I mean, clearly the system is broken. Putting another dipshit in charge doesn’t even seem like a bandaid, even if it is a Democrat. Like, what, I’m supposed to believe Gavin fucking Newsom or whoever the fuck is going to right the ship and establish checks and balances?

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    The civil war, where the Tsarist regime tried their best to destroy the popular revolution and reinstate their old monarchist system? Where western countries like the US, UK, France, etc invaded to try to crush the fledgling socialist system?

    What colonial wars? The USSR had no colonies.

    The famines, which outside of World War II when the Nazis deliberately attacked their farms, and outside of the 1930s, which had famine induced by weather disaster and magnified by privledged capitalist farmers called “kulaks” destroying their livestock and grain to prevent collectivization? The famines that were common under the Tsar, but ended under the soviets?

    The purging of fascists, opportunists, and criminals from the party in a widespread anti-corruption campaign supported by the people?

    The prisons, which every country has?

    I don’t follow your point, it seems to just be word salad trying to list off a bunch of buzzwords with no actual point behind any of them.

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        6 days ago

        That wasn’t something all prisons in the Soviet Union did, many soviet prisons were actually more humane than their peers and had visitations or even the ability to leave on certain days. The idea of the brutal forced labor camp being the only form of soviet prison, as though the minority of prisons was the majority, is an example of how the Red Scare took kernals of truth and distorted them heavily.

        Moreover, assuming you’re from Germany based on your instance, your country absolutely had far worse forced labor camps, that was a major feature of the Holocaust. The Soviet Union also had prison reform as well, so I really don’t know what your point is.

    • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
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      6 days ago

      The famines, which outside of World War II when the Nazis deliberately attacked their farms, and outside of the 1930s, which had famine induced by weather disaster and magnified by privledged capitalist farmers called “kulaks” destroying their livestock and grain to prevent collectivization?

      You’re really looking at this through red-tinted glasses. It’s ok to admit that there were also serious missteps by Stalin that magnified the extent of this famine, and that it was intentionally made worse for some ethnic minorities.