• paranoia@feddit.dk
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    9 hours ago

    When I spoke about European countries under socialism I meant East Germany (Stasi), USSR (KGB), Czechoslovakia (StB), Hungary (AVH), etc.

    None of these countries were capitalist at the time and maintained gigantic security services to spy on the entire population.

    • badgermurphy@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Ooh, that is a different matter entirely. We’ve managed to be fortunate to be spared a lot of those historic hard times, though we seem to be leading the charge towards some brand new hard times lately.