• Vncredleader
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    2 years ago

    The European Left was unsalvageable once Eurocommunism gained traction

      • Vncredleader
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        2 years ago

        Amen comrade edit: oh and I recently learned that Andropov was prepping for a formal rehabilitation and even renaming Volograd back to Stalingrad. Who knows if it would've passed though

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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          2 years ago

          Andropov was prepping for a formal rehabilitation and even renaming Volograd back to Stalingrad.

          :kitty-cri:

          • Vncredleader
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            2 years ago

            Oh fuck it was Chernenko not Andropov, but yeah he wrote to Svetlana about

            the upcoming restoration of justice in relation to the memory and heritage of I.V. Stalin

            If only we could've stopped him from smoking at age 9

    • space_comrade [he/him]
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      edit-2
      2 years ago

      Honestly I think people like Yanis are the best EU left is gonna get for the foreseeable future. He has the occasional weird radlib take but he isn't completely terrible with his foreign policy takes like the average "left" party/movement.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      Its just survivorship bias. You either died a commie or lived long enough to become a villain.

      • Vncredleader
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        2 years ago

        idk it seems like the ones who survived are implicated in the deaths of the ones who "died a commie" . Castro was right, socialism wasn't murdered, it was s*icide