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Imagine comparing a killer to Stalin /s
The Department of Canadian Heritage was just informed that over half of the 550 names engraved on its “Memorial to the Victims of Communism” in Ottawa are Nazis or have links to fascist groups.
CEOs killing thousands for profits
Nazis killing millions for settler colonialism
ummm violence is bad mmmkay
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“We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_genocide_theory
Scholars have criticized the double genocide theory as a form of Holocaust trivialization.
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According to American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Kristen Ghodsee, efforts to institutionalize the “double genocide thesis”, or the moral equivalence between the Nazi Holocaust (race murder) and the victims of communism (class murder), in particular the push at the beginning of the 2007–2008 financial crisis for commemoration of the latter in Europe, can be seen as the response by economic and political elites to fears of a leftist resurgence in the face of devastated economies and extreme social inequalities in both the Eastern and Western worlds as the result of the excesses of neoliberal capitalism. She says that any discussion of the achievements by Communist states, including literacy, education, women’s rights, and social security is usually silenced, and any discourse on the subject of communism is focused almost exclusively on Joseph Stalin’s crimes and the “double genocide thesis”, an intellectual paradigm summed up as such: “1) any move towards redistribution and away from a completely free market is seen as communist; 2) anything communist inevitably leads to class murder; and 3) class murder is the moral equivalent of the Holocaust.” By linking all leftist and socialist ideals to the excesses of Stalinism, Ghodsee posits that the elites hope to discredit and marginalize all political ideologies that could “threaten the primacy of private property and free markets”.
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So you deleted my post for calling out Stalin a Monster? Really? Even the Communist Party admited it (in their weird propagandaishy way) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Stalinization
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy. — J. Stalin
Yeah sure. Its all fake. All the witnesses, who got their memories recorded by “Memorial” are payed agent by the captilastic propaganda. And all the bodies in the massgraves are droped there by the USA to make Stalin look bad. You sure can drop some shady “sources” to proof this insanity. If you want to I can proof Hitlera innocence the same way. Or that repitles are living in the Earthcore.
Im from Europe. I met a couple of people who witnessed his mess. Or had to endure unthinkable Cruilties.
Stalin is a Monster. Not the worst, but still a Monster
According to American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Kristen Ghodsee, efforts to institutionalize the “double genocide thesis”, or the moral equivalence between the Nazi Holocaust (race murder) and the victims of communism (class murder), in particular the push at the beginning of the 2007–2008 financial crisis for commemoration of the latter in Europe, can be seen as the response by economic and political elites to fears of a leftist resurgence in the face of devastated economies and extreme social inequalities in both the Eastern and Western worlds as the result of the excesses of neoliberal capitalism. She says that any discussion of the achievements by Communist states, including literacy, education, women’s rights, and social security is usually silenced, and any discourse on the subject of communism is focused almost exclusively on Joseph Stalin’s crimes and the “double genocide thesis”, an intellectual paradigm summed up as such: “1) any move towards redistribution and away from a completely free market is seen as communist; 2) anything communist inevitably leads to class murder; and 3) class murder is the moral equivalent of the Holocaust.” By linking all leftist and socialist ideals to the excesses of Stalinism, Ghodsee posits that the elites hope to discredit and marginalize all political ideologies that could “threaten the primacy of private property and free markets”.
Even in Stalin’s time there was collective leadership. The Western idea of a dictator within the Communist setup is exaggerated. Misunderstandings on that subject are caused by a lack of comprehension of the real nature and organization of the Communist’s power structure. Stalin, although holding wide powers, was merely captain of a team
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf
I assume you are something between LateTeenage to mid 20s, probably grown up in the USA? You are unsecurce about all the fascist-stuff happing right now and the regular civil resistance is … weak? So you take the extremistic way. Killing people, even the innocent, is a necessary evil. Human rights, democratic principles are a just burden you dont want to keep up. I can fully understand that you look for a simple solution in troublesometimes. And as a young(?) person its your right to have weird ideas about the world. And as long we have free media, you can cultivate your ideas, but you can move on to other conclusions and revidate you points of view. Its your own path. … I really hope for you, that you never have to endure the cruelties and terror of an arbitrary, authocratic regime like the stalinism.
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