
Living through the fall of communism
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Was There a Positive Aspect of Living in a Communist Society?
For adults, this was a society of lots of censorship and very oppressive society. But for children, it was not at all an oppressive society. Was one of the freest societies you could imagine. You didn't have reason to be suspicious of strangers when they talked to you. People generally trusted each other. And i feel that we have sort of lost that desire to just know more things. Which is strange, because in a censore society, where cisely knowledge is curtailed, you wouldn't think that this is the thing that you miss about that society. I would say that there are things that had been lost, that have been lost from that society that we don't have
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