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  • Germany is one of the few countries that actually very critically review their own history and spend a lot of effort on teaching younger generations the horrors of war (and of national socialism obviously).

    Wow, wild how Germany supports the genocide in Israel then. You’d have thought they were actually taught about that sort of stuff in school.

    I’m guessing Germans also learned about how denazification didn’t really happen in the western occupation zone after like 47? And how many former nazis had high ranking positions in NATO?


  • OurToothbrush@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlCapitalist logix
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    6 days ago

    Like, the elected politicians and bureaucracy can’t be trusted enough to regulate industry under capitalism so we’ll centralize things and then trust them to regulate industry under Communism?

    Literally read State and Revolution by Lenin which talks about how people assume the state has a neutral character, but actually it has a class character reflecting who it is designed to serve.



  • Ok but socdem. And before you try to make a counter argument with [insert nordic country that is actually capitalist]

    ??? That is a novel take “let us split power with our oppressors, but Nordic countries don’t do that”

    they always call the ussr and china communist while they arent.

    Yeah the USSR was and China is a transitionary socialist state lead by a communist party.

    Get it together people.
















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    Oh, do you have private statements or writings where he was secretly supportive of it? Or are you operating entirely divorced from historical research?

    Also:

    Stalin often edited reports of Kremlin receptions, cutting applause and praise aimed at him and adding applause for other Soviet leaders.[33]

    Ignoring this bit i see


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    Wikipedia has a capitalism supporting bias and says this

    Like Lenin, Stalin acted modestly and unassumingly in public. John Gunther in 1940 described the politeness and good manners to visitors of “the most powerful single human being in the world”.[6] In the 1930s Stalin made several speeches that diminished the importance of individual leaders and disparaged the cult forming around him, painting such a cult as un-Bolshevik; instead, he emphasized the importance of broader social forces, such as the working class.[33][34] Stalin’s public actions seemed to support his professed disdain of the cult: Stalin often edited reports of Kremlin receptions, cutting applause and praise aimed at him and adding applause for other Soviet leaders.[33] Walter Duranty stated that Stalin edited a phrase in a draft of an interview by him of the dictator from “inheritor of the mantle of Lenin” to “faithful servant of Lenin”.[6]

    A banner in 1934 was to feature Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, but Stalin had his name removed from it, yet by 1938 he was more than comfortable with the banner featuring his name.[35] Still, in 1936, Stalin banned renaming places after him.[36] In some memoirs Molotov claimed that Stalin had resisted the cult of personality, but soon came to be comfortable with it.[37]

    The Finnish communist Arvo Tuominen reported a sarcastic toast proposed by Stalin himself at a New Year’s Party in 1935, in which he said: “Comrades! I want to propose a toast to our patriarch, life and sun, liberator of nations, architect of socialism [he rattled off all the appellations applied to him in those days] – Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, and I hope this is the first and last speech made to that genius this evening.”[38] In the beginning of 1938, Nikolai Yezhov proposed renaming Moscow to “Stalinodar”.[39] The question was raised at a session of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. Stalin, however, reacted entirely negatively to this idea and, for this reason, the city retained the name Moscow.[39]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin’s_cult_of_personality#:~:text=Stalin’s opinion of his cult,-Like Lenin%2C Stalin&text=In the 1930s Stalin made,such as the working class.