[coldtea]

>if communism is so wonderful then I'm sure most of the former ComBloc countries will go back to it any day now...

Because wonderful things win over non-wonderful things in history? Yeah, sounds like a perfect criterion...

Besides, it never had a chance on an equal playing ground and have several things holding it down (including being implemented in countries that were underdeveloped to begin with, and with the full Cold War power of the biggest countries on Earth breathing down their necks, plus schemes ranging from mild like that in TFA to way worse going on against it).

Even so, for many of those that did live through it, there was a considerable pining for that era (for exampes ostalgie in ex-Eastern Germany), and some quite favorable polls in the later 90s even. Now, over 35 years on, it's mostly people who were raised entirely or in the biggest part after it that have the strongest opinions against it.

>the equivocation and whataboutism here is mindboggling

Yeah, god forbid somebody answers back... Don't they know they're supposed to just hate one side and praise the other?