You hear them say that this could never have happened in the old Communist days, and they're right.
Rather ugly building of Communist days but with good views and excellent phone system.
Villagers said material life was a little better in the Communist days, although not that much, but all rejected a return of the old.
The concept did not exist in more orthodox Communist days when everyone was supposed to be egalitarian - and lean.
In its more Communist days, China was relatively egalitarian as countries go, for no one had much of anything.
Old people sit on benches outside, and children play on the grounds, which were used for a circus in the Communist days.
Every minister is surrounded by the apparatchiks of the Communist days.
Even in Communist days, the unhappiness of Russian families was hard to hide.
Whatever bargains they could find made their way to Poland in its dark Communist days.
The whole process routinely takes two hours, just like in the old Communist days.