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I'm not obsessed with Stalin. I'm also not a Holocaust denier. You really seem keen on saying inflammatory things about me without any preceding context.

I will observe that I think Stalin was an awful person who tarnished the reputation of socialism for a century. I don't have anything against socialist, being one myself.

I have a beef with apologist for failed communist states like the soviet onion. I feel they deeply misrepresent socialism.

You did not addressed a single point lol you're a broken disc, say the same thing all the time
I will observe that I think Stalin was an awful person who tarnished the reputation of socialism for a century. I don’t have anything against socialist, being one myself.
this is an american/european thing, not a rest of the world thing. i am not an american, i live elsewhere right now and i am also trans. you simply have been propagandized, and you believe it because you are a product of your environment.
you are a holocaust denier if you deny that communists fought fascism and instead supported nazism.
- It's a semantic argument, then. To me a fascist is a Donald Trump. To me, Facisim is a broad set of characteristics which can be attributed to people outside of the context of Nazi Germany. For example, I might call an ancient emperor a fascist.
  Facisim to you is a political movement linked only to the Nazis and thier allies.
  That's not unfair. It's a different definition of the word.
  
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  Either you have a misunderstanding of what a tankie is in common vernacular, or I do.
  My definition of a tankie is as follows: A "tankie" is a term that originated in British politics, referring to individuals who unconditionally supported actions of the Soviet Union, including the use of military force to suppress dissent. Today, it's often used more broadly to describe those who uncritically support or defend perceived socialist or communist authoritarian regimes, sometimes even in the face of human rights abuses. The term is typically used pejoratively within leftist circles.
  I don't believe a communist is necessarily a tankie, but a tankie would call themselves a communist.
  Personally, as an American, I would never fly an American flag. To me, it represents the violence of the state, the genocide of the indigenous people, and capitalism.
  I believe that the Soviet union, as well as some modern communist states, have largely failed to represent the Marxist vision, and I am extremely critical of people who are embrace the theater of certain communist states.
  
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  Interesting. I don't want to put a burden on you, but you might want to consider that Western people who use the pejorative "tankie" might not be ideologically opposed to you in any particular way, and if you were to instead reply first with what you did just now they might even agree with you.
  I got really triggered when you said I was a Holocaust denier. Maybe you felt the same way with me comparing Stalin with hitler and Andrew Jackson.
  I'm sorry if I made you feel attacked or uncomfortable as a Trans individual. While I personally don't identify as a communist, I have a strong empathy for Marxist. I can only imagine the fear and anxiety you must feel at home, and I hope that you and your allies succeed in building a better world for yourselves.
  
  I appreciate that we began to understand each other. It might be that I don't talk with western socialists enough, I use original definitions for everything.
  
  Likewise, I don't speak to many people outside of the US.
  I think you'll find that westerners tend to be more loose with thier definitions. We adopt analogies and political shorthands very quickly.
  Additionally, many "progressive" Americans like me are extremely critical of nationalism. Capitalist and conversation Christian propaganda is everywhere here, and it cultivates a short of hyper sensitively to certain subjects. I'm very critical of states, especially socially conservative or militaristic ones.
  In your situation, supporting a communist party might be your best choice, just like mine is voting for capitalist Democrats (over Republicans).
  I hope you make more Western friends. You'll surely teach them new things and vice versa.
  I like you and I respect you. I need to go to sleep (it's 1:15am here). Take care!
  
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  We can very obviously see how anti-communist revolution in Hungary is going for Hungarian trans people right now.
  To blame "anti-communist revolution" for the decline of LGBT-rights in hungary when much of the anti-LGBT legislation came about near 20-years after Hungary became a democracy and during when the Hungarian Socialist Party, the successor of the Communist Party, was still the largest force in Hungarian politics is disingenuous.
  I would like to point out that the word tankie was used to refer to people that specifically supported the Hungarian communists request for military aid against revolution in Hungary. (...) So in the original sense of the word, I am a tankie.
  ...it's nice that you're honest about being anti-democratic and that you have no qualms about calling yourself tankie in that context. Are you a "little green man" as well?
  
  I'm not a man, and its very obvious that I am not a man given pronouns in bio and my username.
  
  Your gender identity has no bearing on the discussion and if you can't process what asking you if you're a "little green man" means then you're really a lost soul, geesh.

Your historical notes are technically correct, and Stalin did even attempt to reach a pact with France to limit the potential expansion of Nazi Germany. However, once those initiatives failed, Stalin had no issue about pacting with Hitler instead to invade third countries together, which highlights how Stalin's first priority was improving his geopolitical position, rather than an ideological opposition to nazism.

This is myopic. Stalin invaded Poland because it refused to cooperate with the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany. The Nazis and USSR weren't just raiding North Africa cooperatively, it was a geographical necessity to the Soviets attacking Nazi Germany that they be able to have their military on Germany's border!
How the hell are the Soviets supposed to attack Nazi Germany if Poland says the Soviets aren't welcome on its land?
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Do you deny the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact and the illegal attack on Poland by the Soviet union under its leader Josef Stalin?

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- No why should I ? A non aggression pact is not the same than occupying another country. The Jews which were deported to other parts of the Union were in deed saved from the Nazis.
  
  I would support any country occupying a country if it saved hundreds of thousands of lives from death by fascism, without question. If you do not, you are evil.
  
  So what about the Soviet Union doing ethnic cleansings in the parts of Poland they conquered? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_repressions_of_Polish_citizens_(1939%E2%80%931946)
  
  from what i am reading, these are polish military officer's bodies. poland's military was known for pogroms against jews during the nazi occupation, and that was a sentence of death in the soviet union. as for the other claims, many civilian populations, including many millions of russians, were moved beyond the urals in order to evade firebombing campaigns. some of these groups stayed, but many left after the war.
  sexual crimes happen in war and people who commit them should be killed.
  
  Oh so it's fine that the Soviet Union displaced their government and murdered anyone who opposed them?
  
  it is fine to save hundreds of thousands of lives from firebombing, yes. war is never pretty and you must protect civilians by moving them away from the ever-advancing front line.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Soviet_Union
  
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  Ethnic cleansing is when you kill military officers, no I'm not just trying to twist things into "genocide" to score cheap political points
  
  Not when it kills millions through starvation --> holodomor
  
  we discussed that elsewhere
  
  https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/11/21/in-search-of-a-soviet-holocaust/
  
  The only evil person here is you. How can you not only defend but celebrate a regime that during its reign of terror during the occupation of Poland put over 500-thousand Poles in prison, committed the Katyn Massacre, deported 1.7-million Poles to Siberia, raped over a 100-thousand women, and murdered over 150-thousand additonal Poles in cold blood, and then robbed Poland of the independence it had achieved after WW1, after 200-years of attempted cultural genocide by the Russian Empire?
  I am half-Polish, my father was born in Communist Poland - tell me how your crackhead ideology justifies your abhorrent views. Tell me how the Soviets rounding up innocent Poles and murdering them in cold blood, like happened to the families and friends of my grandparents, is to be celebrated as the Soviets "saving" anyone; how subjugating the Polish people and state for the next 40-years was something good.
  You're simply a disgusting PoS, a certified A-grade fucking tankie.
  
  jeez, i wish you were deported to siberia, youre fucking dumb and should be breaking rocks with your forehead
  also werent you that pedophile on lemmy.ml that everyone was laughing at
  
  It's very clear you're unhinged. Bye.
  
  It's clear she like to pick fights but maybe you could put that in a way that isn't disparaging to people with mental illnesses?
  
  Done?
  
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