Many people on lemmy.ml deeply respect and admire authoritarian governments and organizations.
Iran, China, North Korea, Soviet Union…
The West has many flaws. But our flaws are nothing compared to these guys.
Iran hangs homosexuals. Iran shot 30,000 people in less than than 2 weeks. The Soviet Union had to build a fucking Iron wall to prevent people from escaping. The Soviets lied about the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. China censors the internet. China wants to eliminate Islam. North Korea is a totalitarian hellscape. Watching anime is a crime.
Why is lemmy.ml so fascinated with authoritarians?
holy fuck lmao
Well yeah, but then it rusted after 40 years and people could get back through.
? I mean it’s a true statement…
you really think the Soviet Union made a literal wall out of iron all along its border to keep people inside? you think they built a really big metal wall all along their ~60,000km land borders? 3 times as long as the Great Wall of China?
are you perhaps confusing this with the berlin wall? or do you think the phrase “the Iron Curtain” was meant very very literally?
For what it’s worth, when I read the OP my brain went to the Berlin wall, not the iron curtain. They said “iron wall,” not “Berlin wall” or “iron curtain” so I think there will be a mix of folks interpreting it each way.
Yeah, the vocab term was wrong but I didn’t see the whole statement as being that wrong.
they played too much RA2.
Obviously the guy isn’t a native speaker