It has come to my attention that there is some minor unrest on Hexbear due to statements they believe I made that they did not appreciate. there has been some small misunderstanding regarding them, so allow me, dear reader, to make my position clear so these terrible rumors can be put to rest.
some time ago, another user on our matrix asked for tips on trolling Hexbear in their communities. specifically, they asked what might be said that would garner the most rage. as I generally consider myself to be the obliging sort, I offered what pearls of wisdom I could.
now, a thoughtful reader might wonder why I didn't react with abject horror at the idea of someone trolling Hexbear, for that, I can only say that perhaps I thought it was proper comuppence for the brigading and harassment Hexbear used to perpetrate across the fediverse.
but I digress. the specific pearls of wisdom I offered were as such.
le gasp! how terrible! what scoundrel, what worthless cur would say that the soviet civilians deserved such a fate! genocide! fascist! liberal!
as you might have guess, discerning reader, Hexbear posits that such a scoundrel is me. they insist, that by saying the soviets deserved what they got, that I am actively supporting the genocide of twenty-seven million civilians. there are two problems with this, however.
one, I never said civilians. this is a word put into my mouth by tankies that are too fucking stupid to understand plain english. one would think that it is pretty obvious that it wasn't some poor farmer that was invading Poland for profit, but if one were to think such, then one wouldn't be a braindead tankie shitstain, and would instead be someone at least capable of the level of higher thought that evolution gave a jellyfish. it's pretty obvious to normal people that the ones gleefully invading other countries alongside the nazis were, in fact, soldiers. here they were at least right when they assumed I was gleefully celebrating the deaths of those soldiers. they fought with the nazis, they invaded other countries, and they don't get to absolve themselves of working with the nazis just because hitler turned on them, and tankies think that the country that supposedly single-handily fought and won WW2 are also the poor victims of the war, who had no choice in their actions.
two, there were no soviet civilians, merely innocent asian/eastern european souls that were held hostage by the soviet oligarchy and forced into starvation and destitution by an authoritarian system that valued propaganda more than human beings. the vast majority of those people probably would not have chosen to live in a dystopian hellhole were they given a chance, any more than the average North Korean wants to starve to death under the Kims. they were as much soviets as you or I, merely people with no freedom, and no other option but to live under the crushing boot of the imperialist USSR. they didn't help the nazis, because they were powerless in the face of the state.
neither of these two points has stopped Hexbear from whipping themselves into a frothing echo chamber of self-righteous disgust and anger, and demanding that I be removed from my mod positions and banned. a demand which has, so far, fallen on deaf ears that are used to the utter bullshit so often spewed by these feckless internet warriors. if there was an award for arguing in bad faith, we all know the reeking denizens of the lower planes we all colloquially call The Triad would win it.
as you probably have gathered by now, this is not an apology. I did not do anything wrong, especially not what they have accused me of, and so I will not apologize for it. not that they would be willing to consider such an apology anyway, because for them there is only one truth, and that is that they are always right, and everyone who is not them is an enemy and always wrong.
now, they have banned me, and so they can't see this, so I will instead tag @cowbee@lemmy.ml, a known affiliate of these heathens, who spent three paragraphs the other day downplaying the persecution of LGBT+ in the USSR before grudgingly using a mere two sentences in admitting the treatment.
my one regret, of course, is that since I have now blocked everyone from The Triad, I won't be able to read the no doubt angry replies they are fiercely typing out, in which they'll likely pour over my history to try and find something they can spin as damning evidence to back up their preconceptions. actually, now that I consider it, I find I don't regret that at all.
in conclusion, I want to say thank you to the comrades that have supported me through these almost trying times, fuck you to the haters who want to be me, and thank you to the haters who made the thread about me on c/Slop like I asked. you're the real MVP!
God fucking damn it, they keep pivoting from one awful position to another. They have literally no idea about anything to do with WWII and, like, if you asked them neutrally what actually happened on the eastern front starting from the Nazi invasion of Poland, I can't tell you what they even think happened beyond the Soviets also invading Poland and that the Nazis fought the Red Army in some manner. Like, surely they aren't comparing US soldiers being killed by militants in Iraq and Afghanistan to the Red Army being killed in Stalingrad, right?
Also, "to look good and say you didn't lose" what the fuck? This is just a black hole of ignorance, no grip on reality just more downplaying of millions of people killed in Nazi conquest.
Edit:
Imagine thinking this about Stalingrad. Even chuds don't say this about Stalingrad, because even they understand that the USSR would have surely been overrun by everyone's estimate if they lost there, having been basically steamrolled in many conflicts up to that point (though some did hold out better before falling).
Edit 2: Like, if you say Red Army deaths in the Winter War were "deserved," fine, I don't agree but I don't agree with the Soviet invasion there either. If you want to say that Red Army deaths caused by the Polish army during the Soviet invasion, whatever, you don't understand why the invasion happened, but whatever. Saying the Red Army had it coming in Leningrad wrt to the Continuation War? That's sicko shit but I can still see why you'd say it, even if I strongly object. Saying that the Red Army, while simultaneously being victims of Stalin, had it coming in fucking Stalingrad? You need to log off and probably never log back on because something is hurting your psyche in a profound manner that I can't begin to grasp unless you're also a teenager.
Lastly, fuck db0 for accusing us of spreading "misinformation". I gave you a lot of credit in the past, but clearly I was just misunderstanding something.
Edit 3: I won't recapitulate all of it, but unruffled flattening this as being "critical of the USSR" is such a bad, bad joke. It's also wild how these people seem to think that the USSR could have won the war with a magic wand, since M-R was a "disgrace," the Battle of Stalingrad was a vanity project, and I'm sure as they keep talking they'll have more wonderful takes on the rest of it. I complain a lot about the anarch-ish side of the Spanish Civil War, and I think taking that telecom building from them was obviously necessary because they used it to sabotage the Republicans, but I don't fucking cheerlead the Francoists steamrolling the anarchist communes.
I think this is fundamentally just a person saying "haha, you're upset that I said Nazi shit which means I owned you, also I didn't say Nazi shit and you're lying about me". In the end, despite claiming to be an anarchist, I can't see much of a difference between him and any irony-poisoned 4chan neo-nazi based on this series of interactions.
Would that be the Stalingrad where the Soviets encircled and destroyed an entire Nazi army, completely reversing the course of the war?
Yeah, according to him it was just because Stalin didn't want Stalinville to fall because it's his city (even more so than the rest of the country, which was his private property too), and a good leader would have had the Red Army abandon Stalingrad and keep retreating east to win with fewer casualties. How could they win if they kept fleeing east? Typical tankie, can't think critically.
Yea that was ridiculous.