• blakeus12 [he/him]
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    11 days ago

    i'll step up to the plate, i guess.

    stalin did a lot of bad shit, and made many, many, mistakes.

    i won't get banned for this because hexbear isn't the evil shithole that everyone over on lemmy.world makes it out to be. we can just recognize the successes and failures of past historical leaders.

    happy?

      • Bureaucrat
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        11 days ago

        Nukes are scary and at that point the soviets had been fighting since 1918 (at the earliest, before that they were imperial citizens in a war and before that they were doing civil war stuff I'm sure)

        • 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her]
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          11 days ago

          This is why it's every comrade's civic duty that, in the event that you are presented with a functioning time machine, you go back and let Stalin know that the US only had materials to build two nukes, and they'd just used both of them.

          • Bureaucrat
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            11 days ago

            Probably also give him some schematics for ICBMs and other stuff. Give him modern potatos, I'm sure they yield more. Also a refutal of Lysenkos bs

              • Bureaucrat
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                11 days ago

                Maybe give him a book of the biggest sports victories so he can win big in capitalist casinos while we're at it

                • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  11 days ago

                  "Those computing machines are gonna get a LOT smaller in a few decades and basically take over Capitalist society" 👀

                  • Bureaucrat
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                    edit-2
                    10 days ago

                    "Here's a smartphone, it's based on a soviet invention that capitalists made worse. You can bash it open for the precious metals inside."