re: Back in the 70s, we had high gas prices and inflation, too.

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This is kind of off topic, but I was at my mom's house earlier this week.. And we were just having a conversation about what's going on in Ukraine and she said she remembers when she was in high school and everyone having to meet in the gym to learn about communism. This was the late 50s, but I never knew they were making kids in school aware of communism and why they should reject it, etc.

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We learned about different political systems in high school in the 70s, you didn't?

It wasn't an overt "Democratic Republic good, communism bad," kind of thing, but yeah we compared the two systems, along with monarchies.