Thread:ChineseSocialist/@comment-45659987-20200925033517/@comment-46983813-20200925210316

I see, just think you are confusing some things. My parents lived those times too and i consider them a little bit too biased to derg and mengistu's side since they believe they did no mistakes which i do believe they did. My family has reasons to like them though, they entered in an university for the first time and concluded their studies that time, a thing it would be impossible before the derg under the previous dictatorship of the nobles.

Those were difficult times i lost family members in the ogaden war but i dont think it is far to blame mengistu and derg for all disgraces that happened, we were constantly struggling against imperialism. Children soldiers were used by local warlords to resist the advances of the wslf and the somali terror, the army and their cuban allies never approved it but as i said before mengistu did not control all of the country and this caused a lot of misfortunes

It is very difficult to manage an economy and society normally when you have several different insurgencies and an invasion going on. Remember that despite also receiving foreign capitalist aid, mengistu managed to maintain a fiscal administration and national productivity that prevented them from falling into debt with other countries

I also do not think it is fair to call him a corrupt, certainly he was not perfect as i said many times but like he was one of the few politicians who actually cracked down on corruption in history of ethiopia, the people still remember his tough stance on corruption and they commented on it online when hailemariam desalegn visited him in zimbabwe

I have mixed feelings on abiy also, even being a communist i recognize the good stuff he has done, i really hope he improves the country and end all the crap the previous administration initiated, he is even trying to negotiate a form of mengistu and some former military personnel to return to the country. I feel like abiy will have to become more and more authoritarian for us to have a positive future, he needs to stop compromising with oromo and tigray retards like debretsion and jawar