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[–] peterg@mstdn.plus -5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

@yogthos @Sabre363 I've also grown up in the USSR but the image you posted is an absolute false equivalency. While it can be argued that the idea of a communist state is quite liberal, Stalin does not represent that idea. He was an autocratic tyrant and a murderer. To equate the US Liberal movement to Stalin is a grave disservice to the liberal cause.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

When you spew more right wing bullshit than the CIA

Even in Stalin's time there was collective leadership. The Western idea of a dictator within the Communist setup is exaggerated. Misunderstandings on that subject are caused by a lack of comprehension of the real nature and organization of the Communist's power structure.

CIA. (1953, declassified in 2008). Comments on the Change in Soviet Leadership

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago

The liberal cause? You mean the genocide of indigenous people and the enslavement of black people?