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I'm not a historian, but from a cursory reading of this article, I think these could be some starting points. (Going to post several comments, since Lemmy isn't letting me post my single long comment, it just keeps loading and loading and doesn't acutally send.)

Notice how for some parts, the only sources are quotes from Bolsheviks themselves, with a lot of talk around them to provide the wrong context, like this pretty amusing one at the start (putting them all inside spoilers because I don't like large paragraphs of reactionary drivel disrupting the flow of my comment):

Or this one; read carefully and you will notice that nowhere does this quote support the article's assertion in the paragraph right above it that the famine was done intentionally.

And right after that, they quote the black book of communism. Writing its title in French. I wonder whether that's a coincidence, or whether even they know that the black book isn't credible and try to hide that they're citing it. It should be well-known enough that it isn't credible that you don't need to do your own work investigating it and can dismiss it out of hand:

Then there are quotes like this. You could of course try to check whether it is real and what is the context, but without looking that far, it seems like a reasonable course of action to take for a revolution desperately fighting for its survival. The article is framing this as some unique evil as if any other army wouldn't have killed deserters.

Once you dismiss that part, there is the other half of the article, the one that alleges a lot of atrocities committed by the Bolsheviks.

I used tineye.com to reverse image search one of the pictures from that article, the one captioned "In the foreground, the body of the telegraph operator Ponomarenko in the Cheka of Kharkiv". Guess what I found? Look here. The pictures are at the bottom of this page, with the captions in the article being a translation of the Russian captions of the pictures in this thing. What is this thing? It seems to be a reprint/digitalization something captioned:

ОТДЕЛ ПРОПАГАНДЫ ОСОБОГО СОВЕЩАНИЯ ПРИ ГЛАВНОКОМАНДУЮЩЕМ ВООРУЖЕННЫМИ СИЛАМИ НА ЮГЕ РОССИИ, ЧАСТЬ ИНФОРМАЦИОННАЯ, 29 июня 1919 года, № 4338, г. Екатеринодар

СВОДКА СВЕДЕНИЙ О ЗЛОДЕЯНИЯХ И БЕЗЗАКОНИЯХ БОЛЬШЕВИКОВ № 19

which translates (sorry if I got something wrong, I'm not particularly knowledgeable about military terms, but the general menaing should be there):

PROPAGANDA DEPARTMENT OF THE SPECIAL CONFERENCE UNDER THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE ARMED FORCES ON THE SOUTH OF RUSSIA, INFORMATION DETACHMENT, 29 June 1919, № 4338, Yekaterinodar

REPORT ON THE EVIL DOINGS AND LAWLESSNESS OF THE BOLSHEVIKS № 19

So literal white army propaganda. Not exactly the most credible source.

This doesn't mean that there never were any excesses committed by the Cheka. But obviously the white army has an interest in depicting their enemy as extremely violent, excessive, and plain evil.

Chloe and her Eevee, from Pokémon.

Didn't have the time or motivation to watch or read other fiction in the last couple years. I guess that's why. And also Eevee is very cute.

[email protected] moderator here (though rather inactive lately). I agree, this is not how the community is supposed to be used. No-one said anything about it for a long time, so I figured everyone else was okay with it and kept it up.

So, how exactly to proceed now? It would be good to message the user and ask them to direct their posts to a more fitting community like [email protected] which they already moderate. Problem is, I don't speak Spanish. Does anyone on here speak Spanish and could write such message?

Just "authoritarian traits" sounds like a total understatement.

LMAO at all the liberals from lemmy.world already upset at this meme in the comment section, just an hour after it was posted

Cope and seethe

Any resources on what the concept of youth liberation is and how it might be implemented? This is the first time I've heard of it... (Yes, I know I could look it up, but considering how search engines can be biased or low-quality, I would rather ask someone already familiar with the concept.)

Reject modernity

Embrace tradition

Who is this guy? Does he have any actual influence or is he just some idiot on Twitter?

What is "a terrorist state" supposed to be anyway? Doing anything America doesn't approve of is terrorism?

Here's the thread where some discussion about it is happening: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1004007

In short, no real definite information yet. We don't know what exactly this means for the lemmygrad.ml domain and whether we can keep using it. Another .ml instance stopped working, though, that's why there are some concerns.

I see. I actually think it's good you posted this on here, so that we all are aware that there might be problems/downtime in relation to this and possibly a domain change. I'm sorry if I sounded too annoyed in my previous comment, that was annoyance at some of the Redditor types over there, not annoyance at you.

Does the FMHY owner have any information on what exactly happened? Did they get notified that the registration for their .ml domain got canceled? Any stated reasons? Or it just stopped loading one day and they figured that it's related to that? It would be good to know, for deciding how big of a concern it really is for Lemmy. (Sorry if all this is a stupid question, I'm not sure how exactly domain registration works.)

I'm also kind of confused when this taking back is happening. The FMHY post says "ongoing", while the domainincite.com article makes it seem like it's a thing in the near future. Any actual sources (especially any official statement by the entities involved) would be good. Searching for phrases like "Mali taking back .ml TLD" or "Mali TLD transfer" doesn't find me anything.

Though it does find this weird cluster of recent articles suddenly complaining about people misspelling .mil as .ml:

What exactly is meant with "taking back"? Does that mean only entities connected to Mali will be allowed to use .ml TLDs? I looked through the Lemmy thread, the only sources cited for the whole thing was this, which just sounds like fearmongering about Mali being friendly with Russia, and this article about Gabon intending to delete "millions of domains" after getting the .ga back from Freenom, which cites this (archive link because website didn't load for me) official communique, which says it will "put an end to abusive practices", which I assume would be their stated reason for deleting the TLDs, but doesn't say they will outright delete every TLD or disallow foreign registrations of .ga domains.

(Which is all about Gabon, a different country. But it can be seen as a precedent.)

My opinion? I don't think there is enough information to warrant taking such a drastic action as changing our domain preemptively. The only actual fact we know is that control of the .ml domain is going to Mali instead of a Dutch company. The linked Lemmy thread honestly reads like a bunch of Redditors stirring up panic. But there is actual reason for concern, since we simply don't know what they'll decide to do with existing registrations, and definitely should make a backup plan, for the case that Mali does decide to not let us have the .ml TLD.

I found mupdf quite a good PDF reader. Only downside is that it can't display table of contents.