• JasBC@beehaw.org
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      the modern russian state is not the soviet union, it is who america put in charge after creating a situation that led to millions of deaths.

      The fact that you can believe this narrative literally spawned by the people who currently control and siphon away 50% or more of Russia’s entire GDP into foreign bank accounts under the whip of Vladimir “East German KGB-operative” Putin is pretty astounding.

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        Hey, just fyi, there are different branches of communism. The most popular ones vehemently oppose Russia, China, and North Korea.

        u/CommunistLady is part of the delusional few who are pro-China, but please don’t attack communists as a whole because of the loud idiots.

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        Your outrage is completely misguided.

        Say Russia was trying to “exterminate gay people”: it is a capitalist country.

        You can’t present the deeds of capitalists as evidence of communist wrongdoing.

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          …it would great if the tankies could understand that fact to be case in any other context when discussing Russia, but they don’t, so we won’t.

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              Because it isn’t logical, because it is all a mess. Yet because Russia claims Soviet glory and tankies actively shows the current regime reverence as if Putin was a General Secretary, it is rather hard to actually make a distinction between the current authoritarian regime and the one of the Soviets - the fact of the matter is that Russian political culture whether royalist, communist or capitalist doesn’t change.