[AlexW]

The sad part is that most of these red diaper doper babies
were born AFTER the Berlin wall came down.
They have no clue as to what it is like to live in a Communist state.

I spent much of 8 years living in central Europe.
On the edge of Slovakia there is a monument to those that were shot as they tried to swim the Danube to Austria, on the opposite bank.
Some, however, did make it.
One family escaped at night by a homemade hot air balloon.

The old building, with three gun ramps on the roof, is still there.

[PapaBear3625]

The sad part is that most of these red diaper doper babies were born AFTER the Berlin wall came down. They have no clue as to what it is like to live in a Communist state.

They know how the common people lived. They also know how the senior Party members lived like feudal nobility.

A planned economy is most attractive to those with the arrogance to think that they would be members of the planning class.