• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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    16 days ago

    Yeah, I was subject to the same heavy propaganda you were, only difference is that I was mindful enough of it to not let it get me to the point of saying absurd nonsense like what you said.

    Also, you can’t really do the whole “I know I’m also not immune to propaganda” thing when you were just mindlessly regurgitating it to explicitly defend the British state propaganda network.

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      16 days ago

      Okay lets do the litmus test:

      What do you think of tianmen square?

      What do you think of the Uyghurs?

      Did the URSS create famines?

      Edit: i sure riled up a bunch of tankies 😂

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        16 days ago

        What do you think of tianmen square?

        Nice big urban square, lined with beautiful historical buildings.

        What do you think of the Uyghurs?

        You don’t meet them too often, but the ones I met were nice people.

        Did the URSS create famines?

        Famines in the USSR were caused by a multitude of factors - drought and (civil) war being the most prominent. The war was brought to the USSR by outside forces - the whites where financed by the UK and the US, WWII was brought to the USSR by Germany. So famine in the USSR was created by western forces more than anything.

        After 1947 there were no known famines. Since famines were a regular occurrence before we can conclude that the Soviets effectively ended famines in their territory by then.