Red_Scare

yeah go ask a neonazi mi6 asset lol

Mayo was a staple of Soviet cuisine, you could hardly find a salad without it, it was also a common ingredient in pies and even in sweet cakes.

Which you would've known had you been real KGB, western spy!

Ah yes, Thuringia where Social-Democratic party Die Linke was under illegal surveillance for being "extremist"

https://www.welt.de/politik/article1562539/Beobachtung-von-Linkspartei-Politiker-verboten.html

Now neonazis are coming to power, who woulda thunk

It's like asking if doner kebab is some kind of shawarma, you'll get a lot of people upset but nobody will explain the actual difference

Whenever someone mentions kulaks I ask what they think about batraks and if they don't know the word I disregard their opinion, simple as that

Ok that's bs, prison conditions in general and work camp conditions in particular were what you would expect in a backwards agrarian country desperately fighting off waves of external aggression while trying to industrialise - horrific.

this ain't it chief

Funny thing, the person in question watched manufacturing consent (didn't read the book) and generally agrees mainstream news outlets are controlled by the capital (in many cases owned by capitalists and run for profit), but considers Wikipedia a step above - open, free, well sourcedᶜᶦᵗᵃᵗᶦᵒⁿ ⁿᵉᵉᵈᵉᵈ, edited by regular people, etc.