I mean… What’s worse, what you’ve described, or paying 50% of your income for a basic apartment or else run from bulldozers as a homeless person? At least people had shelter.
Also all his statements are mostly lies. First was only true for a period where the country was rebuilding after nazi invasion which turned the most developed and inhabited cities into rubble; low wages are relative, they were low in dollars, but liveable due to low costs of living; assigning jobs was only true for people which didn’t found jobs themselves (which was incredibly easy compared to capitalism). There was also possibility to refuse any job whasoever, it resulted in classification as “social parasite” and more or less frequent harrassment by militia, but even then they still get some help from social services and had free healthcare and weren’t evicted.
I mean… What’s worse, what you’ve described, or paying 50% of your income for a basic apartment or else run from bulldozers as a homeless person? At least people had shelter.
Also all his statements are mostly lies. First was only true for a period where the country was rebuilding after nazi invasion which turned the most developed and inhabited cities into rubble; low wages are relative, they were low in dollars, but liveable due to low costs of living; assigning jobs was only true for people which didn’t found jobs themselves (which was incredibly easy compared to capitalism). There was also possibility to refuse any job whasoever, it resulted in classification as “social parasite” and more or less frequent harrassment by militia, but even then they still get some help from social services and had free healthcare and weren’t evicted.