasia@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Nostalgia for being oppressed is in full force.
“Ștefan Șerban, 69, sitting on a bench with his friend Nicolae Carja, 74, said life had been better under the former Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceauşescu. “We were a rich country then,” he said. “Industry, petrol, gas, goldmines. And no debt.””
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
CherryBullets@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
“They yearn for the mines”.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Except it became so expensive to run them.
Similar thing happened to the copper mines of Hungary, at one point it became so expensive to mine it was cheaper and easier to shut them off, at least temporarily. We potentially even have some gold in the same mine, it’s just allegedly so deep no current technology is able to mine them.
Same with the local closed coalmines, but with environmental concerns, and my house is sinking because of them. However, there’s way more conspiracy theory is out there about them.
CherryBullets@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
I was memeing my friend, but ty for info, it’s interesting to learn. Upvoted.
martin4598@lemm.ee 23 hours ago
Rich? They were poor AF and everybody knew it, it was a rolling joke in the west.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
They were probably very drunk '89. Otherwise they would have remembered that the dude got clipped for using the country as his own personal bank account.
drewcarreyfan@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
I swear to God, I feel like the global rise in far-right parties has less to do with any kind of global cabal, and more to do with the fact that Boomers everywhere are powered by nostalgia. Seems like Boomers everywhere will stop at nothing to bring back the world of their parents that they never experienced.
straightjorkin@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Not just boomers, Gen x. They’re literally more willing to believe that the earth shifted into an alternate universe before they’re willing to believe their own memory is fallible.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
Read a book called 'Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler. He wrote it around 1970 and pretty much predicted everything that happened since. “Future shock” was his term for the madness that people would embrace when they realized they couldn’t/wouldn’t deal with the changes that the shift from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era would bring.
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 18 hours ago
I’m reading it right now. I still can’t believe that a 55-year-old book could still describe aspects of my life to such accuracy!
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
It gets even worse.
He inspired a science fiction writer named John Brunner. Brunner’s book, "Stand On Zanzibar’ won the 1969 Hugo award for best science fiction novel. It’s set in the early 21st Century and features such crazy ideas as middle class adults needing room mates to make the rent, wide spread homelessness, AI, endless post-colonial wars, the internet, and music videos.
bookshop.org/p/books/…/7252770?ean=9781250781222&…
epicstove@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
USSR foreign policy was basically “Damn, remember when we were an empire?”
monogram@feddit.nl 20 hours ago
aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
But the world of the Boomer’s parents was ww1 into ww2. It was a pretty big deal