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[-] RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

The USSR wasn't perfect (and Stalin ruined most things that were good obviously) but they weren't any worse than the USA or the west.

[-] KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

Your reading comprehension really is something to behold. You basically just disagreed with me by saying exactly the same thing I just fucking said.

[-] RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah okay, fair enough, I kinda only read the start and end of your post. I guess I agree with you then. I still think the USSR gets too much hate in general though. I vociferously defend the USSR around liberals and attack it around M-Ls lol.

[-] KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

My opinion on the USSR is that Lenin was cool, Trotsky was cool, and everyone else deserved to be hanged in Minecraft

[-] weirdwallace75@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Lenin and Trotsky were mass murderers.

[-] brain_in_a_box@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

What do you think a revolution is?

[-] weirdwallace75@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Not the massacre of the Kronstadt Rebellion:

Disappointed in the direction of the Bolshevik government, the rebels—whom Leon Trotsky himself had praised earlier as "adornment and pride of the revolution"—demanded a series of reforms: reduction in Bolshevik power, newly elected soviets (councils) to include socialist and anarchist groups, economic freedom for peasants and workers, dissolution of the bureaucratic governmental organs created during the civil war, and the restoration of civil rights for the working class.

Convinced of the popularity of the reforms they were fighting for (which they partially tried to implement during the revolt), the Kronstadt seamen waited in vain for the support of the population in the rest of the country and rejected aid from emigrants. Although the council of officers advocated a more offensive strategy, the rebels maintained a passive attitude as they waited for the government to take the first step in negotiations. By contrast, the authorities took an uncompromising stance, presenting an ultimatum demanding unconditional surrender on March 5. Once this period expired, the Bolsheviks raided the island several times and suppressed the revolt on March 18 after shooting and imprisoning several thousand rebels.

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Trotsky and his commander-in-chief, Sergey Kamenev, had approved chemical warfare by gas shells and balloons against Kronstadt if the resistance continued.

Not the Red Terror

[-] tumble_weeds@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I kinda only read the start and end of your post

You should try learning to read, it will change your life.

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