OurToothbrush

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[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

Cowbee already answered your question but I'd like to point out that as a German you really need to be careful about what propaganda you believe about the Soviet Union and Stalin. Keep in mind that Germans killed 26 million soviet citizens less than a hundred years ago.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago (33 children)

Oh look holocaust trivialization

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No country is an angel though, at the same time Britain was intentionally starving Indians and the US had Japanese American citizens (including children) in concentration camps

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

I dont know when but within the context of conversations it was before they left China

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've talked to Chinese foreign exchange students who learned about it in school

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

How has China been picking up the slack? Who have they couped or invaded? Who have they sanctioned?

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago

Hey, just so you know for when you make decisions in the future, calling socialist states fascists is rooted in double genocide theory.

This Wikipedia article has a good list of sources about double genocide theory and how it serves to trivialize and obscure the holocaust: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_genocide_theory

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I love it when people call a transitional economy state capitalist because it betrays a lack of understanding of actually existing capitalism and the role the state plays in it.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Note the lack of citation.

Also yeah Yeltsin was a real hero, just don't ask what he did after he bombarded parliament, and don't ask why the US had to interfere in former USSR elections including the 1996 Russian election to make sure that nationalists and not communists won.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

This was the text (translated):

Do you consider it necessary to preserve the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a renewed federation of equal sovereign republics, in which the rights and freedoms of a person of any nationality will be fully guaranteed?

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago

I am however saying that regardless of the facts

That's nice, have a good day!

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

Huh, TIL. The main point still stands that the soviet union actually made a lot of progress on human rights, even compared to imperialist countries with more accumulated capital.

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