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Western consumerism was actually one of the main reasons why Eastern Europeans stopped believing in communism. Seeing people in the West spoilt of choice for basic goods and affording them made communism a dead ideology.



Many quickly got disillusioned when they immigrated though. The more things change, the more they stay the same.




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