Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20150204202730/@comment-1496755-20150317083505

Indeed, evil Western music and movies corrupt our perfect socialist society! We cannot allow cultural subversion! Down with Imperialist propaganda!!!

(oh yes, they really believed and said these things)

Tanks have always been a symbol of communist "friendship". In Bulgaria, at the time when the regime was on the brink of collapse, there was a big protest. And the party chairman at the time panicked in one moment and said "The tanks had better come", but luckily this didn't happen (it could have resulted in a massacre). And afterwards he even had the nerve to deny saying this, but it was recorded on camera, so everyone soon knew that he had really said it.

I remember seeing many tanks in my childhood... but nowadays it's super rare to see one. I also remember some of the old monuments - Lenin, five-pointed stars, heroic Soviet soldier figures, etc. Most of them were removed but a few remain.

I think it's cool that I was able to witness some of these things with my own eyes. For the younger folks, these things are just stories they heard from someone or read in a history textbook.