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‘Andor’ Star: I Refuse to Stay Silent on Gaza (www.youtube.com)
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[–] -4 points 1 year ago (18 children)

That was a pretty cool move. Much cooler than the deportation, relocation, and execution of millions of peasants and ethnic minorities.

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    You're right, Stalin is a lot cooler than Churchill

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Or maybe they were both shitty? Recognizing the atrocities that occurred under Stalin's rule doesn't make somebody an apologist for Western leaders, and that certainly wasn't what I was implying.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm psychically sending you images of the Weenis right now.

    Note: The Weenis is a dance.

    Note 2: Everybody is a genius who knows it in advance.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Or maybe they were both shitty?

    Stalin's government massively improved the living conditions of working-class people, stopped the Holocaust and the Lebensraum (and was the most consistent and early enemy of nazi Germany), and helped anti-colonial movements.
    Yeah, nah, I can't call Stalin's government 'shitty'.

    Recognizing the atrocities that occurred under Stalin's rule

    'Atrocities' such as guaranteed housing, guaranteed access to healthcare, liquidation of illiteracy (all consequences of planned economy, by the way), a massive increase of life expectancy, cessation of famines.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    executions were inside the party though, or did 'les purges' now intertwined with collectivization and ww2 ethnic deportations in your brain? cause directly deaths cause by stalin are not in millions range, they are around 1.5-2.5 (700k in purges, 800~2000 in deportations in totality (again debatable what is the attribution of ww2 to hard conditions, but sure). famine is very debatable to be caused by one man, deaths in prison never have been attributed to country leaders, or i would like obama death count to be amended by 30k dead prisoners.

    leaving aside that, vietnam war killed two millions, people don't clutch their pearls over lbj or jfk fans, how come?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Much cooler than the deportation, relocation, and execution of millions of peasants and ethnic minorities.

    Correct, it is much cooler than the deportation, relocation, and execution of millions that your empire has been committing.

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