This shit is deranged on so many levels, I love it

An educated Marxist-Leninist such as Putin accepted that there had been more than 100 million victims of communism, an acceptable price to pay to remodel the world. He accepted the purges that Lenin and Stalin used to cement their rule, the forced famines that eliminated enemies of the state, the forced labor camps in Siberia, the tight control of all media. Putin studied the techniques of agitation and propaganda, applying them in his KGB assignment in Dresden in East Germany during the Cold War.

https://archive.is/4nZkS

https://twitter.com/NRO/status/1533851215624298497

  • spectre [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Reddit jerks itself off every few years remembering that time that WWIII was prevented by a Soviet radar officer who wasn’t willing to give the call to launch the nukes based on his data alone.

    Ah shit yeah it's been a while since I've thought something through in full liberal-mode, but this situation goes from "whoa that's pretty wild, close call there" to that x5 in lib mode like "yeah his superiors wanted any excuse to engage in nuclear war, and he was probably shot after this incident or something. this one guy alone literally saved the world all on his own"