There's something I don't understand...

I'd trust a German or Italian telling me how fucked up shit can be within a Fascist state. Even if someone didn't live during the times of Nazi Germany, or Fascist Italy, the horrid stories do pass from grandparents to parents to children. People in such countries have a better understanding of how a fascist state works than, for example, people from UK, that have only seen fascism from the outside.

So why don't people trust People from Eastern Europe that lived under communism for many decades, much closer to the present day than when Fascism existed? When we tell you that communism doesn't work, why won't you believe us, when we already went through this horrible experiment? Our collective memories of the crimes of communism are clearly much fresher than the collective memories of Nazi Germany.

So why this double standard in how serious you take the testimonies of fascist horrors, but deny the ones of communism, and accuse us of not remembering right, or being factually wrong somehow? It's been almost 80 years since Nazism ended. How do you know you're not misremembering how bad fascism is? How do you know the true beauty of fascism hasn't been muddied up by so much passage of time?

It's barely been 31 years since communism ended where I live. Don't you think we might know better?