Eastern Europe is Better Than Us on Many Levels

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I'm conflicted.

On the one hand, I want to say the default right-wing thing which is "If you don't like it then leave!"

On the other hand, I want to just plain laugh that POLAND is the country we are saying is better than the US. Not Japan or Switzerland or Sweden or someplace actually nice, but POLAND.

They have the memory of authoritarian control. Eastern Europe was brutal under Soviet domination. With Poland it is their bad luck to be between Russia and Germany. The world is about conquering and we have whitewashed it with many people believing we have "evolved" in the 21st Century. China is on course to overtake us as the number one country in the world in about a quarter century at most.

It was VERY brutal. The same stuf that happened in Stalin-era Russia (gulags, people disappearing, camps, etc) happened in Poland and Hungary and other countries in the 1950's and 1960's.

It was terrible from what I have read. Soviet Russia was just awful.