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  • Lemmy libs: We cAn VOte aWAy THe fASisctS!

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  • The distribution of medicine in the USSR, a much poorer country, was widely available because of the socialist economy and distribution of resources. Medicine does not magically appear, economics decides how and where it goes.

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  • No? Socialism made a life-saving medicine more widely available.

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  • Is lemmy.world anti-humanity for banning anti-Zionists?

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  • And the really angry ones tend to be banned for some flavor of bigotry.

  • When you invest in infrastructure instead of wars

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  • You entirely ignored when someone from China directly told you what Chinese policy is for this kind of thing.

  • Liberal logic

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  • The communists were never allies with the Nazis. A non-aggression pact is not an alliance. The communists spent the decade prior trying to form an anti-Nazi coalition force, such as the Anglo-French-Soviet Alliance which was pitched by the communists and rejected by the British and French. The communists hated the Nazis from the beginning, as the Nazi party rose to prominence by killing communists and labor organizers, cemented bourgeois rule, and was violently racist and imperialist, while the communists opposed all of that.

    When the many talks of alliances with the west all fell short, the Soviets reluctantly agreed to sign a non-agression pact, in order to delay the coming war that everyone knew was happening soon. Throughout the last decade, Britain, France, and other western countries had formed pacts with Nazi Germany, such as the Four-Power Pact, the German-French-Non-Agression Pact, and more. Molotov-Ribbentrop was unique among the non-agression pacts with Nazi Germany in that it was right on the eve of war, and was the first between the USSR and Nazi Germany. It was a last resort, when the west was content from the beginning with working alongside Hitler.

    Harry Truman, in 1941 in front of the Senate, stated:

    If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.

    Not only that, but it was the Soviet Union that was responsible for 4/5ths of total Nazi deaths, and winning the war against the Nazis. The Soviet Union did not agree to invade Poland with the Nazis, it was about spheres of influence and red lines the Nazis should not cross in Poland. When the USSR went into Poland, it stayed mostly to areas Poland had invaded and annexed a few decades prior. Should the Soviets have let Poland get entirely taken over by the Nazis, standing idle? The West made it clear that they were never going to help anyone against the Nazis until it was their turn to be targeted.

    Churchill did not take the Nazis as a serious threat, and was horrified when FDR and Stalin made a joke about executing Nazis. Churchill starved millions to death in India in preventable ways, and had this to say about it:

    I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.

    Meanwhile, the soviet famine in the 1930s was the last major famine outside of wartime in the USSR, because collectivized farming achieved food security in a region where famine was common. As a consequence, life expectancy doubled:

    The Nazis and soviets were never allies. A non-aggression pact is not an alliance, and the non-aggression pact between the soviets and the Nazis was unique among the other non-aggression pacts in that it was on the eve of war. The soviets knew war was coming, and so bought more time to prepare.

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  • Lend-Lease helped, but the reason the communists beat the Nazis and saved the world was already because they had turned the tide of the war before the arms arrived. Contrary to pop-culture depictions of World War II, the soviets did not use "human wave" style attacks, and the communists were in fact greeted as the liberators they were. The Nazis brought genocide wherever they went, while the communists saved the world.

    Nobody here is forgetting history, you're inventing history.

    The USSR had steady and consistent economic growth, and provided free, high quality education and healthcare, full employment, cheap or free housing, and fantastic infrastructure and city planning that still lasts to this day despite capitalism neglecting it. This rapid development resulted in dramatic democratization of society, reduced disparity, doubling of life expectancy, tripling of functional literacy rates to 99.9%, and much more. Living in the 1930s famine would not have been good, but it was the last major famine outside of wartime because the soviets ended famine in their countries.

    Literacy rates, societal guarantees in the 1936 constitution, reports on the healthcare system over time, and more are good sources for these claims.

    The USSR brought dramatic democratization to society. First-hand accounts from Statesian journalist Anna Louise Strong in her book This Soviet World describe soviet elections and factory councils in action. Statesian Pat Sloan even wrote Soviet Democracy to describe in detail the system the soviets had built for curious Statesians to read about, and today we have Professor Roland Boer's Socialism in Power: On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance to reference.

    When it comes to social progressivism, the soviet union was among the best out of their peers, so instead we must look at who was actually repressed outside of the norm. In the USSR, it was the capitalist class, the kulaks, the fascists who were repressed. This is out of necessity for any socialist state. When it comes to working class freedoms, however, the soviet union represented a dramatic expansion. Soviet progressivism was documented quite well in Albert Syzmanski's Human Rights in the Soviet Union.

    The truth, when judged based on historical evidence and contextualization, is that socialism was the best thing to happen to Russia in the last few centuries, and its absence has been devastating.

    Death rates spiked:

    And wealth disparity skyrocketed alongside the newly impoverished majority:

    Capitalism brought with it skyrocketing poverty rates, drug abuse, prostitution, homelessness, crime rates, and lowered life expectancy. An estimated 7 million people died due to the dissolution of socialism and reintroduction of capitalism, and this is why the large majority of post-soviet citizens regret its fall. A return to socialism is the only path forward for the post-soviet countries.

    When you look at the US Empire and western Europe as having higher quality of life than the USSR, you are looking at the benefits of imperialism, colonialism, and neocolonialism and wishing the USSR also practiced this, instead of helping liberate colonies and the global south. Russia in particular was a semi-feudal backwater in 1917, and made it to space 5 decades later. The USSR was not the picture of wealth, but was for its time the picture of development and rapid progress.

    Communism works in theory and in practice.

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  • I'm aware that the protests had wildly different requests, from hardliners opposing Reform and Opening Up to the "Pro-Democracy" student-led movement. The student-led movement had CIA connections at the leadership level, and by the time of June 4th the "Pro-Democracy" movement was all that was really left.

    There wasn't an "unarmed column of PLA soldiers," you're confusing the events of June 3rd with June 2nd. June 3rd saw clashes between rioters, who had taken PLA arms and were fighting, while reports are admittedly mixed on whether or not rioters murdered the PLA officers on the morning of the 3rd alone, or in addition to June 2nd. Either way, the rioters did jump unarmed soldiers who were not deployed as a part of the main force moving in, even wikipedia backs this up.

    The CPC narrative has not been credibly countered. Eyewitness accounts do not point to hundreds of extra deaths in concrete terms, they just point towards that being a possibility. As for you walking a point back, I mean when you went in and saw the twitter account saying that the lynched PLA officer had murdered 4 people, which the twitter account stated came from the ones lynching him. I pointed that bit out and then you seemed to have walked it back.

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  • Gotcha, you don't, so you're just inventing a scary-sounding version of events.

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  • The DPRK has a functional democratic system, yes, and isn't a monarchy. I think my comment already answered this. Further, having higher or lower income does not make someone a different class.

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  • They didn't, they agreed to "spheres of influence" that the other group was to not enter in case of outbreak of war. The soviets did not "split Poland" with the Nazis, the soviets only went in weeks after the Nazis did. Most of the area the Soviets took are areas in modern Lithuania and Ukraine that the Soviets were re-taking. Poland had annexed them in the Polish-Soviet War and the Polish-Lithuanian War earlier.

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  • You can browse an instance without an account to check it out.

    Copying over @Marasenna@lemmygrad.ml's comment, as you can't see it due to being defederated from Lemmygrad.ml:

    You can’t “transfer a user” to another instance but you can transfer your subscriptions (including blocked users, blocked communities, saved posts, saved comments) and account settings. Go into your settings page (probably lemmy.world/settings) and then, on the right hand side above the Delete Account button, you’ll see a section where you can Import/Export your settings as a .json file. Do that, then go to a new instance, create an account there, and then upload that .json file into the import box in the same area (the one that says Browse…) on your new account at your new instance and then hit import.

    It’s super simple. I hope I explained it adequately.

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  • I referenced the liberation news article, and linked the images as a different matter. You were the one that started using it for claims beyond that, and now that the specifics behind the images are in question, you're deciding to walk that back. You can feel free to check the article and the sources it lists, like I already sent, rather than fixating on a twitter account I referenced for the images.

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  • Martial law was declared, and then rioters started killing unarmed PLA officers. This is what prompted the PLA's response, the violent clashes started after martial law was declared, and rioters started killing officers. Secondly, the source says much of this happened on June 2nd, which backs up the Liberation School article and its sources. Thirdly, the idea that the officer had already murdered 4 people came from the people who killed him, not an outside verified source. In an event where we already know much has been mythologized, this single officer may or may not have been guilty, but was far from the only murdered officer.

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  • Yep, agreed!

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  • Unfortunately, I think the reason this happens is because it's difficult to remain calm and optimistic within a western-dominated internet. Some comrades react emotionally, rather than trying to create new comrades, either out of exhaustion or a belief that it's too difficult.

    I think trying to raise the quality of how we engage with people as communists is one of the more important tasks with organizing.

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  • It's always a massive flex to be able to link epubs you've created, haha. Great work!

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  • The problem is that the communists were good, and the actual Nazi collaborators were bad. The communists were never allies with the Nazis. A non-aggression pact is not an alliance. The communists spent the decade prior trying to form an anti-Nazi coalition force, such as the Anglo-French-Soviet Alliance which was pitched by the communists and rejected by the British and French. The communists hated the Nazis from the beginning, as the Nazi party rose to prominence by killing communists and labor organizers, cemented bourgeois rule, and was violently racist and imperialist, while the communists opposed all of that.

    When the many talks of alliances with the west all fell short, the Soviets reluctantly agreed to sign a non-agression pact, in order to delay the coming war that everyone knew was happening soon. Throughout the last decade, Britain, France, and other western countries had formed pacts with Nazi Germany, such as the Four-Power Pact, the German-French-Non-Agression Pact, and more. Molotov-Ribbentrop was unique among the non-agression pacts with Nazi Germany in that it was right on the eve of war, and was the first between the USSR and Nazi Germany. It was a last resort, when the west was content from the beginning with working alongside Hitler.

    Harry Truman, in 1941 in front of the Senate, stated:

    If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.

    Not only that, but it was the Soviet Union that was responsible for 4/5ths of total Nazi deaths, and winning the war against the Nazis. The Soviet Union did not agree to invade Poland with the Nazis, it was about spheres of influence and red lines the Nazis should not cross in Poland. When the USSR went into Poland, it stayed mostly to areas Poland had invaded and annexed a few decades prior. Should the Soviets have let Poland get entirely taken over by the Nazis, standing idle? The West made it clear that they were never going to help anyone against the Nazis until it was their turn to be targeted.

    Churchill did not take the Nazis as a serious threat, and was horrified when FDR and Stalin made a joke about executing Nazis. Churchill starved millions to death in India in preventable ways, and had this to say about it:

    I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.

    Meanwhile, the soviet famine in the 1930s was the last major famine outside of wartime in the USSR, because collectivized farming achieved food security in a region where famine was common. As a consequence, life expectancy doubled:

    The Nazis and soviets were never allies. A non-aggression pact is not an alliance, and the non-aggression pact between the soviets and the Nazis was unique among the other non-aggression pacts in that it was on the eve of war. The soviets knew war was coming, and so bought more time to prepare.

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  • Would you prefer I word it as "non-violently?" Nobody died on the square, that's the point.

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    The Strategic Imperative of Expanding Domestic Demand

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    Opression creates its own resistance

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    Opression creates its own resistance

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    Opression creates its own resistance

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    Capitalist authority vs. worker authority

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    🤠Wild Wasteland Jingle🤠

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    Dialectical Materalism: How to Think Like a Marxist

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    Rest in peace, comrade Michael Parenti

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    Rest in peace, comrade Michael Parenti

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    Dialectical Materalism: How to Think Like a Marxist

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    Capitalist authority vs. worker authority

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    Capitalist authority vs. worker authority

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    Capitalist authority vs. worker authority

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    Whenever a Cuban exile downtalks Cuba and its revolution, always ask why!

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    Whenever a Cuban exile downtalks Cuba and its revolution, always ask why!

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    Whenever a Cuban exile downtalks Cuba and its revolution, always ask why!

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    End the blockade! No to sanctions!

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    Everything you've been told about Cuba is a lie

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    Blowback: Season 2 - The Cuban Revolution 🇨🇺

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    End the blockade! No to sanctions!