| 8 hours ago | mod | Removed Comment I am living in post Soviet times, but if you mean in a totalitarian regime in Russia pre USSR, during USSR, or post USSR they all sucked, be it Trotsky's terrible decisions which, had he been appointed as the head of state after Lenin's death would most likely have led the Soviet Union to war against western europe, including Nazi germany, years ahead of time and united them all against the Soviet union, to Stalin destroying crop yields due to bureaucratic inefficiencies to be charitable or a genocide similar to what happened in Ireland or India in the 1800's due to profit extraction and to quell popular uprisings. And those are just pre WW2 events, that doesn't condone any of Tzar Nicholas 2nd's terrible decision making but the Soviet union was doing at the end of the unions existence what the US government is doing now, allowing for seniority to rule leaving a less vibrant and more entrenched political elite who doesn't need to deliver anything to the people to keep their power.
If you want communism to work you can but only on small scales like Kibbutzs or Co-ops where the workers actually own and control the means of production in a meaningful manner, but the Soviet Union, or any other communist government by name has people who don't know the intricacies of how a certain field works dictating not only regulations but quotas which are only truly fulfilled on paper. Also I find it rich that people who support anti colonialism and think America or Israel have done some bad ethnic cleansing, to put it mildly in America's case, ignore the continual Russification of all places Russia can, be it in Romania, Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Hungary, or even within its borders in areas which had a large non Russian population more similar in culture to Mongolians; they did it during the time of Ivan the Terrible, Katherine the Great, when they took Saint Petersburg from the Sweeds to have a Baltic port, under all the Tzars, but not just them under Lenin and Stalin Russian became the de facto language of all nations part of the Warsaw pact and they suppressed other languages, that's why Crimea doesn't have the Tartars anymore for example. I would not like to live in a Russian occupied nation until Russia has true democracy and reduces its corruption issues, these issues having been in place since they were part of the Kievan Rus, and didn't go away under the Soviet Union. by  Pman@lemmy.orgreason: lemmy.ml rule 1 |
| 13 hours ago | mod | Removed Comment What was the context of his arrest and charges? And as someone else pointed out Stalin also did that sort of thing at least once with a 14 year old girl, and he never saw any consequences for that action or those of his Anti-Semitic policies, the 5year plan, or the Homodomor. The communist parties that completely control a country are like any other one party state, be they Bathists, Communists, Fascists, or other they support policies that get fear and loyalty towards their great leader. by Pman@lemmy.org reason: Misinformation |
| 13 hours ago | mod | Removed Comment And Stalin... At least if you think impregnating a 14 year old (Lidia Pereprygina) makes you a pedophile. by Wrufieotnak@feddit.org reason: Misinformation |
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| 2 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Yeah, never did communism bring to power a impossible to remove group or person focused on increasing their power and blocking any chance of keeping them in check. Unheard off. by harc@szmer.info reason: Rule 1 |
| 2 days ago | mod | Banned Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works from the community reason: comparing a genocidal state funded by zionists pedophiles to the ussr because of an isolated event were the perpetrator paid his sentence expires: in 3 months |
| 2 days ago | mod | Removed Post USSR: We have Epstein at home reason: comparing a genocidal state funded by zionists pedophiles to the ussr because of an isolated event were the perpetrator paid his sentence |
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| 2 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Username checks out lol by bridgeburner@lemmy.world reason: Rule 1 |
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| 3 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Better than Democrat cities. There you will wait 8 hours to be seen by the doctor, before getting scheduled 3 months out to see the specialist, go to your car with smashed out windows, cops that won't do anything about it but still somehow managed to put a parking ticket on your car all while being surrounded by people that don't see you or care your exist. by krisevol@lemmus.org reason: Rule 1 |
| 3 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Yo do realize that you're an idiot right? by dasrael@lemmy.zip reason: Rule 1, 2 |
| 3 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Fascism comes out of conservative values. They are all based on fear. Conservative voters have enlarged amigdala.
Fear of a complex and difficult sometimes paradoxical world leads to fear and uncertainty. That uncertainty gets displaced on to other people being the problem. Black people, women, immigrants. Whatever. The fear leads to control of those groups but that doesn’t ease the fear and eventually leads to the dehumanisation and destruction of those groups.
I know you are sophisticated so you already know all this and you aren’t confused by the Nazis using the world socialism in their party name. National socialist (noun) isn’t the same as socialism (adjective) by  Catpain Typo@lemmy.worldreason: Rule 1 |
| 4 days ago | mod | Banned  Semperverus@lemmy.world from the community reason: Rule 1 expires: in 3 days |
| 4 days ago | mod | Removed Comment The real solution is a zero-party state. Just glass the whole thing from orbit and radiate the entire zone. Have fun with your holy land wars now, motherfuckers, and up yours Netanyahu. by Semperverus@lemmy.world reason: Rule 1 |
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| 5 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Just quoting the meme, bruh. Tell it to your tankie friend. by Mongostein@lemmy.ca reason: Rule 1 |
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| 8 days ago | mod | Removed Post Law degrees reason: Where meme? |
| 9 days ago | mod | Removed Post Wolf shoplifts dog bed 🤩 reason: Not a meme |
| 9 days ago | mod | Banned yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip from the community reason: Rule 1, 2, 4 expires: 2 days ago |
| 9 days ago | mod | Banned ConstructiveVandalism@piefed.zip from the community reason: Rule 1 expires: 4 days ago |
| 9 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Russia isn’t in any position to ask for parts of sovereign countries! Also it’s a lie. They said the same about Crimes back then.
You will find in EVERY country people that want to belong to another one. As long as they are the minority it’s not up to them. This is not how it works. They can move if they want, but the ground belongs to the majority. by ConstructiveVandalism@piefed.zip reason: Rule 1 |
| 9 days ago | mod | Removed Comment mls on their way to defend the peoples police performing the peoples evictions on behalf of the peoples landlord by vathecka@lemmy.radio reason: Rule 1 |
| 9 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Okay Putinbot. Interesting, that the Ukraine people don’t feel like they need liberation, but Russia thinks so. by ConstructiveVandalism@piefed.zip reason: Rule 2 |
| 10 days ago | mod | Banned  zloubida@sh.itjust.works from the community reason: Rule 2 expires: in 4 days |
| 10 days ago | mod | Removed Comment No thank you. They're not fun while you are. by zloubida@sh.itjust.works reason: Rule 2 |
| 10 days ago | mod | Removed Comment I envy the simplicity of your minds. by zloubida@sh.itjust.works reason: Rule 2 |
| 10 days ago | mod | Banned AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world from the community reason: Rule 2 expires: 5 days ago |
| 10 days ago | mod | Removed Comment How many times do I have to teach you this lesson, old man?
An attack against America is not an adequate defense of China. Do better. by AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world reason: Rule 2 |
| 10 days ago | mod | Removed Comment How many times do I have to condemn every government and then tell you to shut the fuck up and address the issues with this government, the one we are talking about, and not other ones? by AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world reason: Rule 2 |
| 10 days ago | mod | Removed Comment good one 😂😂 by  meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.comreason: Rule 2 |
| 10 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Ah, yes, police in China [are only there to serve and protect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kovrig). They [definitely aren't doing questionable things](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Spavor). [Everything you hear to the contrary is just CIA propaganda](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/09/hong-kong-protests-explained/). [Do not believe what you see and hear](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/08/china-still-no-accountability-for-crimes-against-humanity-in-xinjiang-three-years-after-major-un-report/), only believe what the CCP overlords tell you. [The CCP is a miraculous party that only has the interests of its people at heart](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2023/11/chinas-white-paper-movement-one-year-on-six-protesters-share-their-stories/), and everyone should bow down to it in thankfulness and never question it. by unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth reason: Rule 1 |
| 10 days ago | mod | Removed Post Iran turns out to be the MVP reason: slop. also, "them" formatted separately like this is an antisemitic trope |
| 10 days ago | mod | Removed Comment > Tian’anmen
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> Of the few hundred people that died in the riots and fighting, the square was dispersed peacefully.
pfff lmao fuck off with your revisionist bs, we all know what happened there. by  Ironfist@sh.itjust.worksreason: Rule 1, 4 |
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| 13 days ago | mod | Removed Post Let's go boys! reason: No right-wing memes please, even if posted “ironically” |
| 15 days ago | mod | Removed Post Pittbull lovers on Lemmy be like reason: Moldy flamebait meme |
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| 24 days ago | mod | Removed Post welcome where threats are made up and international law doesn't matter reason: Rule 1 |
| 28 days ago | mod | Removed Post It's all fallen into place reason: lousy meme |
| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Post An effective tool to deal with zionist posters reason: lemmy.ml rule 1 - "eliminates 99.9% of $demonym" is not funny or ok for any value of $demonym |
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| 11 months ago | mod | Locked Post Capitalism is the root of evil |
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