1) Are you judging everything based on repressions again? Of course, power isn't easy, but it didn't sink to the level of the 80s... The series of funerals was our biggest failure.
Although, I like Khrushchev. He exposed the cult of personality, initiated a major breakthrough in science and space exploration, and didn't give the Americans an easy time. But, perhaps, he is the only Soviet politician that I like, and even your party didn't take to him very well.
4) The laws were normal back then - now the laws are awful... So, this is nonsense!
In general, you might think that I share Lord's opinion, but that's not the case. Although democracy is better than the futile attempts to build communism, it's still not great. Freedom – everyone loves this concept, everyone is so proud of it, they rejoice in the fact that they are free. But now, in our country, freedom is only an illusion, and I'm not just talking about election fraud, not even so much about it. I'm talking about the fact that after the difficult socialist times, people seem to have gone crazy with their freedom and decided that if there is freedom, then everything is allowed. People have started to lead a drastically wrong lifestyle, and television and the internet only exacerbate the situation (although our site stands out favorably, I would say). And it's not even that that's the scariest thing, because people have always been drawn to bad things. The scary thing is that bad has become the norm, sometimes even something good. This drastically reduces any hope of improvement. And if people love to get everything from life, to live for themselves, and not for others or for the country, then why be surprised that those who are... well, you understand, are in power.
Therefore, Lord's position regarding kilometer-long queues and freedom is not entirely justified. This could be tolerated if people weren't being killed and there was a real opportunity to build communism. But the latter is impossible: it's too utopian, and nothing good can come from revolutionaries who are also regicides.
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Well, where are the debaters? I'm just getting into it.