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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don’t fault the Finns for using help from the nazies

Stopped reading. Fuck off nazi. Not only did Finland take part in the holocaust by exterminating the Roma living in Finland (or forcing them to fight in the nazi suicide squads), but Estonia also handed over Jews to the Gestapo.

If anti-communists could stop admitting that they admire the nazis within 2 or 3 comments of starting their anti-communism you might actually be dangerous and effective at spreading your bullshit but you can never fucking help yourselves.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah yes, perfectly ok to defend the soviets committing a genocide, but the moment a country accepts help from nazies against soviet genocide they become nazies. Weird it doesn't bother you that soviets allied with the nazies and split Europe amongst one another in their treaty. Obviously nazies are fucking despicable but so are soviets and both did genocides. Yea, you can go fuck yourself too red fashist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude, you’re arguing with a fascist-loving teenager. Talk about wasting time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

teenager

I'm late thirties actually.

fascist-loving

I'm begging you to ask some of the surviving jews that were freed from nazi death camps whether they think socialism is the same thing as fascism. They might kick your teeth out though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m late thirties actually.

Then it's just sad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nah mate. You're just out of touch with mainstream politics here in Britain. Jeremy Corbyn defends the USSR. Diane Abbot defended Mao on national tv. John McDonnell's job is "to overthrow capitalism". Or the time John threw Mao's little red book at Osborne. Etc etc.

Mainstream elected MPs. Mainstream opinions.

Yanks are just out of touch with what a political left looks like because they have no left. It makes you think "this person must be a teenager" because the american left simply doesn't exist and you can't imagine what the left over here in europe actually looks like because you have no baseline experience of a left to draw from.

These people are the elected soft left demsocs lmao. But all of this shit would cause americans to start screaming the word tankie or whatever because it's so far outside their experience and education.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No mate because, as I pointed out, they weren't fucking death camps and you're an idiot. You can not cite a single academic source saying that, because none exist.

This has now devolved into you making up genocides that the soviets did not perform in order to justify your support for the nazi genocide of roma performed by finland. Screaming "red fashist" at the end doesn't help.

I'm on the side of objectively good people like Che, Nelson Mandela and Albert Einstein. You're on the side of Hitler and Mengele you absolute tool.

I didn't even make you take the position of defending the nazis, you CHOSE to take this position without prompting.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You saying they are not does not make it so. Soviets were smarter than nazies and didn't keep records as I said so the only numbers are estimated but like the lowest death count you can find is 1.5 miljon but the highest I can find is 8 million. But since most sources agree: prisoners close to death were released and they either died on the way somewhere else or at their destination. The total guesstimates of the total population at their death camps ranges from 14 to 25 million. This also doesn't count the people deported to random villages in Siberia, never to be seen again or the famines they caused by either intentionally or by ridiculous incompetence.

Also note I was defending the Finns not nazies. You can imagine how bad the soviet regime was if nazies seem like a good alternative.

Sure, you're the perfect angel, defending soviet genocides and other atrocities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can imagine how bad the soviet regime was if nazies seem like a good alternative.

I wonder if any of the jews that were freed by the soviets (all of them) would agree. Nah.

The total guesstimates of the total population at their death camps ranges from 14 to 25 million.

Lmao you're pulling figures from the black book of communism now which is widely regarded as a joke. Fucking hilarious.

I also genuinely do not give a fuck about any nazis they killed. Which you are definitely including in your camp deaths as a bad thing. You are literally going to bat for nazis that absolutely deserved execution.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol, the black book of communism has numbers like 100 million so no I wasn't. Did your brain break and you just revert to some npc talking points?

So now you are celebrating soviet atrocities, yea you definitely have the moral high ground here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm definitely celebrating the deaths of nazis. Yes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are both denying and celebrating the victims of soviet gulags. I guess anyone who the soviets hate is a nazi to you and that would not really surprise me, I have talked to red fashists from the US before, you're the first from the UK though.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm getting really bored now. Do you have anything worthwhile to add or just more bullshit?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really. You want over most of the red fash talking point I usually get already. The only empty square on my bingo card is "read theory" but we never went over how authoritarian rule is against everything socialism and Marxism stand for. But yea, I have to rotate my phone just to be able to hit reply to this last one and that too much effort to do twice so I'm done too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why would I tell a person that defends the nazis to read theory? That's something socialists say to other leftists.