Basically I was tagged as mentioned in a comment, one of several in the thread, and got an inbox notification of it. It was about 20 min after the comment itself was posted, in a community I don’t interact with, with a user I don’t think I’ve ever interacted with before.
Not sure if it’s a piefed problem, a cross-talk problem, or just a random bug, but as per screenshot, it wasn’t intended behavior, and I wasn’t meant to be tagged.
I’ll edit this to include a link to the actual thread if desired. Or if any other info is needed that’s cool too.
Neither would anybody in their right mind.
But, my grandma saw both cities through the goggles of her religion. Those were tanks of peace.
In 2015 I spent some days in East Türkestan – in Qulja, in Ürümqi, in Khorgos. I’ve been wondering how the tankies would have interpreted if they visited there and saw what I saw. I noticed people avoiding certain themes, I saw them getting scared if I tried speaking Uyghur near Han children, I saw heavily armed policemen on top of APCs. I saw a dystopy.
But a person for whom CCP counts as high clergy… They would see all that differently.
I believe that a pious communist would be a horrible bother for a person who has fled the USSR. They’d get no more out of it than my grandmother got out of visiting both sides or Berlin back then. You’d get a very pissed off survivor of USSR and a pious person who is feeling good and righteous for proving once again that all people opposing his thoughts are nazis. Except for those who actually are, because they have such similar thought patterns to those Pure in Faith that they would feel like friends to such a pious person. Unless, of course, they’d outright show a swastika tattoo to them.