• CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Growing up in Eastern Europe I had a romanticised picture of USA and I always wished I grew up there.

    Only until years later I realised how privileged I was not having to worry about the student debt, medical insurance and gun violence…

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      1 year ago

      It’s true. Everything we were told would happen if we lost the Cold War happened anyway, done to us from within.

      • BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tfOP
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        1 year ago

        Most of it was already happening and only stopped because people were inspired by “The Reds” as they called them and started the labor movement.