Would You Say a in Communism?

i was always interested in an economic history, and why a progressis why? Well, because i grew up undher communism, where things weren't all that rose. Then i came to the west, and i realized that things could be much better. Why don't we compare western standards of living to day withwestern standards of living a hundred or 200 years ago? I think it's a question of freedom of speech and e freedom of association and a free media. So a takete the extant communist regime. To day, like like north corea a, a lot of people genuinely don't know that they live in a slave state which is 100 years behind the west.