In your closest social circles, the word 'communism' is generally used to refer to something:
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In post-soviet Poland, it’s culturally referred to with a certain amount of spiteful nostalgia after the balls-to-the-wall absurdism of what it brought here.
We’re a weird people.
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All young Americans (teens and mid-twenties) really look at communism with starry eyes, like socialism is the way to go. But it's really not - most eastern-Europeans can still remember the lack of food, unheated block apartments and the long lines at 5 AM
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