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Just reposting this excellent point from lemmygrad

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[-] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Edit: A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

We now have literal “Soviets were godless barbarians” arguments. The revolution is never perfect enough, is it? Wish there was a time machine to send people back to moralize about doing what needs to be done and Christian moral goodness to the leaders of a nascent revolution being ruthlessly attacked on all sides. I’m going to reserve my tears for the thousands of dead Jews and millions of starving and dying peasants.

Maybe we can have a struggle session over dead teenage Nazis from WWII next time.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

I don't like this. While it was probably necesarry to kill the royal family to avoid a counter-revolution or a government-in-exile, that does not mean we should make death, murder or the fear of those about to be murdered into something to laugh at.
Yes the Tzar was a murderous bastard encouraging pogroms and generally just a guy who got off easy, this photo doesn't really convey that to me. It seems like it's just laughing at something awful that happened to a family. Did the family deserve it? Yes. That doesn't mean we should make the act into something funny. Violence is necessary, but it shouldn't be glorified.
I don't think it's a black & white thing, but this image crosses my line anyway. Feels wrong.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

I also don't like it, mostly because i fuckin hate wojak and every one of these images is incredibly ugly.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

The Russian Civil War ended when the Bolsheviks depicted the Whites as the cringe wojak and themselves as the Chad wojak.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

At first I wasn't going to upvote but I have to give props for kicking off a struggle session over the Romanovs lenin-laugh

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Would you look at the time? what-time-is-it

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Tune in next week for the Hexbear pity parade for veterans

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

Una mensaje muy Bien trans-gun

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

What does this translate to?

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

People always go on about Soviet art and Soviet architecture but one aspect of Soviet innovation that gets constantly overlooked is Soviet interior design, with Yakov Yurovsky being the progenitor of what I'd call Soviet deconstructivist interior design.

Truly Yurovsky is an unsung pioneer of this interior design movement.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

While we're doing Ipatiev House memes, here's this one:

(It's much funnier if you know what King George V looks like)

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

Did not know we had this emote lmao

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You tankies want to give us real leftists bad drywall? No wonder communism has never worked

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's the wall in the basement where the Romanovs were shot.

spoilerThe pun being basically transphobes get the wall

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