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Of course that's a figure of speech, but hey, ok.

With regards to the lunar new year break, Communist regimes actually have lots of public holidays. That's straight from their ideology, so not sure why you think that authoritarianism must equal to oppressing worker rights or the labour movement. That's why there is a distinction between the authoritarian left and the authoritarian right.




"[They eliminated] Almost everything, including the writing system" does not sound like a figure of speech to me, but you do you I guess.


Yeah, it's a figure of speech, specifically "puffery". It's not meant to be literal.




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