Garden BBQ with my fam yesterday.
Everyone old enough to remember communism unisono agreed, across (a)political affiliations that in respect to the media censorship, self-censoring culture in public and the common othering of people for their opinions reminds them of the communist era. Communism 2.0. Just now, coming from the west.
Older generations earned their natural immunity against the communism, and they see it through, and can't get fooled twice.