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Well, I'm sorry you can't be bothered to have a conversation, I don't think I've been disrespectful to you.

I'm trying to be polite here and have a conversation, why are you unwilling to listen and instead engage in such behavior?

The article describes a time when I showed solidarity

I talked about your social media activity, not about you thinking something to yourself.

Yes. The article mentions (and condemns) this, as well

That's irrelevant to my point. "Nuanced criticism" of the Iranian government the week before it's invaded is bad strategy for socialists in the west, there's already plenty of criticism in all media due to the anti-Iranian government atrocity propaganda. The entire thing circles down to you having good intentions by posting about progressives in Iran being repressed, but doing so during a period of extreme duress in the country which has been caused by the US+EU governments sanctions, and at a time when the country is about to be invaded by the US.

Your intentions are noble and commendable, and I respect them, but you're unintentionally carrying water for the US invasion by replicating atrocity propaganda at this particular moment.

You linked a wikipedia article, did you write it yourself?

Because there are protests in Iran right now

And why exactly are those protests happening now, I wonder? Maybe because the US+EU imposed a sanction regime on Iran that has destroyed the national currency's exchange value and massively impoverished the vast majority of the population? I'm sure that's also coincidental and has nothing to do with attempts at regime change in the country. It's not like the US has ever explicitly said that it applies economic sanctions to create hunger, desperation and overthrow of governments. Oh, wait...

You maynever criticize an enemy government of the US

The word "never" is the key point here. You may very well criticize the Iranian government and defend the progressives in the country, but I would bet 100€ that if we go 1 year back on any of your social media, you have never made this criticism before. Why now particularly, during the military buildup by the US before the imminent attack on Iran? Why specifically Iran too? Clue: it's because the imperial propaganda apparatus has decided that discussing the repression in Iran right now is the agenda, as part of a larger atrocity propaganda campaign.

You ignored the second half of my comment, could you respond to that part? I'm not questioning that you have good intentions, I know you do, that's not my point. I just want you to understand that directing the conversation towards where you're directing it right before a military attack on Iran creates an easier atmosphere for the Empire to defend its invasion. It's almost the definition of atrocity propaganda:

"Atrocity propaganda is the spreading of information about the crimes committed by an enemy, which can be factual, but often includes or features deliberate fabrications or exaggerations. This can involve photographs, videos, illustrations, interviews, and other forms of information presentation or reporting".

With good intentions, undoubtedly, you're presenting information on the repression of progressives in Iran, which is a bad thing which is happening, but doing so right before the invasion amounts to atrocity propaganda by definition.

You promote imperial propaganda by giving voice to opposition one week before a US invasion of a country. The only reason why you happen to care about Iranian protestors is because of the constant western-manufactured atrocity propaganda, which doesn't need to be fake to serve its purpose of defeatism and of making opposition to armed invasion of Iran less unpalatable among progressives. It's the same tactic of western media overfocusing on Hamas violence in Palestine during a period of literal genocide by Israel.

More Palestinians were murdered daily during Biden administration on average than during Trump. That is not because Trump is better, but because genocide of Palestinians is a bipartisan issue in the USA.

Huh?

Obviously, my utmost respect to the brave workers and soldiers of all the ethnicities in the USSR that contributed to the slaughter of the Nazi monster, including not just Russians but Belarusians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Maris... Belarus and Ukraine took the worst part because they were occupied by the Nazis who had a policy of extermination of the Slavic peoples, it's truly horrifying what the people of said republics had to endure.

Good moment to join a union by yourself (and/or a socialist org like the PSL) and ask or directly organize yourself together with such orgs!

By Soviet sweat, blood and tears. The Soviet Union lost an unimaginable 25 million lives (with some regions like Belarus losing ONE IN THREE PEOPLE) in the struggle against Nazism. Say what you will about the Soviet Union but they are the liberators of Europe and they will have my eternal gratitude for it, especially as a Spaniard, since they were the only country in the Spanish Civil War to send weapons, tanks and planes to the antifascists. Forever will love the Soviet BT-5 tanks and the I-16 "moscas" in their labor of killing fascists in Spain!