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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

USSR

Thank god the "empire" funded and supported the rebels against the empire lmao

[–] rocket_dragon -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The Viet Cong are not the only rebels to have ever existed, the USSR is well known to use excessive military force against its own rebels.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Soviet_Union

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

excessive

How much force would have been appropriate then, do you think?

Also, NATOpedia article lmao