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[-] LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 day ago

University students lead the Hungarian Revolution, and history doesn't remember them fondly. They rebelled against the Soviet Union, which makes them Nazis. It's a good thing our dear leader Stalin sent the tanks in to kill those students.

[-] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

I had to look it up (dont know much about it), but in the Wikipedia entry it notes:

Time named the Hungarian Freedom Fighter its Man of the Year

And

In 2006, Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány referred to this famous Time cover as "the faces of free Hungary" in a speech marking the 50th anniversary of the uprising.

Which makes me think they were later vindicated. But maybe I'm missing something.

[-] rektdeckard@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I may be wrong and lack any historical knowledge on the subject, but I think author is sarcastically self-identifying as a tankie?

[-] LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 day ago

I'm not a troll, I'm a 100% serious and proud Marxist-Leninist. And I think there was nothing wrong with Stalin selling lumber and steel to Nazi Germany in the 1930s to make weapons with. Because I'm a real communist!

[-] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

Ok but you are a troll. You're just not very good at making jokes because when called out you are doubling down on being stupid

[-] LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe 4 points 18 hours ago

How DARE you!? I would never satirize Marxist-Leninist positions to raise awareness of problems with the Soviet Union and promote anarchism as a viable alternative. Because anarchists are all stinky!

[-] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Oh its 100% possible, I have no idea.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

The guy you're responding to is a liberal doing a piss-poor satire of a ML.

The students protests was quickly co-opted by nazi collaborators entirely unaffiliated with the students, it'd be like if Jan 6 happened during the 2020 protests.

The government vindicating those protestors also built monuments to nazi collaborators.

It's a complex issue, the students had genuine issues the government was failing to address, but if the soviets didn't step in, things would have been far, far worse. For comparison, here's what tended to happen in countries that failed to stop the counterrevolution around that time.

[-] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, that is why it was justified to shoot protesters. Because of what might have happened. The people are clearly misguided, we need to roll over them with tanks to prove we are the true proletariat. A lot of governments built monuments to Nazi collaborteurs. That doesn't mean jack shit. Hitler was vegetarian and against animal abuse.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 3 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, that is why it was justified to shoot protesters

If that's what you think I'm suggesting, you need to work on your reading comprehension.

There were protesters protesting for a change in government, there were organizers setting up alternative structures to compensate for the government's failure, there were also fascists lynching government officials in the streets.

Are you suggesting it would have been better to just let the fascists seize power?

A lot of governments built monuments to Nazi collaborteurs. That doesn’t mean jack shit

Oh lmao.

[-] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, that is why it was justified to shoot protesters

If that’s what you think I’m suggesting, you need to work on your reading comprehension.

[...]

Are you suggesting it would have been better to just let the fascists seize power?

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[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Let me simplify this for you: Shooting communist protesters trying to reform the system is bad. Shooting fascists lynching people in the street is good and necessary.

[-] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Why would you say something so based, and so true?

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