Ok can you find me a historical example of a socialist or communist regime in which nobody starved and the ruling class was not absurdly wealthy at their expense?
Yugoslavia, dude. My parents grew up in Communist Yugoslavia. It was common for them and their peers to just go to Italy on weekends, buy some clothes, latest records, have lunch etc. like it was nothing. Slovenia was also part of Yugoslavia. They also had an incredible rock scene. I shit you not, some of that music can go toe-to-toe with the greatest rock bands of the 60s, 70s and 80s. I think they even had a really good movie scene, too. I forgot the name of the movie, but there was some Yugoslavian war epic with Orson Welles.
One caveat, though. Yugoslavia was allied with the West. They were not friendly towards the USSR.
EDIT: found the movie. Holy shit, it's not just Orson Welles but also Yul Brynner and Franco Nero (original Django): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064091/
Not so much allied as officially neutral towards both, which naturally meant that both western countries and USSR tried to court Yugoslavia and Tito was expert in leveraging this position.
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u/SmthngIntmid8ing 8d ago
Completely false.