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Liberals are upset that Russia continues to exist as a single unified state, and not a balkanized conglomeration that can be more easily manipulated and controlled.

Yeah that's not true at all and also the US absolutely put the final nail in the coffin with the 1996 Russian election. That's the one where the Russian Communist Party was about to get voted back into power, so it's commonly understood that western powers meddled in that election to get Boris Yeltsin as president. The US also got Russia to rewrite its constitution to expand the position of president, and then the US handpicked Putin

"Could it be that leftism is increasingly popular due to the excesses and contradictions of capital becoming exceedingly clear? No, it must be because people are dumb"

Liberals subscribe to "authoritarian" theory, where nazism and communism are the same because they are "authoritarian". They don't understand class analysis because they don't believe classes exist, and they deny that bourgeois "democracy" is authoritarian.

But they both have leaders that sometimes tell other people what to do, and their militaries look scary because they wear different outfits than our military so that makes them the same

They're doing a "leftist" version of the "international community" line that neolibs have, where by "most communists" they just mean the wretched little scrotums in NATO countries that self-identify as leftists.

Something these breadtube cranks seemingly can't grasp is that the majority of actual leftists (whatever flavor, but it seems to me like most are either ML or Maoist) live outside of North America and Europe. Or maybe they just dismiss them all as tankies brainwashed by the seductive allure of dark and evil authoritarianism, lookin' all hot and domineering and shit, whispering all seductively from the shadows "use the big spoon, baybee".

The group you're thinking of calls themselves tankies.

Any obviously online forum for "younger" people just strikes as a place for older pervs and creeps to come in and plant their flags.

iirc there was a thing on reddit a while ago where the mods of a sub called something like r/internetdrama or subredditdrama or something did an expose on how a load of the users and the mods of those zoomer subs were actually adults pretending to be teenagers so it wouldnt be to surprising

And now Allende was the bad guy for... allowing what Pinochet did to happen?

Poland has become a bastion of European reactionary ideology for a bunch of reasons. Most of it happened deliberately by a coalition of capitalists who ran a color revolution and a fake, pro-west labor union (called solidarity of all things. And one of those capitalists who wrecked everything was George Soros of all people. Despite his reputation among right wing conspiracy idiots, he's been throwing money at anti-communist causes his whole life. It's a genuine tragedy.

Pro-western propaganda has relativised the horrors of fascism and made Poles of all people believe that living in a socialist country was just as bad as living under the Nazis' genocidal occupation regime.

This Nazi apologia was grafted unto a substrate of butthurt Polish nationalism that existed well before the Soviet Union and is rooted in Poland's history of first being a major kingdom, then being carved up by neighbouring empires.

They want to fuck lenin

It means Solidarnosk won and solidarity lost.

This call for volcel police.

DAE think people who want to "purify" the world and install ancapistan as a permanent, worldwide government are the same as the people who want to help everyone?

A classic

similar to the current hit "guy who hates Jews accusing anti-Israel protesters of hating Jews"

The estimated rate of child trafficking multiplied ~fourfold and there were excess deaths comparable to the Great Famine despite the much more highly-developed infrastructure

I’m old enough to remember the 90s. It’s really gross but (cw: human trafficking?)

Also, take a look at any measure of economic output in the eastern bloc from the 80s through the present. In the 90s there’s this massive dip that only gets to the ~1990 level in recent years. Like in Russia, you could take where the economy was in 1990 and assume very mediocre growth, and they would be better off now had the USSR stuck around just by the numbers (and that’s before considering how unequal the pie is split now vs how things were under communism). Obviously some countries like Czechia and the Baltics fare better, but they’ve been plugged into the imperial core for nearly 30 years now.

That's the pattern for reddit's username suggestion for new accounts.