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[–] Annakah69@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

You have a lifetime of anti communist propaganda to overcome. You're close, take the last step and realize you've been lied to about AES countries. No place is a utopia, but those countries are lights in the dark.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this most of us, myself included were grew up believing the same things you do about China and the DPRK and every other socialist state. Because thats what we are all told living in the West under capitslist liberal regimes. We already know all this propganda you're repeating to us. We learned to see past it and seek out actual information about these places to understand for ourselves.

Internationalism is the most important aspect of socialism. If you choose to believe nationalist western propganda over people you should be in solidarity with, you will only help your oppressors

[–] SunnyAdriano@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] diskmaster23@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Actually Existing Socialism”

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

those countries are lights in the dark

That's what North Koreans see at night when they look across the border towards South Korea.

[–] Annakah69@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Sanctions are hilarious! Bet the leveling of the country during the Korean war was a real laight too.

[–] SnAgCu@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

The US bombed and firebombed until there were "no more targets in Korea." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_North_Korea Examine the primary sources if you like, they're decent. It was comparable to genocide.

And now we point and laugh at the DPRK for being less developed than the US-backed South?

[–] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The US prevented a democratic unified korea and killed 20 percent of all Koreans. MacArthur had to have his nuclear command secreted away to prevent him nuking Korea.

Read about it or if youre not into reading listen to the blowback season.