>>18096283
It's the same in my country. The social-democrats got in power in the 1940s and formed an alliance with the Christian democratic bloc. They outlawed both fascist and communist parties. Together they implemented many social reforms in the first decade after taking power from the 8-hour work week to public healthcare, compulsory education and pensions. Many strategic industries were nationalized as well. In the 1980s when USSR started to collapse the same Christian socialdemocratic parties embarked on the biggest privatization campaign in my nation's history. Almost every state owned enterprise was sold out to international investors. Most of the social reforms were gradually rolled back too. The government did a complete 180 over a span of like a single electoral cycle. I'm not sure whether it was Lenin or Stalin who said that socialdemocratic parties are the greatest obstacle to socialism because they pull workers away from revolutionary politics, but looking at the state of modern socialdemocratic parties I can't help but agree in this assessment.