Originally Posted by symbian simian

Sorry, but no, you didn't live under communism (a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocatingclass war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.). Dictatorship, probably, definitely not a democracy, maybe fascist. You show me a country where the workers owned the factory. Just because it was called the communist party didn't make it any more communist than the Democratic Party in the US is "democratic". Parents lived in Romania. I have lived in 10 other countries.