Yeah, you grew up in an ex Warsaw Pact country, not in a Warsaw Pact country. Keep blaming the problems of capitalism on the system that you had 35 years ago. If it weren’t for the USSR, your ancestors would have likely been exterminated by Nazis.
I can argue with you in at all because you’re alive thanks to the USSR. Almost all Warsaw pact peoples were liable to Nazi extermination, if you belong to the few who were not, it’s not a good argument either. “Nazis wouldn’t have exterminated me!”
I’m a Spaniard myself, if you ask some of my ancestors, “con Franco se vivía mejor”. You know, under a fascist dictatorship. So no, the “argument from authority by old people” isn’t convincing to me.
I wish the Soviets had liberated my country from fascism too, unfortunately my country is on the other side of the continent and the Soviet aid during the Spanish Civil War was insufficient (likely due to being the only country to sell weapons to the antifascists while Nazi Germany bombed them and the rest of the world looked the other way).
Yeah, you grew up in an ex Warsaw Pact country, not in a Warsaw Pact country. Keep blaming the problems of capitalism on the system that you had 35 years ago. If it weren’t for the USSR, your ancestors would have likely been exterminated by Nazis.
Make assumptions about me and my ancestry at our first interaction, I’m sure you will eventually convince someone you’re arguing in good faith.
I can argue with you in at all because you’re alive thanks to the USSR. Almost all Warsaw pact peoples were liable to Nazi extermination, if you belong to the few who were not, it’s not a good argument either. “Nazis wouldn’t have exterminated me!”
Well I hate to disappoint you, but for me the weight of your narrative pales in comparison to the first hand accounts of my actual ancestors.
Again: you have ancestors because of the Soviets.
I’m a Spaniard myself, if you ask some of my ancestors, “con Franco se vivía mejor”. You know, under a fascist dictatorship. So no, the “argument from authority by old people” isn’t convincing to me.
I wish the Soviets had liberated my country from fascism too, unfortunately my country is on the other side of the continent and the Soviet aid during the Spanish Civil War was insufficient (likely due to being the only country to sell weapons to the antifascists while Nazi Germany bombed them and the rest of the world looked the other way).