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I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course) (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 1 year ago by soviettaters to c/showerthoughts
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I can't really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by "both" sides of the spectrum. It's just something I find interesting.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A lot of people there do yearn for the return of the USSR. You can argue about why, but the polling is quite clear that many people miss socialism

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"Why don't you ask people from Socialist countries what they thought"?

"Wait, not those people".

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

Where can I see that polling?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://lemmy.world/comment/1618443

Here’s a link to a comment with some polling

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So really not a lot of people, mostly Russians and countries that have strong ties to Russia.

That's what the first source says and as someone already pointed to a more recent polling showing that it's no longer the case for eastern European countries.

Hungary source is an old article and the same recent polling shows otherwise.

Romania source link doesn't even work.

Eastern Germany is a pretty complex and nuanced topic, one that I won't get into so I'll give that one the benefit of the doubt that they actually want soviet socialism back.

Czech source link also doesn't work.

Serbia source literally has the article saying "the Serbian citizens primarily refer to better economic situation and standard of living, but the majority of them would not go back to that period."

And then there's the Russian part, which is completely understandable considering the USSR was just a form of Russian imperialism.

[–] ProximaC 1 points 1 year ago

Russians are dying to get the old gang back together, that's for certain.