Thread: Does Communism still have a role to play, or is it dead?

Originally Posted by Hanna

I mea, since there were actual elections in the USSR as far as I am aware.

That's interesting
Where did you find this info, Hanna?

Originally Posted by Doomer

That's interesting
Where did you find this info, Hanna?

I don't know, I just remember hearing, back in those days that there WERE elections in Eastern Europe, just some restrictions as to what people could vote for. I.e. different shades of red, probably (???) And hearing about it on the news in my childhood. I.e. "In elections in the DDR, votes have been counted and 98% voted for the Communist party and Erich Honecker, the remainder voted for Socialist workers party"
And thinking - what is the point of having elections under such circumstances?

No doubt there were many people who DID believe in communism and were quite happy to vote for it. But there must have been plenty of people who preferred to vote for something else and considered the who thing silly and insulting.