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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 34 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for your service

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for your service comrade

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

I saw it reposted all over. Thank you for your service 🫡

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Inb4 "tWo ThInGs CaN bE bad At OnCe" from someone comparing something real the empire is doing with a story that same empire told them about someone else.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

I suspect for some folks Stalin is bad because anyone else would have let the USSR capitulate to the wehrmacht invasion.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

They're a power mod on their instance too

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Regardless I don't think they're lamenting Germany's defeat.

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[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Funny that this is the exact same "logic" the libs use to try to defend running a pro-zionist, pro-corporate, pro-billionaire slimeball in the last US presidential election - "But Trump was worse!"

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago

It's not just a matter of the US being worse, this undermines the credibility of every single accusation regarding human rights that the US makes about any other country

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Stalin wasn't a saint, but he is overly demonized as compared to his peers. There has been a century of anticommunist mud-slinging at him, and now that the soviet archives are somewhat open, we can begin to actually judge him properly. Unlike Trump, Stalin was the leader of the world's first socialist state, and a good portion of soviet success in their earlier years can be attributed to policies he pushed for.

Demystifying Stalin

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

  • J. V. Stalin
  1. Nia Frome's "Tankies"

[8 min]

  1. W. E. B Dubois' On Stalin

[6 min]

  1. Domenico Losurdo's Primitive Thinking and Stalin as Scapegoat

[30 min]

  1. Domenico Losurdo's Stalin and Stalinism in History

[16 min]

  1. J. V. Stalin interviewed by H. G. Wells

[42 min]

  1. J. V. Stalin interviewed by Emil Ludwig

[38 min]

  1. J. V. Stalin interviewed by Roy Howard

[9 min]

  1. Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend

[5 hr 51 min]

  1. Ludo Martens' Another View of Stalin

[5 hr 25 min]

  1. Anna Louise Strong's This Soviet World

Stalin's Major Theoretical Contributions to Marxism

I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.

  • Che Guevara
  1. Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR

  2. Dialectical and Historical Materialism

  3. History of the CPSU (B)

  4. The Foundations of Leninism

  5. Marxism and the National Question

[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

because of daddy Stalin

😂😂😂😂 Che was a mood

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yea lol. I'm told it's much more friendly and less sexual in the original spanish, more a quirk of translation, haha.

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[–] MrMobius@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

"USA bad so Soviets good" is also propaganda.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

Propaganda just means pushing a particular viewpoint, said viewpoint can be correct. Secondly, the point isn't that the soviets were good because the US is bad, but that the soviets are judged unfairly and harshly compared to their peers, a product of the Red Scare.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Just because it's propaganda doesn't mean it's not true

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

you just blew somebody's mind right there

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The last time I said that and posted a dictionary entry definition, the user without an original thought claimed that's not the way the average person uses the word and I'm wrong. 🤷‍♀️

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago

Should have told the to pop a gander at deez nuts

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[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

stops at berlin
"I think they learned their lesson..."

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago
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