"During the 1930s, many communists and socialists from Germany and Austria sought refuge from the Nazis in the USSR. But in a shocking betrayal, the Soviet secret police handed over hundreds of them to Hitler’s Gestapo… https://jacobinmag.com/2021/08/hitler-stalin-pact-nazis-communist-deportation-soviet
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13 upvotes 12 downvotes and someone complaining in /c/anarchism lol
there are legit reason people don’t like tankies, because they hijack communism and betray “their” comrades.
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Feel free to call them historical ignorants,
My issue is not that they are historical ignorant, my issue their continuation of gaslighting and hijacking anarchist/communist movements to place themselves at the lead, the vanguard who knows “the truth”, who knows whats “best” for me and others, those that read such history and will first come up with some justification for the genocides conducted under the USSR. Justifying historical genocides, will result in justifying contemporary genocides.
Question: Whenever criticism against authoritarian communists is presented, why do you always come along as someone to defend them?
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I am not defending them
that’s all you do here. not really anything more.
nearly 100 year old examples and thus drawing false analogies.
what’s false analogies? Contemporary tankies justify most genocides done under the USSR.
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because they can easily rationalize away some age old stuff.
That’s what they always do. It is called gaslighting. Felix, dev of lemmy, justified Assad and how he cracked down something that started as a simple protest and eventually resulted in mass murder. They will reply with very long threads why [something about CIA] [something about shit libs] [something about the enemy of my enemy is my friend] [something about anti-ameria and justifying any other imperium that takes position against US] and because of that it was necessary.
Nothing more then gaslighting that follows all the time the same patterns.
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ok: justifying genocides done by the USSR.
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The justification of these genocides is nothing of the past, it happens in this moment. It creates a culture that will legitimize upcoming genocides. And tankies do this. The damage those genocide brought to society is also nothing that is something of the past, it is still present, and so is it important to speak about history and how it relates to the here and now.
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None of these people are alive anymore
“If a Nazi justifies the holocaust, that’s not an issue, because those who conducted the holocaust are dead”
nope! that’s not how that works.
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explain what you mean, if what I said doesn’t represent you correct.
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ok, so it doesn’t make sense to me, except that you justify the justification of genocide. “cool”