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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

At this point isn't this monument just a blatant anti-communist propaganda piece? If the people this monument honors are Nazis, then maybe building it at all was not a good idea.

Imagine if they try to save the monument and replace it with one with no names on it. Lol.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Victims of communism was created by the CIA to spread anti communist propaganda. There are few if any facts in any of their ridiculous statements.

The only real victims of communism were Nazis, kings, and people that aided those groups. Any monument with random names from 'victims' will only realistically have Nazis on it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago

The only real victims of communism ....

That is 100% false. In the German Democratic Republic people got killed for trying to get out. Victims of communism as an organisation is bullshit, but there is no need to act as if there weren't some people who seriously died unfairly.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

There were plenty of gay victims of (USSR) communism.

Of course, I'm sure the monuments these conservatives love don't have any of those names

[–] surph_ninja 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Don’t they also count Soviet abortions as “victims of communism”?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If the people this monument honors are Nazis,

One name of a Nazi collaborator was found there. It's absolutely ridiculous to leap from that to "this is a monument honoring Nazis."

Millions of people were killed by Stalin. It's little wonder that a few objectionable names might be scattered among them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Millions of people were killed by Stalin

Ok, but was Stalin a communist? Because the USSR sure as hell didn't seem like a classless, stateless society

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

At least one of them was killed for collaborating with nazis. Why did Stalin kill the rest of them?

[–] Zorque 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cause Stalin was an autocratic douchebag who used people for his own power games?

Doesn't really have a whole lot to do with communism, though.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Zorque 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

So there was more than one autocrat in charge? Like... some sort of... oligarchy or something?

You need more than a dozen or so "leaders" for communism... or, to be accurate, you need none.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Those leaders were all elected, as were all but the lowest level of the communist party. Nearly every communist party is structured this way.

[–] Maalus 3 points 1 day ago

Boy, tankies will pull out everything to defend an authoritarian regime that killed millions.