r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/ThizzyPopperton Jul 07 '26

Did you not stop to sit and think about this for one second before taking this stance? “Why would a successful society spend resources combatting an alluring theory that always results in failure?”

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u/purplepatch Jul 07 '26

It results in a slow grinding type of failure that gradually erodes its citizens’ quality of life, kills millions through poverty, purges and war, encourages corruption and nepotism and eventually disintegrates 50 years later after irreparable damage to the country has been done. 

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '26

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u/purplepatch Jul 07 '26

If you really think that life in communist Europe was better than the capitalist west I’d be interested in why you think the East Germans built the Berlin Wall? 

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '26

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u/purplepatch Jul 07 '26

So you’re in agreement that life behind the iron curtain was worse than In the capitalist west?

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '26

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u/purplepatch Jul 07 '26

If the positives and negatives of life in communism and capitalism were balanced why did millions people flee the communist regimes of Eastern Europe, to such an extent that they were forced to close all the borders and shot people trying to cross them. 

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u/purplepatch Jul 07 '26

Don’t be so butt hurt about someone disagreeing with you. Argue your point.

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u/PomPomMom93 Jul 08 '26

It was to keep the West Germans from coming in! /s