He has very shitty memory really, but I am sure he must remember something of what his Armenian family taught him because they are good at teaching their own the past. However, and this is something I failed to mention in my article, I've come to see that Armenians are also very left leaning by virtue of having become a ward of the soviet union, which used them at the end of WWI to increase their size. They basically promised them their own land if they joined the soviet union and in the end betrayed them by creating three separate countries in what they see as should be Armenia. And it's not only about remembering the past but learning from it and being able to use it to make predictions about the future. I had only read 1984 and other dystopian novels by 2006, which is the time I met him, and I already knew my country was going to shit. The last time he spoke to me he said that my country was only going "a little bit shittier than usual". I found his description very jarring as seeing children dead on the streets for protesting is more than "just a little shittier than usual", so I spat his own words back at him: "people die". He didn't say anything, so I just went ahead and blocked him. I am capable of holding grudges.

As for socialism, it does work: to bring misery. The problem is that people believe in the fallacious conclusion that it can ever bring happiness.