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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Basically, he is not better than any other filthy politician.

Under Tsar Nicholas II Jews and other ethnic minorities were consistently persecuted, subjected to pogroms and laws limiting their professions. The Russian Empire regularly had brutal famines that would kill millions of people. The Orthodox Church was deeply entrenched with the state and religion was used to control people and make them accept living under a kind of feudal rule.

When the Bolshevik revolution happened all of these problems were done away with, and not 50 years passed before they were taking to send the children of farmers to orbit. They killed 8 out of every 10 Nazis who died in WW2, and supported a nascent anti-colonialist movement across the world as the British and French lost their colonies (though sometimes their help was less than perfect).

Do all filthy politicians do things like this? Because if all politicians were doing things like that I think the world would probably be a much better place.