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[–] Tja@programming.dev 13 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

It's not. Stalin and Mao should ring a bell.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Authoritarians would be more correct.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, you have those both left and right flavors. Conservatives don't have a monopoly on genocides m

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

You can't not call Stalin conservative given he worked on destroying everything Lenin built, he was the worse kind of conservative, the kind that actually wants to go back and remove recent advancements

[–] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 11 hours ago

Stalin a conservative, huh?

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago

Pol Pot comes to mind

[–] lucyph0r@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Thank you for the context! While they don't ring a bell, I am miserable American. Perhaps the ensuing esearch I do will help. Ty. Edited to add that of course they ring a bell. Just not in th3 context of these posts.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 21 hours ago

Look up katyń or holodomor, or great leap forward.