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?
Did you also read about soviet genocides and gulags? Maybe you should read a bit more
The Soviets committed no genocides though? Making up genocides is a form of genocide denial because it minimizes real genocides.
And yes, there were prisons in the USSR, and for 5 years prior to/during WW2 they put more people in prison than they should have, mistakes were made. They corrected this quickly and moved on, imprisonment rates were very low after the 1950s and onwards.
This is either a flat out lie or grossly ignorant.
The Soviet Union was responsible for multiple geocides.
Don’t spread misinformation.
You can’t be serious? Lmao I don’t even know how to reply to this level of ignorance
Maybe start here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Genocides_in_history_(World_War_I_through_World_War_II)#Russia_and_the_Soviet_Union
“Gommunism bad!!” cites the NATOpedia article they just looked up and haven’t read
Maybe try a source not entirely comprised of cold-war brainworms? Oh wait, you can’t!
Extremely unserious that the article includes things like the Cossacks joining the tsarists in the civil war and getting their asses kicked, but makes no mention of the Brits in India.
Lmao I literally lived through this so maybe fuck off back to your Spanish tankie larping basement. What an absolute moron - sorry I even gave you a chance. Enjoy the blocklist.
I hope you get treated just like how Russia treats their disfavored peoples
I don’t hope you get treated how the west treats Palestinians
Tell me who you define as the west, because unlike you chances are I’ve already criticized it very vocally
Fuck you. You say “I hope the very worst happens to you”, get a reply being “well, I hope not that for you”, to which you reply “ha, I think I have a gotcha!”
You are fucking GROSS for this.
And of you refuse to adress the point. You’re mad I pointed out your hypocrisy
You think I don’t criticise Russia? I have loved ones suffering under the Russian right wing regime. That doesn’t imply the USSR carried out genocides.
Lol, lmao
You will just redefine willful harm against millions like starvation to not be genocide by your terms. And if you do believe Putin and his gang is right wing, why are you still shielding them?
Your criticism is worthless