This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they'd like to @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.
Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.
Are you tankies?
Why are you trying to make them defend Khrushchev? It's hard to find someone who agrees with anything else the guy did, but sending in the tanks to put down an uprising co-opted by nazis is pretty unambiguously good, though history tells us he didn't do enough to purge the Hungarian right.
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I was not expecting a HexBear struggle session in the dev AMA lol.
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OK, two things he did right.
The fallout from the sinosoviet split and destalinization can't be overstated though.
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Claiming they sided with fascists is fucking absurd. Don't spread this revisionist shit all you're doing is reinforcing anticommunism.
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I read your comment as referring to the soviets not china. I still don't understand why you even brought them into it though. It reads like trying to cause as much drama as possible.
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God I hate this bug.
I think they're referring to Chinese support of the Khmer Rouge. Obviously they're not the ones who engineered the coup that put Pol Pot's faction in power (see America), but not siding with the USSR and Vietnam against them was a p big L.
I didn't read it as that because it's a really weird non sequitur. Like someone just dumping as many controversial things into the thread as possible.
Correct, this isn't a serious discussion, I don't genuinely disagree with everything Kruschev did other than sending the tanks into Hungary and supporting Cuba, nor attribute everything the USSR did during that time to Kruschev; I imagine H3doubehockeysticks has more nuanced takes on the USSR and China.
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Wasn't the way he implemented centralized light industry pretty bad? Like didn't it destroy a lot of already existing organizations?
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Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I never realised that the open communists who made a reddit alternative for other communists with two of the first three instances being explicitly communist might be dirty commies
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