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  • person1@lemm.eetomemes@hexbear.net"Its the Lesser Evil"
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    30 days ago

    At this point I guess we’re both using fucking Wikipedia. My bad, I must have selected the wrong version. I’ll try to link to regular Wikipedia next time! :) Meanwhile, no need to be hostile.

    Seriously, though - I think the Sources section in Wiki is plenty rich if you want to go and dig deeper or challenge the factuality of the wiki article itself (which I don’t think you are, but again, correct me).

    You are introducing the term “allies” to the discussion, so feel free to define it as you will. Soviets did invade Poland in 1939, and we remember how they treated Warsaw Uprising, what they did in Katyń, and what they did to people who fought for Polish independence. It was really nothing new vs. what pre-Soviet Russia was doing to us.

    I need to go get some sleep, goodnight everyone.


  • person1@lemm.eetomemes@hexbear.net"Its the Lesser Evil"
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    30 days ago

    “Would have loved”… “Expanded their border area”… That sounds so innocent. Inappropriate words for what that regime represented and what they did with the countries they colonized. The terror, genocides, poverty, famine and the sheer gray hopelessness of life for generations. It’s surreal reading people who praise them because they were “not as bad as Nazis”. Firstly - disputable claim. But even if you grant that (which many survivors of WWII would be reluctant to do)… that’s as low a bar as you can set.

    I understand that this is mostly posted/read by young Americans, rather privileged and removed from the subject matter. I’m hoping you can reconsider your positions - probably not now, but maybe some time in the future. Try to see this from the perspective of all those “buffer countries” full of non-people born into “zones of influence” where it’s ok to “expand your border area”. It’s extremely soulless.

    But at least this Lemmy instance hasn’t banned me (so far) for hating communism :)




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    1 month ago

    I wonder. I left Reddit to stop using American services. I was warned back then that Lemmy is only good for tech news and literal communists. I was very skeptical, but all the meme communities seem to be promoting hammer and sickle symbols. Last time I spoke out about it I was immediately banned from the community. This is so weird. Why are people standing behind hammer and sickle? It’s a horrible symbol with a horrible history, but many seem enamoured with it. Why? It’s illegal to use it where I live, just like it’s illegal to wear swastikas and heil hitler. It’s not at all a controversial law, never been protested, people just know our history. Why are Americans so quick to wear Soviet insignia?

    edit: spelling