• Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    "Communism and collectivization were in the closet making babies, and I saw one of the babies, and then the baby looked at me."

    • this dude's great-Grandpa in law
    • jormaig@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      Oh look I talk about the terror regime during communism but users are too busy torturing their relatives to even care about the internal issues of communism.

      • StalinForTime [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Ah yes, communists, famous for not debating in intricate technical detail amongst themselves the internal issues of attempts at actually existing socialism.

        Who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?

      • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        My girlfriend in the early 90's was a Croat refugee after the USSR got couped. Her family fled so that the newly emboldened fascists in Yugoslavia didn't murder them.

        We met working at customer service job for an overseas company. She would always tell me that she works twice as hard here as she did back home; and we don't even get paid enough to live here.

        That's a real person with real first-hand experience of the before-and-after of the Soviet Union dissolved. I can text her right now. Your pee-paw's pee-paw in law who lost his plantation to the people can come at me if he wants to talk. But I doubt they're even alive still; assuming they existed in the first place.