Apartheid-era South Africa or post-Stalin USSR: which was more oppressive?

[Tooting Carmen]

A perfectly legitimate, serious, non-trollish question. Was it worse to live in a strictly racially segregated society with countless controls and restrictions where, nonetheless, for a portion of the population there was a (sort of) parliamentary democracy and a (sort of) open media? Or a society which, while promoting equality and unity on the surface, was actually a one-party State where wealth and power varied depending on how far up the Party one was placed, and where various restrictions and controls also occurred?

[LightHouse89]

Republican and Democrat America.

[Jerban]

Apartheid IMO.

[Tooting Carmen]

Republican and Democrat America.

I'm no huge fan of the USA, but worse than Apartheid or Communism? Be serious now.

[Kamal900]

Hmm, hard to say, but i think its the apartheid south Africa was more oppressive. Shame we still have it in the middle east *cough*Israel*cough*

[Tooting Carmen]

Hmm, hard to say, but i think its the apartheid south Africa was more oppressive. Shame we still have it in the middle east *cough*Israel*cough*

It's funny, because in older threads you were very critical of Mandela and downplayed how cruel and oppressive the Apartheid regime was.

[Kamal900]

It's funny, because in older threads you were very critical of Mandela and downplayed how cruel and oppressive the Apartheid regime was.

I told you in private message how was my ideology back then, and for that i do apologize.

[Tooting Carmen]

Anyway, I think that Mikhail Gorbachev and FW De Klerk are two of the 20th Century's greatest leaders, precisely because they brought these two appalling tyrannies to a (relatively) peaceful end.

[Tooting Carmen]

bump

[armenianbodyhair]

Needless competition that trivializes the suffering of the victims.