• samus12345@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The comic is mocking the idea that Republicans call Democrat policies “communist.” If they were, this is what the Communist Revolution would have looked like.

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      4 months ago

      Okay now I got it, I was second guessing if it happened like that in Russia during the revolution.

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        No, they were robbing and killing everyone who even slightly reminded “the bourgeoisie”, “to build an equal society of workers”. They also sold whatever they could abroad (they sold a fucking Alaska!), and villagers who stopped being serfs less than a century before, became modern slaves who couldn’t leave their kolhoz (farming cooperative).
        Edit: the big sale also involved grain, which led to starvation