My family never mentioned anything about voting. They had to go to May Day parades and other similar events, but there was never any voting (even of the fake kind).
Maybe it changed over time, I’m mainly familiar with the early USSR but I believe at that time they voted for candidates nominated by the party. But it was more of a formality since they were basically never rejected and they couldn’t vote on leadership, just the low level reps.
That does sound right for early USSR. I don’t think this was a thing anymore in the 70s/80s (I was born in the tail end of the USSR, but I was really young).
I will ask my family members about this. Curious if this was even employed as a formality by the 80s.
I know there were fake elections, I just don’t remember any of my family mentioning the fake voting.
Maybe this was automated (the party voted for you) by the 80s? The turnout numbers in the last election section of the Wikipedia article seem incredibly high.
Technically they voted just didn’t get to vote on who they voted for lol
My family never mentioned anything about voting. They had to go to May Day parades and other similar events, but there was never any voting (even of the fake kind).
Maybe it changed over time, I’m mainly familiar with the early USSR but I believe at that time they voted for candidates nominated by the party. But it was more of a formality since they were basically never rejected and they couldn’t vote on leadership, just the low level reps.
Edit: You can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_Soviet_Union
That does sound right for early USSR. I don’t think this was a thing anymore in the 70s/80s (I was born in the tail end of the USSR, but I was really young).
I will ask my family members about this. Curious if this was even employed as a formality by the 80s.
Don’t know from which former socialist country you are from, but the Soviet Union had elections. Not free or useful ones, but they were there.
I know there were fake elections, I just don’t remember any of my family mentioning the fake voting.
Maybe this was automated (the party voted for you) by the 80s? The turnout numbers in the last election section of the Wikipedia article seem incredibly high.