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Cross-posted from "TRUE communism!" by @Muaddib@sopuli.xyz in !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh I see, they’re called ‘tankies’

What would you prefer we call you? Considering that the Bolsheviks managed the greatest single gold heist of the 20th century (from a nation being invaded by fascists, of course), would you prefer we call you "Goldies?"

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Me when I'm an anarchist who cares about state gold reserves.

Anyway, it was payment for the

  • 242 aircraft,
  • 703 pieces of artillery,
  • 731 tanks,
  • 1,386 trucks,
  • 300 armored cars
  • 15,000 heavy machine guns,
  • 500,000 rifles,
  • 30,000 sub-machine guns,
  • 4,000,000 artillery shells,
  • 1,000,000,000 machine gun cartridges,
  • over 69,000 tons of war material, and
  • over 29,000 tons of ammunition

That the USSR provided. Should they have given it for free? Should they have not given support at all? Would it have been better for the Republicans to just accept they were going to lose anyway and die with their gold? Would you prefer that gold to have been captured by the Fascists?

Besides, the actual greatest gold heist of the century was during Indian independence, when their entire gold reserves were airlifted to the UK in exchange for... nothing. Which I'm sure you knew about, having devoted a proportional amount of your time to looking into the actual crimes of capitalist nations as you have the fictional crimes of socialist ones.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Me when I’m an anarchist who cares about state gold reserves.

I don't care much for gold... but it seems to be one of the few things you tankies actually do care about.

But hey, tankie... good news! Now at least we know that there are at least two reasons tankies would actually bother to fight fascists at all, eh?

Anyway, it was payment for the

That is all the third largest gold reserve in the world at the time paid for? Just that measly amount of "aid?"

The Soviet Union got 7,411 aircraft from the western allies during WW2 - was Tankie Nr.3 forced to ship all his gold reserves to Washington DC, perhaps?