Sometimes I wonder if it's just anti-communist propaganda and actually communism wasn't all that bad.

​Sometimes I wonder if it's just anti-communist propaganda and actually communism wasn't all that bad. 

And then I remember that they were not allowed to leave.

That is the single fact that is hardest to explain to somebody who thinks that communism is good. 

In the communist countries where people were allowed to leave, they did all the time. 

For example, Yugoslavians were allowed to leave and they did en masse. Sending home money earned in capitalist countries is a large contributing factor to Yugoslavia being one of the richest communist countries

It's a hard to fake signal that whatever your country is doing is working if anybody can leave whenever they want, but it's rare, and you need permits to be allowed to come in, and they're hard to get.

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