The Spectre to Memes · 2 months ago"Stalin starved his population!”imagemessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down189
arrow-up1-15arrow-down1image"Stalin starved his population!”The Spectre to Memes · 2 months agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squareeating3645@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down2·2 months agoThe report was issued in 1983, Stalin died in 1953. The Ukrainian famine was around 1933. I suspect whoever made the meme is fully aware of these facts.
minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down2·2 months agoHere on .ml we prefer alternate facts.
minus-squareRandomgal@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down4·2 months agoSurely the CIA wouldn’t lie about Russia either, that’d be crazy.
minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 months agoIf it was a lie, you’d think they could do better than “communists are well fed with healthy whole grains”.
minus-squareRandomgal@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·2 months agoI mean… It worked on you, clearly.
minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months agoI get that you’re trying to be snarky, but it doesn’t even make sense to me. Are you trying to say soviet citizens were starving? Or that they had lots of meat fat and sugar? First one isn’t a flex for anyone. Second is propaganda far beyond what even OP was suggesting.
The report was issued in 1983, Stalin died in 1953. The Ukrainian famine was around 1933. I suspect whoever made the meme is fully aware of these facts.
Here on .ml we prefer alternate facts.
Surely the CIA wouldn’t lie about Russia either, that’d be crazy.
If it was a lie, you’d think they could do better than “communists are well fed with healthy whole grains”.
I mean… It worked on you, clearly.
I get that you’re trying to be snarky, but it doesn’t even make sense to me.
Are you trying to say soviet citizens were starving? Or that they had lots of meat fat and sugar?
First one isn’t a flex for anyone. Second is propaganda far beyond what even OP was suggesting.