Comments on: Banana past

By: Perry de Havilland

Perry de Havilland — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:58:02 +0000

People like teerbal are why a process analogous to de-Nazification should have been conducted in the former communist nations (and it is still not too late). In some ways what happened in Romania (i.e. Communists ending up hanging from street lamps or dead in the gutters) was preferable to just letting them slink off into the night. The Nazis were not allowed to so why should their spiritual twins the Communists have gotten off so lightly?

By: Adriana

Adriana — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:56:06 +0000

Excellent. This is getting fun, really. Thank you sooo much for this wonderful display!

By: Teerbal

Teerbal — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:50:50 +0000

Now I am offended.
You will definitely regret this one day. True communism is a much more advanced and socially fair system than any other existing now. My prediction – Europe will start approaching this in 2040’s. You should pack your bags and flee to U.S. before then – only a humble suggestion…

By: Adriana

Adriana — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:24:31 +0000

Splutter, splutter, splutter Mr Teerbal. Thanks for showing your true colours.

Long live capitalism!

By: Teerbal

Teerbal — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:21:25 +0000

Communism was the best that could have happened to Central- and Eastern Europe. Pity it was replaced by the cruel capitalism. In some decades, the socialisation of the west (progressive income taxes getting huge, lower incomes lifted up so that there is no difference between the classes) will reach the stage that it almost won’t be any different to communism of the east back then. It is a pity that Gorbachev destroyed everything and had let go all the East Europe. A sad moment in history of your and my countries.

By: Adriana

Adriana — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:44:55 +0000

Blah, blah, blah, Teerbal.

And the authors of the Black Book of Communism also made it up. Get some perspective and some facts too.

What I find astonishing is that you have the audacity to doubt the story of those who lived under the communism. You seem to be oblivious to the oppression and the suffering that so many was subjected to.

I still wonder why you protest so much, why would my experience of communism would be unacceptable to you?

By: Teerbal

Teerbal — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:16:04 +0000

I am from Hungary and I know what communism was like. Nothing how you described it. But for the crowd here, I could say that white bears are walking on the streets in Russia and everybody would knock their heads and beleive it. If I said that I licked crumbles off the bread-shop’s floor because there was no food in my country in 1980, 90% of the crowd in Europe would beleive it. Try posting the article in your language in a decent blog in Czech rep. or somewhere in the eastern hemisphere, and I assure you – people who witnessed the past will disagree with you. Poor you.

By: Perry de Havilland

Perry de Havilland — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:06:53 +0000

Oh, never mind Teerbal, he is just another one of those David Irving types trying to pretend the evils of the 20th Century never really happened. For people like him the truth is intolerable.

By: Adriana

Adriana — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:38:49 +0000

Teerbal, how exactly am I misleading? How is what I say an ugly lie? Methinks you protest too much. I’d like to you know exactly which bit of my recollections is bullshit. In any case, my story is not the only one and you can’t silence them all.

You don’t need to worry about my past or future, it’s your past I am concerned about. You imply that you are not part of the ‘western crowd’ and that your experience or view of communism is diametrically opposite to mine. Well, doesn’t take much to work out what to people like you…

By: Teerbal

Teerbal — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:42:31 +0000

Adriana,
your text and comments are incredibly misleading. I am glad that only the western crowd that had never seen the communist world with its own eyes and watches only CNN and BBC-like news and analytics can fall for your **llshit. Beautiful phrases telling ugly lies, nothing more. I am sorry for your **cked up life in Czechoslovakia, but, girl, you have to shake off the past and look forward to the future. That will help you to be more objective in many aspects.

By: Adriana

Adriana — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:17:18 +0000

Ice Scribe: Many thanks for the recommendation. Will check it out.

I find the film “Goodbye Lenin” capturing the absurdity and sadness of everyday life under communism just right. Amazingly accurate and highly recommended.

By: Perry de Havilland

Perry de Havilland — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:10:12 +0000

“If you exclude part of a population for owning shares simply because of an idealogical belief then surely you are starting to become that which you despised.”

That would be true if all ideological beliefs were equal, but they are not. Should Goering and Himler have just been left with the expectation that they would be able to run for office in a democratic Germany in 1945 if they agreed to surrender in 1944? Yet Communist tyrants got exactly that sort of treatment.