• yesman@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Thanks Noam Chomsky, but the cold war is over. It’s actually a myth that the Soviets were staunch anti-fascists. They were supporters and allies of Hitler right up until he invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.

    Stalin himself described the British and French as the aggressors and supported Hitler’s “peace plan”. Oh, and their is the whole dividing up Poland thing.

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      18 days ago

      The Soviets were imperialists in action, yes. But in no way can they be reasonably labeled fascists.

      Read a history book and maybe learn some political theory.

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            18 days ago

            wt:fascism

            Noun

            fascism (usually uncountable, plural fascisms)

            .1. Any right-wing, authoritarian, nationalist ideology characterized by centralized, totalitarian governance, strong regimentation of the economy and society, and repression of criticism or opposition. [1922]

            .1. (strictest sense) The ideology and practice of the 20th-century Italian movement from which this name came.

            Coordinate terms: Francoism, Nazism

            .2. (loosely, by extension, derogatory) Any system of strong autocracy or oligarchy usually to the extent of bending and breaking the law, race-baiting, and/or violence against largely unarmed populations.

            .3. (figurative, derogatory) Any extreme reliance on or enforcement of rules and regulations.

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        18 days ago

        I never said they were fascists, just that they were allied and supporters of fascism. Stalin himself wrote an op-ed that argued using military force to destroy Nazism (the stated war goals of France and Briton) was “criminal stupidity”.

        I’m not the one with a reading problem.

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          18 days ago

          Ok so you have a highschool level of understanding of pre-WW2 Soviet Union diplomacy and ignoring the entire history prior and after.

          Great historical analysis skills.

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            17 days ago

            Both times, the person you are responding to gave some arguments, and both times you answer has been to simply insult them. You need to calm down, buddy.