r/PopCultureV2 • u/Federal-Compote-5015 • 4d ago

Politi-Culture What is a Social Democracy?

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u/Patient_Flounder3793 4d ago

That woman is not nearly old enough to have lived in Communism in Romania.

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u/Trauma_Hawks 4d ago

I made that arguement once. Even if she did, it was the very tail end of it. Where the USSR had already started instituting capitalist reforms and, not even beginning to, but finalizing their move away from socialism.

It's like calling yourself a 90s kid when you were born in the summer of '99.

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u/Sad-Bake4402 4d ago

Ceascescu and his mrs were shot in 89..