• Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.ml
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    “Did people in the USSR hate their governments?” - https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#did-the-citizens-of-the-soviet-union-dislike-their-government

    “Did the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries have functioning democracies?” - https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#did-the-soviet-union-and-the-warsaw-pact-nations-have-functioning-democracies

    It’s also interesting how people who’s 50, who would have been around 18 when the USSR collapsed or their country seceeded and would have spent their entire adulthood and potentially a part of their teenhood bearing the shockwaves rocking every part of their country under the newly established capitalism (their supposed liberation and salvation and who their new governments claimed would fix literally everything and make them not miserable anymore) that nearly destroyed plenty of Eastern European countries, are overwhelmingly against the USSR, but the trend goes to far more favorable of the USSR the older you get. I’m sure it’s just nostalgia though, the oldest people are just behind on the times and their opinions don’t count.

    Edit: I fixed a miscalculation I made regarding how old people were when the USSR collapsed. My bad.

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        Do you think your silly comments serve a purpose besides to make you appear foolish?

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              I just like short circuiting auth scumbags who worship dictators. Tankies and fascists are two sides of the same coin, after all.

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                I think the only one who is short circuiting is yourself. You make no sense and sprout nonsense

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                    As I said, go back to your Fox News. You use the term tankie unironically so if you think that any normal person cares what you have to say, I mean, I don’t think I even have a response to that

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              “Everything I don’t like is holocaust denial: a dishonest child’s guide to political slander”

              Stalin also committed genocide, and he killed even more of his own people than Hitler did. He was also Hitler’s ally until he was betrayed by that ally. Tankies and fascists are two rotten peas in the same pod.

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                Stalin did none of that. Perhaps try reading a fucking book. Stalin signed a treaty with Hitler, just like all the countries in Western Europe. The difference is that Stalin first tried to get the Western European countries to ally against Hitler. They refused of course, because they love their fascism. Equating Stalin to Hitler is very fascist behavior.

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                Are you calling a mainstream Jewish holocaust scholar a dishonest child doing political slander?

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                  If he’s saying that criticism of the USSR is holocaust denial, that is the camp he’s placing himself into.

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                    He isn’t saying that though, he is saying equating communists and fascists holocaust trivialization.

                    Equating and criticizing aren’t the same thing. You’re equating.