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The British talking about Russia and Ukraine (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Szewek@lemm.ee 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, the "secret protocols dividing Eastern Europe" are a tiny, tiny detail. The UK and France decided to declare war on Germany because it was attacking independent countries. The USSR decided to join Germany in the war efforts, as long as they could. They also made programs of ethnic cleansing, mass incarceration and mass murder parallel to the Nazi ones. (They themselves admitted they were basically the same thing, claiming for years that the Katyn massacre was done by the Germans and not the Soviets). The power in the Soviet Union was concentrated in the hands of a very few people at the highest ranks of the Communist Party. Any independent self-organization, including independent workers' unions, was forbidden. Explain to me: What was so wonderful in all of that?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The UK and France decided to declare war on Germany because it was attacking independent countries.

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The USSR decided to join Germany in the war efforts, as long as they could.

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Can't wait for the next banger.

The power in the Soviet Union was concentrated in the hands of a very few people at the highest ranks of the Communist Party. Any independent self-organization, including independent workers’ unions, was forbidden. Explain to me: What was so wonderful in all of that?

Having actually grown up in USSR, this is hands down the dumbest shit I've read on this site today.

[–] Szewek@lemm.ee 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, I've also grown up in the former Eastern Bloc. So 1:1. Maybe you were part of the privileged group profiting from the Soviet imperialism? ;)

Also: Do you deny the Gulag, the oppression of all opposition, including any forms of self-organization, the Holodomor genocide, and the ethnic cleansing, e.g., of the Crimean Tatars?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

ah yes the PriVileGed GrOup ProFiTing FroM the SovIeT ImepriaLism seems to have been majority of the population in USSR 🤡

Also: Do you deny the Gulag, the oppression of all opposition, including any forms of self-organization, the Holodomor genocide, and the ethnic cleansing, e.g., of the Crimean Tatars?

Of course I deny your fascist propaganda. Holodomor genocide narrative was literally created by fascist and you've just exposed yourself by regurgitating it.

[–] Szewek@lemm.ee -1 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, the majority of the population. Everybody wanted to go to the USSR and the Eastern Bloc in general. That is why they built the Berlin Wall and heavily guarded all the borders with Western Europe. To stop all the migrants ;) (I prefer to trust people living at that time than the nostalgia.)

I agree that it is worse in Russia now than it was in the post-Stalin Soviet era, though.