Slop.

Umm…okay? What is this image supposed to prove? That communists’ claims and arguments must be false because anticommunists make similar claims and arguments that we know are false? That liberal anticommunists aren’t in the habit of denying or mollifying extermination campaigns?

The gulags were actually very nice.

I have never seen anybody seriously argue this.

Sports and theatres may have indeed been common amenities in the labour camps, but that does not mean that they made them ‘nice’; only that they made life more tolerable for the inmates and that the Soviet authorities probably were not the inhumane savages that the ruling class wants everybody to believe. Call me a pedant if you want, but I am not the one who brought it up.

There’s a minor detail wrong in The Gulag Archipelago, so it’s proof that Solzhenitsyn made it all up.

I’ve never seen anybody argue this either. Also, there was more than one ‘minor detail’ wrong with an antisemitic anticommie’s story book. What a disingenuous claim. Do some real research (for once) and quit putting all of your trust in fiction.

Trust the bourgeois liberals?

Sometimes they can be trusted to tell the truth on occasion; you just have to exercise scrutiny and think for yourself. J. Arch Getty is not exactly a hardline communist, but it is clear that his paper Victims of the Soviet Penal System in the Pre‐war Years is more mature and more reasonable than… I don’t know… the John Birch Society. Or the Cato Institute. Or the author of this image.

The Poles? Oh, they ABSOLUTELY had it coming.

In reference to…what, exactly? The Red Army killing antisocialist insurgents and agents in eastern Poland, maybe?

I really don’t care what nationality an antisocialist has. @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml is Polish and I almost never even think about their nationality. I suppose that somebody could argue that the Polish populace’s politics tend to be more right‐wing than those of other European states, but people’s politics have little (if anything) to do with their national origins.