The redesigned mosques remind me of the Kaifeng synagogue, which is quite unlike any synagogue that I have ever seen. If you told me that it was a Confucian or Taoist monastery, I would have believed you.

I don’t see how a Union that prevented another Polish famine and helped reconstruct Poland was worse than an anticommunist empire that exterminated at least 1.8 million Poles in a settler-colonial project and would have annihilated millions more had the Axis won, but then again, I have nothing against Poles either. Sorry that you have no respect for your own people, I guess.

I understand that this is mostly posted/read by young Americans, rather privileged and removed from the subject matter.

Guess what, I can still find Poles like @Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml and @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml who aren’t anticommunist at all. You want a fucking medal or something? You aren’t anything special.

Wikipedia’s intentional distortion of the Holocaust.

The Soviets instituted the death penalty for possessing an antisemitic book.

Soviet policies lead Transnistrians to resist antisemitism, even during Axis occupation.

The Red Army had the highest number of Jews of all the Allied armies.

I’m disappointed that you are offering a low-quality source like the Financial Times for these serious accusations, and the shoddy reporting is apparent in the article itself:

In many areas, officials have told current and retired civil servants that their benefits will be taken away if they worship more than a few times per year, according to Hui human rights campaigner Ma Ju.

Which officals? Which current and retired civil servants? And why is the only source for this ‘a US-based campaigner for Chinese Muslim rights’? The lack of corroboration should be worrying. Relying on pseudonymous sources is usually not good reporting, either, as they have as many credentials as a common rumourer.

The conclusion is also confusing:

Two years later, these remarks were formalised into the government’s “Five-Year Plan on the Sinicisation of Islam”, which set out to standardise Chinese style in everything from Islamic attire to ceremonies and architecture, and called for the “establishment of an Islamic theology with Chinese characteristics”.

Hui Muslims like Mohammed still fear a possible future without Islam in China.

So, wait, Beijing wants to destroy Islam by… reforming it? I guess that that could be possible in some way, but the article does not explain how.

That being said, I don’t want to dismiss every claim in this article at face value, like restricting religion to adults (which, honestly, might be for the best), but if I believed that Beijing was trying to eradicate Islam then I would be dissatisfied with this article’s quality.

Although this does make me wonder if there are Chinese Muslims consenting to or even ordering these reformations. Perhaps @yogthos@lemmy.ml or @davel@lemmy.ml could inform me on this if they would be so gracious.

I know… but the grumpy leftcom in me still prefers the strict criteria.

Paradoxically, I think that most ultraleftists would roll their eyes at me anyway for having a mostly positive view of the People’s Rep. of China.

These are some of the reasons why I would argue that it is wrong to place the People’s Rep. of China in the category of a generic capitalist country. I actually consider the Chinese economy to be presocialist, but the evidence that I have seen suggests that capital, the law of value, and generalised commodity production are all steadily shrinking in terms of prominence and importance, which is the opposite of what we would expect to find under a typical capitalist régime (id est a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie).

but whyyyyyyy do you trust Chinese sources??? huh???

Adivina quem teve a ideia de colonizar Palestina.

What are you talking about? Every single information source in the United States is always constantly talking about how great the PRC is, whether it’s in schools, on television, on websites (especially Reddit), on the radio, from think tanks, and so on. A perspective like ‘China also invests in genocide and mass detention, torture, surveillance and rape’ should blow your mind away: nobody has ever said that before! How can you read that and remain unpersuaded‽

Oh. That is a good point. You really showed us how wrong we were. I wish that I were as smart as you.

https://lemmy.ml/post/25861032

Yeah, when you make easily falsifiable claims like ‘memorials or to draw attention to the deeds, not to honor it’, it is pretty clear that you did not read a damn thing that I linked to you, proving that you don’t care about Fascism after all. Thanks for the confirmation.

Feel free to keep goofing around here but I’m done with you.

Do you not even understand how time works?

Most anticommunists don’t. There were anticommunists who thought that the G.P.U. still existed after 1934.

I am giving you a very simple and very easy test so that you can demonstrate to everybody your reading comprehension and your ability to engage in conversation. You are neither required to divulge any personally identifiable information nor depart with any possessions. Now I am going to ask you for the third and final time: tell me what I wrote at the bottom of this comment.

Máo was particularly annoyed by the Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus, 树麻雀) part of the diet of which was grain. Chinese scientists had calculated that each sparrow consumed 4.5kg of grain each year — and that for every million sparrows killed, there would be food for 60,000 people. Armed with these statistics, Máo launched the Great Sparrow Campaign to address the problem.

[…]

The campaign against the sparrows was finally terminated in late 1959 when the Academy of Sciences leaders highlighted the findings of scientists such as Zhu Xi and Zheng Zuoxin. Zhu and Zheng had autopsied the digestive systems of sparrows and found that three-quarters of the contents were harmful insects and only one-quarter was human food. This showed that sparrows were beneficial for humans.

On this advice from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Máo declared a complete halt to the Great Sparrow Campaign, replacing sparrows with “bed bugs” in the “Four Pests” campaign. Suddenly sparrows were not just protected but the domestic population was supplemented by imports of sparrows from [Soviet] Russia!

Eventually, after several years of poor crop yields, the situation began to improve. The number of people who starved in the 1958–1961 famine is disputed — and it’s impossible to say how much of the disaster was caused by the extermination of sparrows — but there can be no doubt that this episode is a stark lesson about the unintended consequences of human interference into natural ecosystems.

(Source.)

No, I’m giving you a very simple request: tell me what I wrote at the bottom of my comment. Copy the text and paste it in your next reply to me. You know how to copy and paste text, right?

Okay, here’s something easy for you: what did I write at the bottom of my comment? Can you tell me what I wrote? Tell me what I wrote.

There are still Fascist sculptures in Germany, Fascist monuments in Italy, Axis monuments in Japan, Axis collaborator monuments in Ukraine, Axis collaborator monuments in the Baltics, and many other works and street names dedicated to either Axis personnel or their collaborators throughout the world.

Also, please stop marking your English comments as ‘Deutsch’. It’s annoying.

https://archive.org/details/ellen-bruno-and-jacques-hersh-socialist-korea-a-case-study-in-the-strategy-of-ec