I have a friend who is by all accounts very socialist but was absolutely horrified when I claimed that the USSR was not “bad” and that many of the deaths it is blamed for have a much more complicated reason. They also called me a tankie, much to my despair as it really displayed to me how many brainworms they have. They also were fairly close to calling me a genocide denier 💀
This person is a freshman in college and I’d like to try and help them unlearn these ideas. They are queer and Canadian,and they also thought Vaush was great if that’s helpful at all. Does anyone have any accessible resources to help them unlearn what they’ve been taught about the USSR?
If you're in college, you could justify being an annoying nerd and lecturing him about the circumstances behind the Soviet invasion of Hungary, which is where the term "tankie" originally came from. Probably pointless, but I don't know, I guess it depends on how invested you are and how miserable it becomes to talk to them.
Lmao I am not in college but I will be a highschool teacher so I’m trying to think of this person as a student and not an annoying reactionary friend lmao