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[โ€“] 76 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The reason the 'So, your family suffered under "communism." Why should I care?' meme works so well is that the people communism oppressed were slaveowners, perpetrators and collaborators of genocide, and similar ghouls and/or goblins. You can't really go and kill children with their mothers and laugh it off the same way, doesn't work like that.

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  • [โ€“] 48 points 2 years ago*

    Somehow, even while they were killing, imprisoning, exiling, and otherwise oppressing these gusanos, life expediencies were skyrocketing so much that it doesn't show up in those statistics whatsoever soviet-hmm

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