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The original was posted on /r/thedeprogram by /u/Wally_Squash on 2024-11-08 13:58:45+00:00.
Recently there are a lot of people who live in Europe or America from former communist countries in Africa and Asia who are the champions of anti communism
So let me ask you, do you think your life would have been far better in Apartheid South Africa which bordered Communist Mozambique, or maybe Pro west dictatorship that was Malawi which was the most brutal dictatorship in the world until the 90s. Or maybe Rhodesia which was also an apartheid state.
I do sympathise with your family if they lost their lives to an oppressive regime but how do you attribute your family dying to communism when literally every non Communist country that bordered your country was literally a more brutal regime.
I was going to concede to him because there’s no use of fighting emotionally charged people, but then he said ‘talk to the people who escaped Vietnam’ and then I just chuckled and left lol. I was going to sympathisr with him but I realised he is just tripping on that anti Socialist western propaganda