• iByteABit [comrade/them]
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    6 hours ago

    Lmao these are the people shedding crocodile tears over the gulags and here they are casually fantasizing about a gulag the Soviet Union could never come up with

    • TheDrink [he/him]
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      6 hours ago

      In the Soviet Union the Great Purge lasted less than a year, but we've been doing the equivalent for like forty.

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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        3 hours ago

        And most of it was actually justified. There were a lot of Tsarist sympathizers, nobility, and reactionaries that had to go. Purges in the US are just like...environmentalists saying "Maybe we shouldn't have lead in the water."

        • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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          2 hours ago

          Soviet Union: suppresses the Orthodox clergy for being complicit in a social arrangement under the tsar that amounted to low grade terrorism for the poor

          United States: throws nuns in prison for doing roadblocks to protest nuclear arms