Almost a good expansion pack.

      • Homora [she/her,fae/faer]
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        3 years ago

        stalin wasnt the reason for why the soviet union fell but hes purges played a part in creating an incapable and opressive state

            • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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              3 years ago

              Wow, citing wikipedia. The one thing more lib than citing a youtuber

                • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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                  3 years ago

                  I wouldn't even say that because you didn't even link to an actual source in the first place. Could you make it any more obvious that you just googled it because you're going off cultural osmosis, instead of having any sources?

                  • Homora [she/her,fae/faer]
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                    3 years ago

                    youre denying that the purges even happened why would i even give a shit about what you think

                        • frivolity [comrade/them]
                          ·
                          3 years ago

                          fucking middle school grasp of history, can't cite anything but the most accessible possible CIA edited resource, shift immediately to ad hominem, obvious fucking wrecker.

                            • frivolity [comrade/them]
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                              3 years ago

                              lmao nice deflection, continued lack of substance. see 'origin of the great purges', another poster so graciously put up a link to. look up what albert einstein had to say about them even.

                              but nah you'd rather trust the nazi-hiring capitalist west and the post-soviet oligarchs about the guy they all hated and constantly tried to undermine the government of.

                              Capitalists subverting a communist state? sounds unrealistic must have been fucking paranoia lmfao

                              • Homora [she/her,fae/faer]
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                                3 years ago

                                blaa blaa blaa we have a completely different wiev on "democracy"

                                why do you insist on defending stalin

                                • frivolity [comrade/them]
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                                  3 years ago

                                  lmao because he presided over the defeat of the fucking nazis, created one of the greatest improvements in living standards ever to have been seen in europe, if not the world, and he makes shitlibs like you piss themselves in terror despite the decades of lies spread by america and their literal nazi propagandists. i bet you believe that the holodomor was a genocide. go ahead cite gulag archipelago next.

                                    • frivolity [comrade/them]
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                                      3 years ago

                                      he's not a fucking saint or anything but by far better than any american president or european minister, and did it during the worst war the world has ever seen. i hope you end up in an 'authoritarian' state that provides you healthcare, housing, and education to undo the decades of american sponsored nazi propaganda.

                                      • Homora [she/her,fae/faer]
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                                        3 years ago

                                        he was worse than modern presidents he had more power and could have actually steered the soviet union away from dacay but alas

                                • frivolity [comrade/them]
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                                  3 years ago

                                  lmao no one mentioned democracy, but since you started i will point out stalin was elected by a representative body just like any american president was

                                • space_comrade [he/him]
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                                  3 years ago

                                  why do you insist on defending stalin

                                  Why do you insist on not budging on your childish view of recent history and giving the opposing side a fair shake? Like why is it so hard to entertain the idea that maybe you weren't given a full picture of Stalin when you (I would assume) admit you weren't given the full picture about socialism and communism in general? How are you so certain of your perception of Stalin when you have had (again, presumably) your perception of leftism drastically changed?

                        • space_comrade [he/him]
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                          3 years ago

                          Bro you unironically cited wikipedia, just shut the fuck up or go to /r/vaush or whatever

                        • Shrek
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                          3 years ago

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                          • Homora [she/her,fae/faer]
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                            3 years ago

                            youre defending dictators online and im against that im doing more political activism in week than you will in your entire life

                        • frivolity [comrade/them]
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                          3 years ago

                          lmfao go back to :reddit-logo: you complete moron, your wrecking is too transparent

                    • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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                      3 years ago

                      This argument is not about whether or not the purges happened. That's not what anyone was disputing

                            • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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                              3 years ago

                              Not even dignifying that. You made specific claims, and when people challenged you on them you jumped back to more general claims you could defend more easily.

                              This is super transparent, come on now.

                                    • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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                                      3 years ago

                                      Roughly 1000% chance you're one of the people that thinks "kulak" is an ethnicity

                                    • vccx [they/them]
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                                      3 years ago

                                      :duck-dance:

                                      My ethnicity is Ukrainian Landlord and my culture is price gouging The Poors to death during our regular ancestral famines and creating pogroms for The Jews.

                                      :fash-mad:

                                      Mein Führer, my country yearns for freedom!

                    • Shitbird [any]
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                      3 years ago

                      thi poorges nevr hapn et wz jst a beeg ARG