Yes, communist movements in Europe and the US are getting suppressed. The violent phase occured 60-70 years ago. Now whatever is left is getting infiltrated and chopped up immediately through psyops. They are allowed to operate "unmolested" because they've been suppressed to hell and are now just husks used to sheepdog and manipulate people.

Take a look at Greece. KKE is vehemently anti-government but nobody cares to listen to it or takes it seriously, because there's constant infighting for nonsensical reasons. That's the controlled parts of the leadership constantly creating issues to prevent unified action. Any efforts by other communist movements are quickly destroyed by planting provocateurs in their marches and actions. Any spontaneous protest is immediately and violently suppressed by police forces. Similar things are happening in France, Spain and Germany.

Don't get me started on the state of communist movements in the US and the UK.

I'd suggest you take a look at the history of communism in all these places and understand that what is happening to all the former Soviet countries now, has already happened after 1945 all over the West.

This is just Western exceptionalism talking.

I said I'm not going to pretend Western communist movements are perfect. But you are quick to blame the strawman Western communist for imperialism. That's nothing more than sectarianism.

Yeah, Western communists ought to take up arms. But what arms? We are talking about extremely diminished movements in a fairly demotivated population, fighting against tanks, jets and drones. In countries like Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece, the communists tried to fight in the last century and failed. They are still carrying the stigma to this day. And yeah, a bunch of movements are bought for or otherwise institutionalized. How is that the fault of an everyday communist?

Lastly, you blame Western communists of decrying "all Ukrainians" as Nazis. Yet, you do the same exact thing by lumping all Western communists in the same basket.

Any archive links? RT is blocked here.

Elektron 1 was a Soviet satelite launched in 1964 to study radiation in space. It is still in Earth orbit and intact (but not functional).

Molniya is a series of Soviet satellites manufactured between 1965-2003. Many are still in orbit and functional to this day, with the oldest one hailing from 1977.

“It is a violent and racist program, where people pretending to be violent ICE officers got to hold guns and fire them in role-play situations where agents pretended to be immigrants,” said Ian Head, Open Records project manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) a legal center advocating and defending human and constitutional rights.

It's as if the US government is training and arming white racist gun-toting militias. Curious.... Hmmmmm!

By the way, it's worth looking at the presentations linked by the article. Especially this one:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1768KW4pKjW1HGF8qEz5mwT0ncwiXH13b/view (go to slide 20 and read on)

And this one:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hR8m3j1zffTn5fkdZj4YR-mWV07wmxn_/view#page=4

Can you elaborate on why he's a shit stain of a human being? Genuinely asking, because other than his name being vaguely familiar to me, I've never heard of him before.

Ah yes, the capitalists do space so much better than communists. Yeah.

Sales are nothing compared to the geopolitical hit the US is suffering. The entire existence, or at least, the diplomatic stance, budget/economy, politics of certain nations resides on assumptions made of the efficacy of US-made arms systems to defend them (e.g. Israel, South Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, etc etc).

I'm not well informed either, but every Western media outlet has suddenly decided to condemn Raeisi as "the executioner of the regime", "the butcher of Tehran" etc. Meanwhile, they've started pushing the narrative that in the upcoming elections to replace him, the current regime will collapse and "democratic forces" will prevail, because of the protests that were going on a while ago.

This tells me three things:

a) Raeisi might or might not have been a decent guy, but he was most likely quite popular.

b) The current Iranian government will come out of this crisis just fine.

c) The West will be trying to incite another color revolution in Iran in the coming weeks/months.

I see all your question marks on Jerboa

TLDR: I went through the whole story, from Hitler joining the German Worker's Party, to becoming chancellor and tried to be as factual as possible, regarding the events. I steered away (and disproved where possible) the "great man" theory regarding Hitler. I emphasized giving context regarding the social, economic and political situation at the time, the prevalent ideological movements among the Germans, how WW1 and the Depression shaped German politics. I tried to show in a materialist way, why the Nazis developed the beliefs they held and why many other Germans were sympathetic to their message.

The original question was that he didn't know that Hitler was Austrian and how come an Austrian became Germany's chancellor. He then asked why the Germans were willing to follow him.

I explained that he was born in Austria but his family were ethnic Germans. Austria-Hungary was a melting pot of cultures, but the state at that time was dysfunctional, resulting in hatred between different population groups. Many Austrian Germans wanted to secede to Germany, viewing other cultures as holding back the rest of them. Hitler was exposed to this rhetoric throughout his early life, especially when he was studying art in Vienna.

I then went through the economic and political effects of the aftermath of WW1 in Germany, and the stab-in-the-back myth ("the German army was going to win, but Marxist and Jew politicians capitulated before that happened"). I find that explaining this myth, is the easiest way for people to understand both how Germans were willing to follow Hitler, and how fragile German politics were becoming before his rise to power. Although, if you use this, you should probably state that it wasn't the only reason.

I explained how Hitler joined the German Worker's Party (precursor to the Nazi party), which by that point had already embraced anticommunism and antisemitism, which appealed to him. However, this kind of rhetoric was already prevalent in Germany, following decades of cultivation of German nationalism and jingoism, the Spartakist uprising, and the stab-in-the-back myth being used widely by the right-wing opposition parties.

I talked about the Munich coup, and how the goverment, especially the military, were sympathetic to it, and how the Nazis escaped with easy penalties.

I then explained how corporations and other nationalist entities supported and financed Hitler and the Nazis, as a way to bust unions, dismantle the worker movement, and to stop (violently) the communists from attaining power. His oratory skills and his actions at the coup quickly gained him supporters everywhere, but especially soin Bavaria and Saxony, which led to the Nazis joining the parliament.

We talked a bit about the Nazi paramilitary thugs and how they were used to suppress worker strikes or outright assassinate leftist figures. I also emphasized how the Nazis, by their own admission, were using leftist iconography and anti-capitalist rhetoric to attract workers to their cause, but that they hardly believed much of it. They also gained a lot of popular support by targeting with propaganda, and aiding financially, people in areas most hit by the depression. Especially farmers and war veterans.

Finally, I explained that following the 1929 referendum to annul the Versaille treaty, organized by Nazis and their allies, gave them a lot of support, which weakened the other traditional parties at the next elections. Chancellor Bruhning started ruling by decrees, to deal with the financial crisis, since the parliament basically could not pass anything. Following this breakdown of politics, and taking advantage of the massive financial and political support that the Nazis enjoyed from the capitalist class, Hindenburg was pressured to hand the chancellorship to Hitler.

Wherever possible, I tried to establish how the capitalist class was very much linked to the Nazi rise to power.

The US is probably looking to pull out, and are preparing their people for it. Biden's reelection probably depends on it.

You should tell that to Victoria Nuland then. The way these people see it, there's no difference. They hate what they call "Russia", no matter who rules it or what name it has.