Sorry, I don’t read Zionazi pamphlets like DW.

Russia certainly attempts to have a robust propaganda system, and their propaganda certainly works within Russia. However, all states have propaganda systems, and Russia’s isn’t particularly strong. Evidence for that is that you’re sourcing your information without any awareness from some George Washington. It’s literally the Soviet joke:

An American spy and a Soviet spy are sharing a drink
A: Your propaganda program is incredible! Truly sophisticated stuff. I tell you, we at the CIA are in awe.
S: Thanks friend but our propaganda has nothing on yours.
A: Comrade, I don’t mean to disrespect you, but there’s no propaganda in the US.

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.

What’s bad faithed about asking for actually existing alternatives to capitalism besides socialism?

Sorry, I think you mean 40 million Iranians, murdered and eaten raw by Ayatollah Khomeini himself.

Deeply unserious propagandized individual. The reeducation facilities (that’s what they were) in Xinjiang have been closed for 6 years, there was not and there is not any genocide. As for North Korea, they did endure food deficit, you can thank the international sanctions banning food exports to NK for that.

So the US, with 10 times the budget, can do 10 times better?

I don’t hope you get treated how the west treats Palestinians

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If you doubt this number, you’re an authoritarian tankie genocide denier too!

Scientology is a cult which rich people join because there are other rich people, it’s a manifestation of class power. In the US it’s Scientology, in Spain it’s Opus Dei…

Israel I did provide an answer for.

“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.

Israel has extraordinary influence because it’s backed by the US, Scientology is also from the US…

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.

Half of the US still believes Isntreal is right, the other half has found out about the reality of the colonization of Palestine by Isntreal only over the past 3 years, and they found out not because of US media but because of China-born social networks such as TikTok.

murders 1 million Algerians in the 1960s because they want to be inependent from democratic France

Mad, tankies?

RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA WHATABOUTISM STRAWMAN NO TRUE SCOTSMAN TANKIE

“Everything I consider bad in the world is the fault of those pesky easterners”

Now please, explain to me how the propaganda apparatus of a decrepit post-soviet nation with an economy the size of Italy has a bigger, more powerful and more pervasive propaganda apparatus than the US empire and the EU together.

Cool, why don’t you tell us of these options that actually exist and defeat capitalism for extended periods of time in large portions of the world?

Libs seeing USSR yearly GDP growth slow down to 3% for a decade: communism always FAILS

Libs seeing capitalism in Europe stagnate for 20 years with ever-worsening living conditions and the approaching threat of fascism: GO GO CAPITALISM!!

Instead of guesswork related to your own personal experiences you could, you know, ask the people who self-describe as socialists. I’ll tell you my story of radicalization:

I’m a Spaniard who was enamored with the Podemos leftist party back when it spawned last decade. Then I saw the state apparatus (the police in particular) manufacture false evidence of funding of said party by Venezuela and Iran, and “leak” it to media. Then I saw state and capitalist media collude to air 1h every day of anti-podemos lawfare bullshit followed by 1h of news about Venezuela and inflation, and with this they scared the population into not voting for them, and in 2026 this party is essentially dead. Audios of the journalists and media owners conspiring, aware of the evidence being false, have surfaced. Police chiefs like Villarejo have come out in trial and in Congress declaring as much. Nobody has gone to jail.

Then I looked at Greece, where they elected an actual leftist party in the 2010s (Syriza) on the premise of abandoning austerity policy and investing in the welfare state. And I saw how the country got threatened out of the Euro and the EU by the EU authorities and the Troika, and how they weren’t allowed to enact the democratic will of the people of carrying out a debt restructuring and progressive fiscal and monetary policy.

Then I looked at France, where LFI gained majority vote last elections and all other parties conspired to keep them out of gocwenment.

I looked at Chile, where Allende won a democratic vote to enact a socialist government, and he was couped by the USA. I looked at Iran, where Mosaddeq was elected democratically to carry out socialist secular policy, and he was couped by the USA and the UK.

I realized that social democracy does not allow leftism in institutions. So I started to look for alternatives outside social democracy seeing the looming threat of fascism in the horizon.

I looked at my own country, Spain: who had fought the fascists in our civil war? The anarchists Damn, we lost. I looked to other alternatives, the ones who actually defeated fascism.

That’s when I learnt about the USSR, initially extremely skeptical, and increasingly seeing how all I knew about it had been wrong! THEY defeated Nazism and not the US. They had universal healthcare, free education to the highest level, guaranteed employment and guaranteed housing!!! Sure, it was an imperfect system, but it was one which challenged capitalism, tsarism and Nazism, and for the biggest part of the last century against all odds, defeated them.

So I’m a communist: I support the system that FEEDS THE CHILDREN AND KILLS THE NAZIS.