All they did was own a few slaves, and they treated them like family, so really, did they even count as slaves?

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    "The Soviets were worse than the Nazis. I know because the Nazis were very respectful to my great grandfather, Sturmfuhrer Adolf Reich, but the Soviets threw him into a gulag for 5 years."

    • a_little_red_rat [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 month ago

      I literally had a coworker from Poland who went "soviets were so evil, if Hitler won the war, polish ppl would be better off". He would not listen to me saying that if hitler won then polish people would simply not be, at all.

      Although it probably didn't help that I opened with "look, you don't need to like Stalin to understand..."

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        it probably didn't help that I opened with "look, you don't need to like Stalin to understand..."

        Next time try "Stalin's only flaw was that he was too kind and gentle, causing him to stop at Berlin."

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 month ago

      The Soviets put up monuments of Lenin everywhere, but we tore those down after we were liberated. We replaced them with statues of Voldemort and our greatest national hero, Vyatcheslav the Jewslayer.

  • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    Communists killed my grandpa in 1946, no the timing is not suspicious why do you ask

  • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    The communists killed my parents before I was born and now I'm starting to fade from existe

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      Saw one recently who said "my family had to flee to Taiwan and arrived with nothing but the gold ingots sewn into their clothes!"

      She then proceeded to block everyone asking her how her family got their hands on gold ingots in the first place.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 month ago

      rage-cry: We used to live in a mansion before the communists took everything!

      fidel-si: waow-based

  • a_little_red_rat [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 month ago

    I hate communism because it didn't cure my family of being reactionary shitheads despite lifting them out of famine-ridden dirt farmer life.

  • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]
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    1 month ago

    I remember this cat in a thread told me something like 'well my family actually came from a communist country and they hate the rich'. Same energy?

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      It's crazy how these types will refuse to look into what the rich were doing to make communism so tempting. Like sure, I'm sure Ivan the Terrible was reasonable on his subjects.

      • Wolfman86 [none/use name]
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        1 month ago

        Its a little known fact that Ivan the Terribles full name was "Ivan the Terrible at Counting". Thats how they became communists. Trust me bro, common sense init.

        Edit; fact not cact

    • Quimps [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      My great grandad was a nazi collaborator, so it could always be worse. Luckily not in any huge capacity. He just got paid as a day laborer to help them build stuff, but it's still pretty bad.

  • invo_rt [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    If Stalin killed your great grandparents, they deserved it.

  • thetaT [none/use name]
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    1 month ago

    i know a comrade from a very bourgeois background, she's straight up said multiple times that she would aid in the execution of her own family during revolution. based?

  • RedWizard [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    I have someone like this is my orbit and it takes every ounce of my strength to not ask them if their grandfather was a Nazi.

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    1 month ago

    Communists took my family farm and my family's "slaves", who were most likely not treated well. >.>

    I do not talk to my relatives in Florida

  • peeonyou [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    yeah well capitalism killed my greatest grandparents