>>15343505Highest quality of life, in the Warsaw Pact.
Generally pretty good for the unimaginative and the apolitical. You kept your head down, kept your opinions to yourself, and assuming you were content with never getting to explore the world, you'd live a stable life with housing, a steady job, and retirement taken care of.
Shit really sucked for anyone who broke that mold. Make a joke about Genossen Honecker and suddenly you get expelled from university for some reason. Maybe a Stasi guy overheard you say "I want to visit England one day" and now he thinks you're an imperialist sympathizer and you're blacklisted from travelling. Shit like that would literally cripple your life, if you had any aspirations or ambitions.