How Putin Fooled the Western Left (www.youtube.com)

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[-] ananas@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 year ago

I have yet to meet a single pro-Russian leftist in my country. Or a tankie. Sure, shit like lemmygrad, r/communism, etc. exists, but you have to go digging pretty deep to find those people.

Most leftists I know, even those who identify as socialists are pretty much in the "yeah, fuck Russia" camp. To the point that they openly advocate financing Ukraine.

This video is blatant propaganda piece, and not even truthful at what it tries to be.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

I don't know which country you live in but I know podcasters and other influencers in Germany and sadly also met their kind in person and passed by a protest. It is real.

[-] Jessper@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

The point isn't that they exist, but that they are an extreme minority. Pretending that the left wing parties are somehow tricked because of this is propaganda.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Well, Germany has one left wing party (most others self-identify as center) and it is not long untill it seperates into two about this and other questions. Sure, it's not "The Left" as a whole, but at the end of the video, he says that not everybody on the left supports Putin. It still is a seizable group within the (radical) left.