Am I the only one who gets bunch of posts from leftist and even communist subs/circlejerks in their feed? It’s kinda weird to see genzedong and similar popping up in hot/rising feed. This just hopefully some of the growing pains of a new platform.

  • CrimeDad@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Uh huh, and how many of those “victims of communism” were actually some of the worst people in the world at the time, like Czarists and Nazis? Sorry your grandfather is bitter that he didn’t get the dacha he wanted or whatever.

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      Considering that my grandfather was an officer in the polish navy… You’re barking up the wrong tree buddy. He would have been “blessed” by the communist government to hold his position. He would be “privileged”. And still holds the USSR as literally the worst thing he’s had to live through. Imagine that.

      But keep making assumptions about stuff you clearly know nothing about nor have lived through.

      Edit: Forget the fact that even though my Grandfather would have been “privileged”. Many of my family weren’t… They were murdered and sent to Siberia to be forgotten. I literally have names… of people who were directly related to me. But come back and tell me they were the worst in the world… My family came from nothing and did nothing in the grand scheme.

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        1 year ago

        Sorry that your family had a bad time. It’s still wild that you don’t think the Nazis were incomparably worse.

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          You cannot use “incomparably” and “worse” in the same sentence. Worse designates a comparison between two things. Meaning one is inferior to the other. If by worse we are talking about murder (because this is what the conversation was pointed to), let’s look at the numbers: Hitler - roughly 20 mil including soviet civilians Stalin - Roughly 45 million Mao - Roughly 40 million (in a 4 year period) Ongoing Uyghur genocide in modern day Communist China - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22278037 MINIMUM 500K in camps with an estimated 12 million persons who identify in that group. Obviously the government isn’t going to actually disclose the REAL numbers.

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            You can indeed describe something as incomparably worse when it is so bad that a comparison doesn’t make sense or there’s no point to making one. I really don’t think I’m the one who’s out of line here.

            Anyway, the whole “victims of communism” trope you’re invoking is just embarrassingly facile. The numbers are contrived and no consideration is ever given to the terrible conditions out of which the various revolutions came or the horrible forces they were subsequently up against, let alone comparative conditions in the so-called free world. Everyone who ever lived and died in a communist state is a crime against humanity, but whenever someone dies in the US because they had to choose between medicine and rent it’s their own damn fault. Give me a break.

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                  I just look at numbers. Once you start discounting certain human lives over others, it all becomes dangerous.

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                    You’re the one discounting lives. The murder rate for the Holocaust was at least 1.25 million per year and they had plans to keep going. The dubious allegations in the Black Book of Communism don’t even come close to that kind of efficiency and completely discount the lives saved by having defeated the Nazis, which would not have been possible without the USSR’s incredible sacrifice. It’s one thing to have resentment for communism. It’s just incredibly messed up to say that it’s as bad or worse than Nazism.