Socialism_Everyday

What in my comments makes you think I like one bit the nationalist Russian brand of fascism going on nowadays in Moscow? It's the polar opposite of everything the Soviets fought and died for. How about you engage with the content of my comments instead of labelling me and doing a thought-terminating cliche? You still haven't answered to how returning the city of Lviv to Ukraine and the city of Vilnius to Lithuania is an act of imperialism.

Russian maps from 2015 show Crimea to be Russian, do you agree it's a Russian city? My entire point is that Lviv, one of the most important cities in Ukraine, was invaded by Poland in 1919. Soviets "invading" it in 1939 effectively meant returning it to Ukraine.

Hitler famously didn't pull Germany out of poverty, that's just Nazi propaganda. He literally starved his people to buy weapons for genocide. Fascists famously don't improve the living conditions of the working class, that's what communists do, unsurprisingly.

You also didn't mention anything about the policy of China itself, you just generally pointed to a Wikipedia article fully based on western news outlets (I wonder what motives western capitalist outlets would have to lie about socialist China?) and speak of anti-humanitarian traits.

And yes, I'm a westerner. I'm a Spaniard communist who yesterday was gluing signs on the streets of Madrid with my org calling for the Student Strike organized for the 2nd of October, and for the mass protest of the 4th of October calling for a general strike to force the government to cut ties with Israel. You're attacking the wrong enemy here, there's no "tankie threat" in Europe, the enemies are the far right and I'm on the right side of things. How about you worry about stopping fascism in your own country and system? China doesn't have a blossoming fascist party.

Believe it or not, your average far-right European voter isn't concerned with Ukraine and doesn't admire the invasion, they're mostly racist misogynist islamophobes who have been progressively impoverished by every party in the political spectrum of their country for a decade and a half in a row.

Westerners hate China and hate Muslims, but for some reason care so much about Chinese Muslims. Notice how even the Wikipedia article title got changed from "Genocide" to "Persecution", I wonder why that is.

You, as a westerner of a country actively supporting actual genocide in Palestine, the one you can actually go online TODAY and watch videos of how many kids got bombed yesterday, are criticising the Chinese government for a harsh reeducation campaign in a province that hosted radical Islamist groups carrying out terror attacks in China which killed hundreds of people. Your fucking homeland of Canada (assuming from your instance) has all but eliminated the native populations of the region, and you have the courage of crying "TaNkIe" because I think that a country that uplifted 1/10th the world population from poverty in 30 years is admirable in that regard.

"Holodomor" is just a scary word to refer to the 1931-1933 Soviet famine. Do you also use special scary words to describe capitalist-driven famines such as the Bengal Famine that the British created in India, or is it a privilege only reserved for the last serious non-war-made famine in the USSR?

Famines, believe it or not, were commonplace in preindustrial Russian Empire, which had a terribly low life expectancy. Between 1917 (Bolshevik revolution) and 1941 (Soviet Union entering WW2) life expectancy rose from 30 years to about 41. The Socialist project in Eastern Europe made some mistakes, such as errors in the collectivization of 1929-1934 during the first 5-year plan that led to unexpected sabotage and failed crops, but ultimately these mistakes were more than compensated for through social policy, universal healthcare and education, and probably most importantly, enabling the industrialization of the Soviet Union that allowed for the mechanization of agriculture and the end of famines (which by itself saved millions of lives) and the win against the Nazis 10 years afterwards (which by itself saved tens of millions of lives from the planned genocide against the slavic peoples by the Nazis according to the Generalplan Ost. The Soviet project saved tens if not millions of lives from hunger, disease, exploitation, and worst of all, colonisation and extermination by Nazis.

I'm a Spaniard who proudly participated in the sabotage of La Vuelta Ciclista in favour of Palestine just over a week ago with my communist organization, and who yesterday was glueing signs in Madrid calling for the Student Strike on the 2nd of October and the general protest on the 4th of October pushing for a general strike against genocide. You're attacking the wrong people here, the enemies are European fascists, not European communists.

Unfortunately, both of them suffered the illegal and antidemocratic dissolution of the USSR, which led to the greatest humanitarian crisis and loss of life in Europe since WW2, with scholars such as Paul Cockshott estimating the deaths in more than 5 million after demographic analysis of the region, with Ukraine being hit especially hard due to becoming the poorest country in Europe after the dismantling of its entire economy in the 90s. Unemployment, depression, alcoholism, homelessness, drug addiction, violent crime, mental health problems and even hunger and preventable disease turned the 90s and early 2000s into some of the worst that Europe has seen in more than half a century, and I therefore condemn the capitalist government of both countries extensively for all the damage they're doing to their own populations.

The Soviet Union invaded the famously Polish cities of looks map... Lviv (6th largest city in modern Ukraine), Pinsk (10th largest city in modern Belarus) and Vilnius (capital of Lithuania)? Most of the territories invaded by the Soviets in "Poland" were actually Ukrainian, Belarusian and Lithuanian territories that had been invaded by Poland in their 1919 expansionist war against Ukraine. Or are you a Ukrainophobe saying that Lviv belongs to Poland?

For reference: Poland in 1938

And a map of the territories the Soviets invaded:

The USSR had a blatant disregard for the lives of their own people before WW2, which explains why life expectancy looks at chart ...increased from 30ish years old to 40+?

Yeah, you're actually right. Sorry for being a smug ass, I guess I'm sensitive about this part of history which is heavily misunderstood and propagandized against socialists like me, but you're right and I'll try to be more chill about it. Thanks for the chat

Most voted party is still far-right, at least Italians just organized a general strike against genocide in Palestine.

"Tankie is when you support the Spanish republicans in their antifascist struggles" has to be the dumbest take ngl. You could just say you can't provide any examples because history isn't on your side.