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      A thought-terminating cliche that has absolutely nothing to do with what I posted. “Don’t listen to this person’s completely reasonable point, they’re [redscareword]”

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            Victims were mostly eastern Europeans and central and east asiains, who cares. A small price for a western tankie it seems.

            Half my family grew up in the soviet union. Czech.

            You two are the ones that completely derailed this conversation into talk about lenin and other crap. I commented about cops ffs.

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                I just don’t get how adult men still fall for daddy worship on either side. 21sr century problems requires modern solutions, not repeating same clown history and sinping for dead clowns daddies.

                I am not a man. Stop misgendering me. This is the second fucking time in this thread.

                You brought politics into this discussion.

                I just said we’re the ones that we’ve been saying this forever, and linked to some further reading.

                You got called for having unsavory post history praising mass murders.

                I’ve never praised “mass murderers”. Get a grip.

                If you are eastern European, that’s a very weird position to take

                No it isn’t. You have a warped view of what eastern europe believes because you see us as caricatures to use as a political weapon. I have gone over this in the past, there is a very large amount of positivity towards the soviet union here:

                7 out of 11 countries believe the end of the USSR harmed their countries rather than benefited them

                Reflecting back on the breakup of the Soviet Union that happened 22 years ago next week, residents in seven out of 11 countries that were part of the union are more likely to believe its collapse harmed their countries than benefited them. Only Azerbaijanis, Kazakhstanis, and Turkmens are more likely to see benefit than harm from the breakup. Georgians are divided.

                Hungary: 72% of Hungarians say they are worse off today economically than under communism

                A remarkable 72% of Hungarians say that most people in their country are actually worse off today economically than they were under communism. Only 8% say most people in Hungary are better off, and 16% say things are about the same. In no other Central or Eastern European country surveyed did so many believe that economic life is worse now than during the communist era. This is the result of almost universal displeasure with the economy. Fully 94% describe the country’s economy as bad, the highest level of economic discontent in the hard hit region of Central and Eastern Europe. Just 46% of Hungarians approve of their country’s switch from a state-controlled economy to a market economy; 42% disapprove of the move away from communism. The public is even more negative toward Hungary’s integration into Europe; 71% say their country has been weakened by the process.

                Romania: 63% of the survey participants said their life was better during communism

                The most incredible result was registered in a July 2010 IRES (Romanian Institute for Evaluation and Strategy) poll, according to which 41% of the respondents would have voted for Ceausescu, had he run for the position of president. And 63% of the survey participants said their life was better during communism, while only 23% attested that their life was worse then. Some 68% declared that communism was a good idea, just one that had been poorly applied.

                Germany: more than half of former eastern Germans defend the GDR

                Glorification of the German Democratic Republic is on the rise two decades after the Berlin Wall fell. Young people and the better off are among those rebuffing criticism of East Germany as an “illegitimate state.” In a new poll, more than half of former eastern Germans defend the GDR.

                28 percent of Czechs say they were better off under the Communist regime

                Roughly 28 percent of Czechs say they were better off under the Communist regime, according to a poll conducted by the polling institute SC&C and released Sunday.

                81% of Serbians believe they lived best in Yugoslavia

                A poll shows that as many as 81 per cent of Serbians believe they lived best in the former Yugoslavia -”during the time of socialism”.

                Majority of Russians

                The majority of Russians polled in a 2016 study said they would prefer living under the old Soviet Union and would like to see the socialist system and the Soviet state restored.


                Americans always say this stuff about europe because their brains are riddled with red scare brainworms and are completely devoid of any knowledge or understanding of what the left in Europe actually thinks because Americans do not have any experience with a left, they don’t have one.

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                    Proper polling by some of the most respected institutes in the world isn’t “trust me bro”.

                    You can’t dismiss actual evidence when it’s presented to you just because it doesn’t confirm what you want it to. I understand that you have this impression because it’s what you’ve seen far right american losers repeat in reddit comment sections thousands of times over and over and over again, but these comments that you’ve used to build your worldview are not actually representative of reality. They are anecdotes by either people like yourself who have been led to believe it by seeing it repeated over and over, or by people who know it’s false but continue to repeat it because they are ideologically committed to spreading it as propaganda.

                    You are not immune to propaganda.

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                    From the multiple other times I’ve said so in this thread, and from the other times I’ve told this guy who regularly does this. It’s not the first.

                    Either way you shouldn’t be defaulting to male.

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                  It takes more courage to stand up for something you believe than to give in to populism. I really do appreciate the points you brought up. I may still disagree with several things about communism, but I have to acknowledge that even in this capitalist society we have many issues that are only resolved by a “heavy handed” policy due to a lot of the greed going on in the west.

                  Despite this back and forth going on, you have very succinctly got some good points across and I very much hope you stick around for the discussions here. I might not agree with all your philosophy, but conversation with someone like you is a real good thing as opposed to sitting in echo chambers with narrow perspective.

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                    You’ll probably enjoy when Hexbear.net federates in 5 days time. Some of these other people won’t lmao.

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          Ableism really gets your point across and makes you look good.

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              I don’t worship them. I simply don’t agree with your take that they’re bad. Life was significantly worse under the Tsars and this is empirically provable with very simple data. For example a look at prison mortality rates before and after the revolution:

              What you are functionally doing when you attack Lenin is say that you think the revolution shouldn’t have happened. You’re defending monsters yourself - the tsars.

              The point isn’t to defend the mistakes of past socialist endeavours of which there were certainly many, but to uphold the obvious improvements that they most certainly made over what came before them.

              And you consistently ignore the fact that good people throughout history agree with me that Lenin was a revolutionary that fought for good, not a monster.

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                  Wow, I could excuse the Lenin worship for a second (his list of atrocities isn’t widely known and he did depose a despotic regime), but Putin’s Russia???

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                  Your username betrays your very first sentence (you claim not to worship Lenin). You can’t even start by making a truthful, coherent, or logical point. Look at how many images you’ve posted praising Lenin. You’re seriously claiming that you’re not worshiping him? You’re delusional.

                  A revolution is not a mass murder. You just keep repeating the “killed 8 million people” line over and over again, devoid of context or historical analysis in order to repeatedly put the deaths that occurred during that revolution all entirely on one person. While simultaneously ignoring the fact that the revolution created a vast improvement in people’s lives.

                  You also defend modern day Russia

                  I do not. You are building a strawman and repeatedly make stuff up. You do not participate in good faith and if you think harrassing me over and over again will get me to stop participating you are going to be disappointed. It’s been tried many times before.

              • Anarcho-Bolshevik
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                The author of that graph miscalculated and accidentally inflated the Tsarist era statistics. They were closer to this. (If I remember correctly, the original author might have misunderstood Wheatcroft when he wrote ‘These rates were extremely high in the 1880s, when they were more than five times the normal prison mortality rate[.]’)

                The Tsars were still pretty awful, though, and were one of the reasons that made the October Revolution inevitable.

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                    I learnt this from a commenter on Reddit’s Chapotraphouse when another user shared that same graph; the comment explained how the author miscalculated. Unfortunately, the comment vanished when Reddit deleted Chapotraphouse years ago, so now I don’t have the evidence.

                    However, one of the sources in that graph, The Crisis of the Late Tsarist Penal System, does not really support the miscalculation:

                    The number of tsarist executions is clearly minute in comparison with the later Soviet figures, and the scale of katorga and exile is also extremely low. While this is undeniable, it is important to stress the remarkable changes and deterioration in the tsarist prison systems that came about in the last decade of tsarist rule.

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        Your comment didn’t bring anything meaningful to this discussion either. All you did was post a website link.

        Maybe your post could actually include some meaningful discussion and comments that can stand on their own. Maybe next time?