• NewDark@lemmings.world
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    24 days ago

    The communists werent fascist, they were communist.

    I didn’t think I’d need to say that but here we are.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      The 1930s USSR was squarely under the rule of Joseph Stalin, a brutal dictator. It was a time of mass starvation and persecution.

        • JLock17@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          23 days ago

          I’m surprised the comments seem to be defending authoritarianism like it’s any more acceptable than fascism. “Stalin may have had millions of people killed and fueled the negative reputation of communism world wide for nearly a century, but at least he wasn’t a fascist.”. I don’t seem to understand why democratic social ownership is considered a worse alternative than letting a centralized tyrannical government harm people unchecked.

          • NewDark@lemmings.world
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            23 days ago

            “shooting a home invader and killing the neighbor next door are both violent killings, so we should classify them both as murder” - you, probably.

      • NewDark@lemmings.world
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        24 days ago

        Authoritarian is not fascism. It is a component, but communism and fascism are not even close to synonymous.

        There was one famine from mismanagement, and Stalin wasn’t a great guy but this shit is really overblown.