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[–] FlyingSquid 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I guess East Germany was "saved" in a similar manner. And the USSR saved Poland from itself!

[–] PugJesus 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You know, I have yet to hear a Tankie defend the Stasi. I assume they would, but I haven't heard it yet.

Then again, "everyone who was sent to the gulags deserved it" was a new one to me as of maybe two weeks ago.

[–] PugJesus 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just wait until you start hearing defenses of Ceaușescu and the Securitate.

[–] FlyingSquid 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My best friend growing up had Romanian parents who had escaped Causescu. They didn't tell us the bad stories.

I do know his dad had his index finger on his right hand partially cut off. He used to tell my friend that a bear ate it. Years later, I realized that was the finger you would use to pull a trigger and he was not the type of guy who would have willingly signed up to be in the Romanian military in the 1960s.

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

As someone who knows nothing about Eastern Bloc history, what was wrong with the Romanian military in the 1960s?

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Better to read about Causescu than the military itself. He was a monster. After he was finally deposed, he was convicted of genocide against his own people in a Romanian court because he was responsible for over 60,000 deaths.

The military was one the many tools in his arsenal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Holy fuck. Props to your best friend's dad; not enough people have the principles to follow through on something like that.

[–] Valmond 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Classic: insults, go read a book/video, you weren't in the trenches, it's just propaganda ...

I wonder what they are getting out of it.

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Valmond 2 points 2 days ago

Serotonin or dopamine? How does serotonin hit? I thought serotonin was a sleep regulating thing?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

~~White~~ Soviet man's burden

[–] zeppo 1 points 3 days ago

You and your useless leaders who never got to power and never had to face the realities of class war.