Here's that thing you think doesn't exist. Straight-up 'the Soviet Union did nothing wrong and the holodomor didn't happen.' With people cheering him on. In an anarchist community.

Re-reading it now, he also insists the USSR saved Poland... y'know... after they split it in half. If people want to celebrate the Soviets' role in defeating Hitler, by all means shout it from the rooftops, but nobody got out of World War 2 completely innocent.

I just blocked that guy instead of getting into it - even though I apparently fucking adore getting into it - specifically because of past moderation on this instance. I will bicker and have it out with people for days, when I feel a topic is important, and continue having it out with the mods themselves if they want to intervene, and even I have simply written off most of this instance as an exclusion zone. Too many broadly-agreeable spaces are policed to enforce very specific opinions about really fucked-up topics.

You are mocking people's honest experiences of this instance. Its reputation is not some conspiracy. New users incidentally mention obvious problems with certain geopolitically important countries, get their comments erased or maybe eat a ban, and are told by old users - 'yeah, that'll happen.'

It's a broken stair.