• Flying Squid
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    203 days ago

    I guess East Germany was “saved” in a similar manner. And the USSR saved Poland from itself!

      • Flying Squid
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        133 days ago

        You know, I have yet to hear a Tankie defend the Stasi. I assume they would, but I haven’t heard it yet.

        Then again, “everyone who was sent to the gulags deserved it” was a new one to me as of maybe two weeks ago.

        • @PugJesusOPM
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          73 days ago

          Just wait until you start hearing defenses of Ceaușescu and the Securitate.

          • Flying Squid
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            73 days ago

            My best friend growing up had Romanian parents who had escaped Causescu. They didn’t tell us the bad stories.

            I do know his dad had his index finger on his right hand partially cut off. He used to tell my friend that a bear ate it. Years later, I realized that was the finger you would use to pull a trigger and he was not the type of guy who would have willingly signed up to be in the Romanian military in the 1960s.

            • NoneOfUrBusiness
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              13 days ago

              As someone who knows nothing about Eastern Bloc history, what was wrong with the Romanian military in the 1960s?

              • Flying Squid
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                62 days ago

                Better to read about Causescu than the military itself. He was a monster. After he was finally deposed, he was convicted of genocide against his own people in a Romanian court because he was responsible for over 60,000 deaths.

                The military was one the many tools in his arsenal.

                • NoneOfUrBusiness
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                  42 days ago

                  Holy fuck. Props to your best friend’s dad; not enough people have the principles to follow through on something like that.

      • @PugJesusOPM
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        let me tell you about this austrian painter and what he did in poland and germany before the ussr liberated them

        How did he get into Poland, again?

        For that matter, who told the German KPD not to cooperate with the SPD against reactionary forces?

  • @Valmond
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    122 days ago

    Classic: insults, go read a book/video, you weren’t in the trenches, it’s just propaganda …

    I wonder what they are getting out of it.

      • @Valmond
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        22 days ago

        Serotonin or dopamine? How does serotonin hit? I thought serotonin was a sleep regulating thing?

  • @zeppo
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    13 days ago

    You and your useless leaders who never got to power and never had to face the realities of class war.