Had a heated argument with a tankie who glorified stalin and lenin. So fucking tired. The worst thing he's a discord mod of a good streamer, and i left the server because i can't be there anymore. Context: i'm russian whose grand-grandparents were repressed and forcibly relocated. Left Russia several years ago because i didn't want to support the aggressive war in Ukraine. And his american (no offense to amreicans tho) ass tried to explain me that stalin is an actual hero who singlehandedly saved Europe from fascism, and all repressed were rich "bourgeois land owners" (actually, no. but even if yes, that's a terrorism). Then he and other user started posting stupid tankie memes. Ofc they ignored my questions how LGBT+, religious groups and small nations were treated and deleted the message. I'm sick of that shit. Needed to vent somewhere.
I wonder if part of it comes from the awareness that the average westerner has a very cushy life, so we get solace in knowing our ancestors must have lived harder, and therefore 'earned' our position for us. Totally detatched from the reality that suffering in and of itself is not a moral good. Calvinism and its consequences, etc.
There’s a strong subtext to the “Irish slavery” argument that the “slavery” was good character-building for Irish-American culture.