Give me an atrocity committed by leftist forces, and I'll justify it for you.

    • gonxkilluaotp [he/him]
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      You are taking the Khmer Rouge in a vacuum instead of respecting the complexity of the situation. Khmer Rouge was the result of a combination of ethnic warfare between Laotians, Vietnamese, the USA bombing and fucking the shit out of the region right before the communist party took over, and Khmer that had been going on before the Europeans colonized and destabilized the region, and a newly formed and unconsolidated Communist party. I am not justifying what happened, but pretending it is a "Leftist Genocide" and not the culmination of a ton of fucked shit that had been destroying the region is revisionist.

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        pretending it is a “Leftist Genocide” and not the culmination of a ton of fucked shit that had been destroying the region is revisionist.

        The comment is 9 words my dude. It very clearly does not say this.

        Are you saying Mao and the PRC should have supported the Khmer Rogue to the extent they did?

        • gonxkilluaotp [he/him]
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          I didn't read your comment well and took your reference to the Khmer Rouge as if it was your response to "an atrocity committed by leftist forces." I am sorry.

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      it's actually good because "medicine" is a deep state ruse to make people docile slaves, viramins and weed are natural and wholesome.

    • AnarchoLeninist [he/him]
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      I've said stuff on Hiroshima and the Romanov kids, but I think this might be approaching my limit.

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    The 1969 Soviet plan to launch a pre-emptive fucking nuclear strike on China averted only by HENRY FUCKING KISSINGER?!!!! stating at the last minute that if the USSR went through with it the US would launch a retaliatory 130 ICBM nuclear strike against the USSR!!!!

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      A plan that wasn't carried out? We can't know the chances of it having been, and this was the 1960s, everyone had tons of nuclear contingencies.

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        Mao, at least, thought they were credible threats. The Sino-Soviet split got really fucking heated around 1969

        https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=716009

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    That time willy wonka killed those kids

          • Civility [none/use name]
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            They totes were, but the Angolan civil war began while Mao was still the Chairman of the CPC

              • Civility [none/use name]
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                Is a senile old man with a personal grudge being allowed to make that sort of a decision a justification though?

                It's definitely an explanation, but I'd hesitate to say being senile and having a grudge or wanting to obey a senile old man with a grudge justifies sending armaments, money, diplomatic support and intel to a dictatorial colonial regime to aid their efforts in suppressing a decolonial Marxist revolt, especially when it means siding against the rest of international communism.

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                  I'm gonna say once again, Leftist. The revisionists exploiting Mao's confusion and Mao wanting to fuck over Brezhnev and the rest aren't suitable as classification for leftists.

                  I could stretch it and say they wanted as many armed groups in the area as possible to make the US continue sinking resources into it, but that usually doesn't entail helping the US's puppets

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    My last image based bloodlustposting was . . . Recieved poorly. So, I'll just be doing a more detached, text based version this time

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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      This one I've been looking around for an answer for almost a year: the Red Army being given the order to hold position and expressly not move in to liberate Warsaw during the Warsaw uprising.

      • AnarchoLeninist [he/him]
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        They had to reconsolidate their forces, who had been advancing nonstop. If that meant fucking over their political rivals, so be it.

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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          Honestly it seems like one of the most genuine dick moves seen from the Soviets that is seen from ww2.

          Like there's plenty to argue over in terms of "Soviet atrocities" such as the Katyn massacres sites having both German bullets shells and polish bodies being buried in ways that resemble how nazi Einsatzgruppen sardine can packed dead bodies in mass graves, or how Hungarian fascists were rounding up Jews and communists for extra judicial executions during the western supported Hungarian uprising.