Been seeing a lot of people coming in here handwringing about 'red fash' and 'muh authoritarianism.'
Figuring that this will be a common occurrence for a while, so wanted to make a collective thread here. The purpose of this is to just have one spot as so we don't fill up the comm with a ton of posts about it.
Post away, comrades!
Anyone who was alive to remember the Stalin years is dead! You won't be talking to someone who was displaced, you'll be talking to their fucking grandson who has heard the history of their ancestors through the lens of an ardently anti communist society.
"Go talk to someone from one of those countries" is legitimately the most baby brained argument. It's so easily disprovable that I use it as a barometer for whether someone is actually arguing in good faith.
Edit: Also, yeah, no shit someone who was targeted by a policy that literally every communist agrees was bad would hate Stalin. I have no qualms with that. But what does that have to do with literally anything? Okay, yes, it was bad. Luckily I am far enough removed from the situation to analyze that with the other 40 years Stalin was head of the party and say the good far outweighs the bad.