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Seeing libs seethe about “too many tankies” is really funny. (lemmygrad.ml)
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On stuff outside of lemmygrad, we are receiving a lot of hate, especially by those who just moved from Reddit. Guess they lost their hidden privilege at Reddit as their rhetoric used to be almost universal over there, while genzedong and our other subs get censored and banned. And now, on lemmy, their stuff isn’t universal, as we are more prevalent here. Seems like they really want that hidden privilege back

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[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. If you've seen a self-proclaimed Marxist say that the state is wholly negative, they were not, in fact, a Marxist, but most likely an anarchist.
  2. Stalin being "one of history's most brutal dictators" is imperialist drivel; even internal CIA documents stated that the USSR had collective leadership. If you're talking about the leadership as a whole, there are certainly things to criticize -- there were undoubtedly excess imprisonments and executions during wartime, because they were defending humanity against fascism, there were fascist collaborators in various republics (such as Solzhenitsyn, the liberal darling), and the survival of the USSR was at stake, but such excess could be found in many other countries (perhaps most prominently the concentration camps for Japanese people in the US, whose survival was very much not at stake). This propaganda has not been accepted by many countries in the Global South, and I would challenge you to provide some actual evidence (on par with that provided for Nazi Germany, the US, Israel, or other fascist regimes).
[–] FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Stalin being “one of history’s most brutal dictators” is imperialist drivel; even internal CIA documents stated that the USSR had collective leadership.

Here is one such document for anyone that is curious: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf

[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

that's the one 👍

[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you I had been looking for this