meli65 's review for:

How We Survived Communism And Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulić

4.0

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This is an excellent book that I'd never heard of -- the author is Croatian and a little older than me and writes powerfully about the lived experience of women in Eastern European countries under Communism. It is very sobering to read about how dreadful and bleak life is under that regime.
Highly recommended to everyone these days given Russia's ascendancy and so many misled people thinking that authoritarian governments somehow serve anyone besides the ruling class.