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I'm in the process of creating a series to show the harmful effects of Communism through interviewing Communism Survivors. What should I ask them?

I use this video here as a model: https://youtu.be/3lpTceEE3d8

Edit: The goal of this series is to stick these people's lives in everyone's face to show how horrible Marxism/Socialism/Communism is and do so many of these that people stop believing in such a horrible idology

I'm in the process of creating a series to show the harmful effects of Communism through interviewing Communism Survivors. What should I ask them? I use this video here as a model: https://youtu.be/3lpTceEE3d8 Edit: The goal of this series is to stick these people's lives in everyone's face to show how horrible Marxism/Socialism/Communism is and do so many of these that people stop believing in such a horrible idology

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If you can find some people that are from the 1960s/70s era Soviet Union, ask them about what was in the shops, what they could buy, how hard it was to get even a cheap Lada automobile.

I'm repeating a story a friend who is Russian on one side of the family. He told me of an aunt that somehow managed to get a visa in the late 60s or thereabouts, to visit family in the USA. They took her to Woolworth's, and she apparently cried at seeing all the yarn and the different colors you could get. She apparently immediately applied for political asylum with only what she had brought - left everything and everyone in Russia behind. Over yarn.

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Wow that's crazy. If your friend's aunt is willing to be interviewed, please dm me. I want to get as many as possible.

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That was 50 years ago. I don't think she's alive anymore, but I will ask.

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Yeah if she's still alive I'd definitely appreciate it. Any of the older ones from the USSR would be valuable to have