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history rhymes, or something (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[-] [email protected] 149 points 3 months ago

Let's see...

Nazism
McCarthyism
Vietnam War
Racial Injustice
South African Apartheid
Occupy Wall Street
Gaza Genocide
etc.

I am curious. Has there ever been a wide-scale student protest movement that WASN'T unequivocally vindicated by history?

[+] [email protected] -17 points 3 months ago

University students lead the Hungarian Revolution, and history doesn't remember them fondly. They rebelled against the Soviet Union, which makes them Nazis. It's a good thing our dear leader Stalin sent the tanks in to kill those students.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

I had to look it up (dont know much about it), but in the Wikipedia entry it notes:

Time named the Hungarian Freedom Fighter its Man of the Year

And

In 2006, Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány referred to this famous Time cover as "the faces of free Hungary" in a speech marking the 50th anniversary of the uprising.

Which makes me think they were later vindicated. But maybe I'm missing something.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I may be wrong and lack any historical knowledge on the subject, but I think author is sarcastically self-identifying as a tankie?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Oh its 100% possible, I have no idea.

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