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Meanwhile On Grad

Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!

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Alternatively, a detailed blog post about Tankies.

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Sh.itjust.works Instance rules apply! If you are from other instances, please be mindful of the rules. — Basically, don't be a dick.

Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.

Apologia — (Using the Modern terminology for Apologia) No Defending, Denying, Justifying, Bolstering, or Differentiating authoritarian acts or endeavours, whether it be a Pro-CCP viewpoint, Stalinism, Islamic Terrorism or any variation of Tankie Ideology.

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Remember kids - if tankies fail, it was because of the CIA and 'wreckers', if other leftists fail, it's because They Were Destined To (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also uh, they were in a civil war. Do you know of a country that managed a good economy during a crisis level civil war?

Yes. The US. Mexico. Turkiye. Anarchist Catalonia.

The Bolsheveiks also won the civil war, which directly speaks to the success of war communism.

"We managed to squeeze the country so hard that an unprecedented number of literal millions died in famine, but at least we beat the aristocrats who were so incompetent that they couldn't drag their heads out of their asses for the full ten minutes needed to form a government"

Good job.

In some essence, sure, but definitely less than the USSR to the point it wouldn’t make much sense to call them democratic. I would argue that Nazi Germany was significantly less democratic than the USSR, as Nazi Germany did not have a functioning democratic system unlike the USSR, and the Reichstag really only convened to listen to Hitlers speeches. The Soviet Parliament convened somewhat frequently and did pass laws, regardless of its flaws or inadequacies.

Oh, yes, the Supreme Soviet unanimously ratifying everything placed in front of their noses was DEFINITELY a functioning democratic system. Literally what 'democratic centralism' meant. You DO realize this is an ANTI-tankie comm, right?

Yes the DPRK is a democracy, but it has a lot of problems (a lot the fault of the West)

Check, please!