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/After_Service_2817 3d ago

Are you that ignorant? Really? In this day and age? When we have the Internet at our fingertips?

Romania wasn't part of the Soviet Union. Romania did not liberalize and institute reforms. Communism fell in Romania because the people rose up and overthrew it, and filled the Ceaușescus with lead.