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not really
vietnamese can leave, chinese can and do go everywhere. cubans too.
Oh, cool, I must have hallucinated all of those emigration restrictions during the Cold War, along with the Berlin Wall and civilians getting machine-gunned for trying to leave their glorious socialist paradise. Silly me.
Amazing how far fascists will go to deny reality.
Yeah, now they can. You wanna remind me what the most pro-free market country in Asia is?
Since the 80s, sure. Before that, not so much. You also wanna remember what happened to China's economy in the 80s? Something that rhymes with 'Lengism'? Unless you want to claim China today as socialist, in which case, I have a few hundred People's Billionaires to sell you.
Wanna remind me how Cubans escaped to the US throughout the Cold War and into the modern day?
Funny enough, you completely missed one of the socialist countries that DIDN'T have ridiculous emigration restrictions during the Cold War, but I guess Yugoslavia just isn't pure enough for you lot.
if we are talking about heavily propagandized policies enacted 100 years ago to try and curb imperialism, we could be talking about all the death bought upon them by the west.
the us is the very last country that can talk about machine gunnings, because they were the ones sponsoring most of it through all of recent history, including and especially in the socialist countries you seem to hate so hard for.... doing just that?
americans and the brits did full on scorched earth in vietnam and china, and nowadays they have healthcare while you are still shooting up kids in schools. the us sponsored dictatorship throughout my entire continent. literally.
talk about denying reality. i guess they don't teach you world history for a reason. nononono everyone else is the fascist here.
He said that the Commie countries had many people wanting to leave, because they were shit holes. Which is true. Soviets broke our economies, killed our innocents (Milada Horáková) and hurt the people. Go to hell sov-tard