Yes , ignore literally everything about how you were wrong and focus on the three words why I left and see if I ' ll take the bait . That ' ll show me ! <| sep |> Hope you ' ve got a thick skin . <| sep |> We just made it illegal in BC Canada for tail and ear cropsdocks ! <| sep |> Are they Manning up and fixing trade for 3 . 0 ? <| sep |> I am not an American . It is hard to imagine a worse system than Stalinism so I agree that situation improved but things like push toward party membership to get a promotion and later things like party loyalty and political certainty that was necessary to get jobs . In order to move between cities you had to get a permit and leaving the country was very hard because passports were rarely given to the general public and the country was quite isolated from the outside world . Secret police was still a thing and no political and personal freedom in a sense that people in the Western Europe or USA know it was allowed . Just mass genocide and labour camps with millions of people were not as popular but USSR was still ruling Eastern Europe using tanks to crush dissidents like in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968