More on Communism’s putrid / spirit-destroying legacy–and from someone who should know.
"None of the formerly communist nations has been able to avoid the phenomena that characterize post-communism: corruption, demoralization and the loss of any sense of ethics," says Vaclav Havel.
"Post-communist depression," Havel calls it: "When a prisoner is released from jail ..he suffers under the weight of making his own decisions."
The former Czech president is still alarmed by the poison that communism planted in its subjects.
Entire (horrifying but unsurprising) article (in Spanish) here .
Ghastly
When you remove God from a society, you remove what little restraint most people have. This is why communism is especially vile among the various forms of dictatorships. This is why the Russian mafia, in cahoots with the old Soviet Union's KGB, control Russia today with little respect for anything but power and money.