What was life like in Syria before the Arab Spring?

idyllic

>>69332307
THE DELEGATES

It was wonderful, full of happy children with gumdrop smiles, candy that grew on trees, and rivers of chocolate flowing through the land.

>>69332307
Same as after. Someone is still after all the oil profits.

THE DELEGATES HAFEZ

>>69332307
fucking the same expect less murder and less shootings. before there was literally no freedom of speech + sharia law + poverty + high crime rates + utterly low infrastructure, do you really think that arab spring just happened for no reason?

>>69332307
cold, it was the Arab Winter

>>69335114
>Sharia law
>in Syria
Western education everyone

>>69332307
Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbM4trP42NY

>>69335114
on war videos it actually looks much better than russia

>>69335533
>tfw no qtp2d secular westernized Levantine grillfriend

They literally had free uni/college, good and affordable healthcare, 24/7 electricity and a generally better infrastruction
It frustrates me that people don't know what kind of blessing they lived under

t. Lebanon with vpn that lacks all of the mentioned above

>>69335114
>freedom of speech
Dont talk shit about the gov everything else was okay
>sharia law
Wrong
>poverty/low infrastructure
Wrong
>crime rates
Also BS

>>69335656
>infrastruction
infrastructure

>>69335114
Fucking retard

>>69335114
Actually their lives before are much better than here.

Not too bad for the middle East desu. Power, education and healthcare was pretty good in the city. No civic rights though and was still a dictatorship

It's a shame Bashair is profoundly incompetent and dies not understand cause and effect, or Syria would probably be idyllic rn