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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (22 children)

That's what annoys me the most. Tankies will go defend Russia like it's the promised land of communism, when the only remnant of communism it has is rigged elections and propaganda.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago (20 children)

Also wrong. Rigged elections would imply there ever was a communist Russia. There never was. It was (maybe at its best, in part) socialist and most of the time after the zars a military state. That is true for all states that were left leaning btw. No communists to be found.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is incorrect. The USSR was Socialist, and was attempting to work towards building Communism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes working towards as in socialism is the first stage to communism. But they didn't get far thus my argument was there wasn't communism in the USSR.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They got pretty far, they were Socialist for nearly the entire 20th century. They liberalized towards the end and were dissolved, but the narrative that they weren't Socialist or that it wasn't a real attempt at building Communism is nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes arguing that Russia was never socialist (or tried hard to be) would be nonsense. I am not arguing that though. I said that there was never communism. As in, archived and not used as veil to hide the failing government and society.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

What on Earth are you talking about?

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