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  • Hungary was also the best part of the Soviet Bloc to live in for the people.

    So it’s not just that modern Hungary is worse: communist Hungary is more miss-able than communist East Germany.

    Nigel Swain’s two books on the subject are good:

    • Collective Farms Which Work? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985)

    • Hungary: The Rise and Fall of Feasible Socialism (London: New Left Books, 1992)

    He’s writing from the perspective of a non-red English academic who’s like… “wait… this works?? how do we explain the anomaly?”

    Hungary had full shelves, booming agriculture, available consumer goods.