I can't remember where, but I have heard the Stalin-Hitler anti-liberal alliance myth before. I think I saw it in a series of books that broke down WWII in various volumes, from the 90s. It was in my middle school library years ago. Part of the narrative was that Stalin had plenty of warning about Hitler's invasion, but refused to properly mobilize defenses because he was convinced the Allies would side with the Nazis against the USSR. They also mentioned how the Soviets trained Nazi soldiers in the 30s and had streets named after Hitler once the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed.
Oklahoma has some kind of Cold War era law that outlaws "parties that want to overthrow the government", and is under the stranglehold of the Republican Party. If there was a large enough ML presence here to push for it on the ballot, we'd probably be used by the MAGA zealots to justify even more unconstitutional actions than what we already have going on. It's nuts here.
Do you have the clip by chance? Or better still, is there a cache of all the videos, articles and posts of Ukraine being a "totally normal democracy"? I remember there was a giant shareable document breaking down and debunking the Uyghur genocide myth a few years ago.
I agree. When the Russian intervention began and Western media did a huge crackdown on the truth, the only people I saw allowed to tell the Russian side on mainstream were MAGA crackpots who looked crazy doing it. Can't say there's no censorship, because the narrative is allowed on mainstream media, but presented from the side progressives hate and distrust the most. It's an insidious kind of manipulation.
Yeah... there's always just enough self-awareness in their words that I have to wonder if they're poor liars, or suffering some kind of ingrained mental block that keeps them from finishing the line of logic.
Did people even ask the easy questions (without being banned and censored)? Y'know... questions that would have been answered by looking at the photos of the Ukrainian soldiers and the symbols they wore? Or the posts and comments they frequently made? I'm actually curious what the "hard" questions could be, when a lot of the answers were pretty apparent.
I've been noticing the articles are saying he was a chaotic mess, a hindrance to the war in Ukraine, and acted like he was the personal representative of all American volunteers there. Not sure if any of that is true or if they're just trying to distance themselves from him, but I could see it being true.
Doesn't change the fact he's a pro-Ukrainian who tried to assassinate Trump, and failed miserably. Kind of makes me wonder if the first assassin was also pro-Ukraine.
What's funny is that I remember the original conspiracy they're referring to. It was told to me as a funny story, about how a doctor found the best way to convince anti-vaxxers to get vaccinated was by telling an even more ridiculous conspiracy theory.
And then this dipshit immediately admits they'd believe the conspiracy theory, then proceeds to edit it with a dozen other conspiracy theories to justify sinophobia. The lack of self-awareness is astounding.
My understanding is they edited the guy out because he was responsible for excesses driven by personal prejudices, and then he was arrested and executed. That's correct, isn't it? Please excuse my ignorance.
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I can't remember where, but I have heard the Stalin-Hitler anti-liberal alliance myth before. I think I saw it in a series of books that broke down WWII in various volumes, from the 90s. It was in my middle school library years ago. Part of the narrative was that Stalin had plenty of warning about Hitler's invasion, but refused to properly mobilize defenses because he was convinced the Allies would side with the Nazis against the USSR. They also mentioned how the Soviets trained Nazi soldiers in the 30s and had streets named after Hitler once the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed.
No idea how accurate any of that was.