Trust me, it's a *slightly* different perspective once you *actually* had to endure the authoritarian rule during your *entire* youth - as I had to until we brought that wall down with mass protests, originally demanding *actual* socialism instead of that fake shit show.
Later on, when it was deemed safe to do so, the cowards and elderly came crawling out, said they didn't want any further "experiments", stating we're "one country" instead of the early claim of "we are the people".