• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    I should have probably said Soviet empire or whatever. Obviously I meant the aggressive expansion and funsie deals with nazies so they both get to commit their own little genocides

    • SSJ2Marx [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      The Red Army stopped the Holocaust and saved the world from fascism while the western powers were playing with their dicks in Africa. They only invaded France after it became clear that Soviet victory was inevitable in order to prevent Western Europe from being liberated from capitalism.

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        8 months ago

        Just because soviets did 1 right thing after nazis stabbed them in the back, doesn’t make them the good guys. Somehow you forgot to mention that soviet rapearmy also illegally occupied all the territory they passed on the way to Berlin

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          8 months ago

          I don’t smoke because it’s bad for my lungs.

          That said, I’ll leave you with a quote from Thomas Mann,

          To place Russian communism on the same moral level with Nazi fascism, because both are totalitarian, is, at best, superficial, in the worse case it is fascism. He who insists on this equality may be a democrat; in truth and in his heart, he is already a fascist, and will surely fight fascism with insincerity and appearance, but with complete hatred only communism.

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          8 months ago

          You’re wrong on two key points:

          1. USSR and Nazi Germany only made a nonaggression act after other Western countries did because Western powers purposefully did not invite the USSR. It was a way to try to protect Czechslovakia and Poland since the Westerns were simply giving up Central Europe to the Nazis. You can read more about it here.

          2. The famine in the USSR was not a genocide. That is Nazi propaganda. Read about it here.

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            8 months ago

            Even if you exclude holomodor, to quickly quote wikipedia, even soviet leaders agreed that Stalin was committing genocide

            “On 26 April 1991 the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, under its chairman Boris Yeltsin, passed the law On the Rehabilitation of Repressed Peoples with Article 2 denouncing all mass deportations as “Stalin’s policy of defamation and genocide.””

            And how exactly were they “protecting Poland”? Sticking it in the mouth while Adolf was grinding the rear?

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              8 months ago

              The USSR entered Poland to protects its borders the day after every official fled and abandoned the country. There was no longer a Poland in any sense. The USSR is the one that liberated and reestablished Poland. How do you not know the basic facts of something you’re talking about holy shit