Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20140702204420/@comment-1496755-20141110203846

Today is a special date, people - 25 years since our communist regime fell.

The sad thing about it is that some people still feel nostalgic about it. They think about how food used to be cheap and how they could go on 2-week vacations at the seaside.

What they forget about, however, was the total lack of freedom, the secret police, the prison camps, the prohibition to leave the country (people who ran away through the border were automatically sentenced to death), the prohibition to listen to western music/wear western clothes/watch western movies, the constant ceremonies to show how loyal you are to the party, friends spying on friends (and then reporting them to the secret police), the brainwashing (starting from the age of 7), the forced labor of primary/secondary school students.

I am lucky that I missed most of these things - I was only 4 years old when the regime fell. But I've heard countless stories from my parents and grandparents. Really scary stories.

The moral here is: value your freedom because there are people in the world who still don't have it. And there is no telling if they ever will.