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Victims of Communism
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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2025
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I only left this commentary because for me making a meme with mentioning only her father is kind of manipulation. There is the fact that her family (mother) was oppressed. Technically speaking she doesn't lie when she is is saying that. The "meme" is trying to portrait it like she is lying by providing only half of information and by ignoring another half. I just do not like it. And it is not against what did you say.
Thanks for the clarification... sorry if it sounded I was going after you, actually I read your comment as you intended.
What I was venting about is about how the media that, today, works as memes only portrayed one side of her story... something like this meme does too. Now, if we are going to be that simplistic, this meme captures far more her experience under the Soviet rule than her moms after WWII.
I agreed about media. The story is much more complex as usual, there was good and there was bad about USSR. I do not like the idea of taking only good or only bad about USSR from the history to aggressively and manipulatively push somthing.
And I do not like when anyone's family past is used for politival advantage or disadvantage. Like why is it matter where who was born, who was one's grandpa or something, etc. when we are talking on current days politics? Focus on the present problem.
So true on the USSR.
On using personal narrative for advance I am fine, but has to be more or less genuine to the context. If I say that my neighbor is horrible because once took my lawnmower and never returned it back and leave the part that he bought me later on a better one because he broke mine... I have been completely disingenuous.