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    4 hours ago

    Describing ethnicity based deportations and gulags as “”““prisons””“” is one hell of a stretch.

    This also neglects the amount of emancipatory legislation that Stalin repealed during his reign. Like recriminalizing homosexuality, abolishing the local language initiatives and instead pushing for his russification of the country (compare the ethnic make up of the Soviet leadership in 1921 and 1939)

    The Soviet Union had its successes and it had its abject failures. Acknowledging them doesnt make you a librul or a revisionist.



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    Imma be real: If someone tries to tell me, that Stalin’s purges were totally justified, they’re a tankie. If someone tells me that only “bad people” have suffered under regimes trying to achieve communism, they’re a tankie. If someone tells me that I must support Iran or Russia because they are not the US, they might be a tankie.