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[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Didn't know the Cambodians, Polish, Kalmyks, Kazakhs, Tatars, Ukrainians, Anarchists, Left SRs, Trotskyists and Peasants were all Nazis. Must be fun to live in that world.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (25 children)

The Finns who died defending their homeland from naked, opportunistic Soviet imperialism also wish to say hi.

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Two things are true at once:

  • They did crimes
  • They fought even bigger criminals

And two things are true at once:

  • Descendants of their innocent victims consider them monsters, and they are correct and valid.
  • Descendants of the even bigger criminals that got "neutralized" hide among the other category, and they are dishonest.
[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only correct take in capitalism-communism discourse

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, this is the for the Communism-fascism discourse.

When it comes to Communism-capitalism, my take is that while we are able, correct and valid to pinpoint the crimes of (big-C) Communists, we are steeped in (small-c) capitalist ideology and are completely desensitized to the ongoing systemic crimes of our own system, which are in my opinion graver than anything the (big-C) Communists ever did.

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[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Yeah, or they were LGBTQ+.

[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or a slightly different version of communist.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 25 points 1 month ago

Or any other flavor of leftist.

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[–] merdaverse@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My mom was just telling me a while ago about how one of her uncles was tortured by the communists after they came to power. Small note: he was a member of the legionnaires, so I can relate to this meme.

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[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 month ago

First they came for the grandfathers and I did not speak out, for my grandfather was a Nazi.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (14 children)
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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (11 children)

The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Did Trotsky have grandchildren? Or did the Communists exterminate his entire family line?

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yes, plenty. of his great granddaughters is an official at the NIH https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Volkow

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[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I mean you can say that. At the same time I grew up in a communist country where your neighbours were disappeared for whatever reason that authorities saw fit. I saw the oligarchs keep their power under a different name and regular folk stay poor, and get even poorer than before. You American kids love the idea of communism but it don’t work in practice, it requires humans to be selfless, it requires leaders who will reach the top and give up power and money, and spread it to the people below. I don’t think that’s possible with humans, too selfish. Socialism under direct rules and regulations, great. But strong man communism isn’t different than fascism or capitalism to the people at the bottom

[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

I can’t believe you called me American.

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[–] hakase@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] Tautvydaxx@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Thats how its starts, first you tell them there are nazis and you want to liberate them from the nazis. Than you invade theyr countrie. Read about siberian gulags and how many “nazi grandperants” were sent there before boot licking these commies.

[–] JLock17@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago
[–] IceFoxX@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

My killed by Headshot.
I went through her papers with my grandma and there was also a letter from his death notification.

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