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[-] belastend@slrpnk.net 45 points 1 year ago

Didn't know the Cambodians, Polish, Kalmyks, Kazakhs, Tatars, Ukrainians, Anarchists, Left SRs, Trotskyists and Peasants were all Nazis. Must be fun to live in that world.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Finns who died defending their homeland from naked, opportunistic Soviet imperialism also wish to say hi.

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[-] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 year ago

Yeah, or they were LGBTQ+.

[-] zloubida@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Or a slightly different version of communist.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

Or any other flavor of leftist.

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[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Two things are true at once:

  • They did crimes
  • They fought even bigger criminals

And two things are true at once:

  • Descendants of their innocent victims consider them monsters, and they are correct and valid.
  • Descendants of the even bigger criminals that got "neutralized" hide among the other category, and they are dishonest.
[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago
[-] Tournesol@feddit.fr 13 points 1 year ago

reading that article, I mostly read that's it's debated and that what the famine were weaponized. Also, commentary on communism being the cause of them is largely dependent on the critic eye

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 18 points 1 year ago

Uh... Who the hell cares about any of that? Whether the Soviets shirked their responsibility to keep their (forcibly incorporated, mind you) subjects fed due to malice or malice-fueled incompetence matters about as much as whether the IDF is mass-murdering Gazans because they want to mass murder Gazans or because they're bombing any target their shitty AI gives them.

[-] Tournesol@feddit.fr 8 points 1 year ago

yeah so… we're talking about weather to put all the blame on communism in general. Communism is an ideology, not a government ?

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 10 points 1 year ago

The OP says communists, not communism so I'm not sure what brought that on.

[-] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Its debated by russian historical revisionism Most communist crimed have not seen wide coverage in english. This is why it's not okay to fly swastika but cool to fly hammer and cycle.

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[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

I mean, Stalinism wasn't communism, so that's a fair point.

[-] Nythos@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago
[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reminds me of the "real capitalism has never been tried" that right-wing libertarians retreat to when you point out the massive flaws which occur under capitalism – namely that those ills are the product of bastardizing capitalism with government regulation ("crony capitalism"). Where of course they get to dictate exactly what "real capitalism" is against the consensus of historians and economists– usually pure laissez-faire capitalism.

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[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

My mom was just telling me a while ago about how one of her uncles was tortured by the communists after they came to power. Small note: he was a member of the legionnaires, so I can relate to this meme.

[-] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 year ago

First they came for the grandfathers and I did not speak out, for my grandfather was a Nazi.

[-] Sunflier@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

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[-] Tautvydaxx@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Thats how its starts, first you tell them there are nazis and you want to liberate them from the nazis. Than you invade theyr countrie. Read about siberian gulags and how many “nazi grandperants” were sent there before boot licking these commies.

[-] Godric@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Did Trotsky have grandchildren? Or did the Communists exterminate his entire family line?

[-] superniceperson@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Why is this comm on .world? These people don't have anything but love for capitalism and will never sympathize with another human being.

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

How is comparing victims of communism to Nazis "sympathy"?

[-] superniceperson@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

'victims of communism' is a nazi term.

[-] belastend@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

Victims of Communists is better.

[-] belastend@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

They say, as they group minorities, Queer people and communists in with Nazis.

[-] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Can't support capitalism and the marginalized. Gotta pick one.

[-] belastend@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Apparently, you can also support neither :) as expertly demonstrated by the ignorance in this meme.

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[-] hakase@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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