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compare this to my parents generation in communistic (then) Poland -- no debt, guaranteed jobs, free housing.

Do your parents tell you how much they miss that? My parents aren't from Soviet-era Poland, but I've never heard a citizen of the Soviet Bloc wax nostalgic about their time there.

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> Do your parents tell you how much they miss that? My parents aren't from Soviet-era Poland, but I've never heard a citizen of the Soviet Bloc wax nostalgic about their time there.

I've heard of (but not heard myself) lots of people in post-Soviet Russia doing so, and its been frequently cited as the basis for support for many of the most powerful politicians in Russia since shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union.

I have. It surprised me a lot. Maybe it is because we tend to remember the good parts.

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