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[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Holodomor was part of my studies In 2011. Blaming that situation on anyone but the soviets requires either some very uneducated opinions or serious mental gymnastics. Hexbear probably provides both.

The most favorable number to those who claim it wasn't a genocide is a death toll of 3.5 million by starvation.

To put that in context. The great Irish famine claimed about 1 million lives.

Ukrainians resisted soviet policies. Soviet responded by engineering a mass starvation as retaliation. Guess people can't resist you if they're too busy starving to death.

[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Man, these tankies are fun. They have been sniffing their own farts so much, it really isn't subtle with them anymore.

[-] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Every instance should defederate from Hexbear. It's the QAnon of the left.

[-] antifascist@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago
[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Wait, why is Xi as Winnie the Pooh racist?

[-] goat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

It's not. They believe it's racist because pooh is yellow.

In truth is the meme of portraying Chinese officials as cartoon characters comes from Chinese citizens. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense for Chinese citizens to be racist of themselves...

[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

I'm old. What are 'Tankies'?

[-] antifascist@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

it's actually a very old term that was recently revived. Khruschev intervened against CIA-backed fascist "revolutionaries" in Hungary in 1956. This caused a split in the Communist Party of Great Britain. those who supported the USSR's antifascist action in hungary were called "tankies". I'm not joking by the way. Liberals using the term "tankie" today to describe the so called "authoritarian" (antifascist, revolutionary, anti-imperialist) left are totally divorced from the origins of the term. It's just something they picked up. They have no insight into the historical origin of term in CPGB infighting.

[-] yata@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

You exemplify tankie behaviour perfectly with your deliberate blatant lies and attempt at gaslighting.

[-] goat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Do you have evidence?

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