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[–] NoTime 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No one is suggesting that the states the authoritarian communists replaced were good or functional, just that they failed to actually uplift and make people's lives better. There's nothing to admire about one oppressive state being replaced by another.