Trotsky was a communist revolutionary and intellectual. He once wrote "In politics, obtaining power and maintaining power justifies anything" in his book "Leur morale et la nôtre"*

In this book, Trotsky justifies the use of lies, infiltration of other political parties, smearing, even hostage taking. He says absolute ruthlesness is necessary to overthrow a hostile system and wield power. He concludes "We are acting for the greater good. We can't be restrained by normal morality".

Joseph Stalin took Trotsky's advice literally. So he murdered Trotsky because he saw him as rival. Stalin also started killing people because he believed they could be sympathetic to capitalism or opponents to his power.

Even the secret police themselves were not safe

Everybody was absolutely terrified during this period. At least 500 000 people were murdered. Over 1 million people were deported to Gulags, secret prisons in Siberia, where they worked 12 hours a day.

Joseph Stalin decided to crush Ukraine for resisting communism and supporting independance. In 1933, he seized all Ukraine's food production [with his giant spoon] including all the bread, the wheat, the cows, the chicken. In the next months, over 5 million Ukrainians were starved to death. The situation was so bad that thousands of people turned to cannibalism. When the Nazis invaded Ukraine, some Ukrainians thought they were saviors

Hitler was a monster, but we really don't talk enough about how bad Stalin was.

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[–] Moidialectica@hexbear.net 11 points 7 hours ago

I thought it was a modified title in the Hexbear to kick the original post but no it unironically claims USSR killed people randomly, how do people actually live like this? Ah, well, they do, if their beliefs about USSR are already bent so to the right to begin with

Similar with how Moscow shut the internet off except some government apps, there is really no material case for this to occur outside of their claims of preventing drone attacks; there had been attacks conducted far far away into Siberia by Ukraine too, so this stands ground as a defence for internet blackouts, yet the videos I saw mock the concept, and tout it simply as government censorship because they hate citizens or something, despite Russia losing millions a day by doing this, they don't want to do it either FFS, use materialism for once holy shit I'm gonna go crazy