• ComradeBongwater [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This is actually the power move because it:

    1. Forces them to reconcile what they "know" about Stalin with what actually happened.
    2. Allows you to show that the body count for famine should be applied to capitalists and not Stalin
    3. Shifts the conversation out of intangible "he was bad and mean" to "what would you have done here"

    Remind them: Those "peasants" that "Stalin killed" were setting their own crops on fire to deny their countrymen food.

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I feel like there's probably a way to start from those infamous pics of farmers dumping tanks of milk down the drain, and get to "destroying the country's most important crop during a shortage to own the libs"