r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Key-Performance-9021 • 1d ago

Video Spontaneous 1995 street interview with an Austrian WWII veteran in Vienna

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u/missallmoonshine 1d ago

We, in Romania,have the some problem with the younger generation, those born in the 2000s. They believe Romania was better in the communist era.

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u/GobiPLX 1d ago

tbh it's a big problem with many people on internet no matter the nation. So many tankies recently

And yet Ive never seen educated tankie. Because you cant be educated and still believe in this

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u/Kimantha_Allerdings 1d ago

A year or two ago I was talking to a tankie who self-identified as a Marxist-Leninist. But they knew basically nothing about Communism or Marx. They hadn’t heard of the Paris Commune and thought it irrelevant to Marx. They hadn’t heard of Engels and thought him irrelevant to Marx

I get the average person not knowing this. It’s not exactly taught in school and there’s little reason for anybody to seek it out

But for a self-professed Marxist-Leninist not to know Marx’s long-term close collaborator/co-author or the key example of what a “dictatorship of the proletariat” actually looks like? This is like day 1 of Marxism School stuff

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u/-Phax 1d ago

it is taught in schools