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[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 52 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Love the downvotes on this. Perfect propaganda so well funded. But now it's not commies it's 'tankies'

[–] kig_v2@lemmygrad.ml 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Communism is okay, as long as its the purely theoretical version of it that suburban Westerners invent in their mind

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 1 year ago

[Cuba has been prohibited from entering the chat]

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago

A Trotskyist has since entered the comments to prove your point

[–] Farvana@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I downvoted because it's a bad meme, not a bad message

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[–] AlfredoBonannoFofana@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (37 children)

Turned an imperialist monarchy where the majority of the population were illiterate into being the first nation of humans in space and defeating the Nazis within a few decades?

Turning a country fresh from a century of humiliation in to the world's largest economy by purchasing power parity and virtually eliminating poverty?

Seems like it works to me

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[–] chay@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 1 year ago

I wanted to cross-post this to lemmy.ml's memes community, but you did that already. The libs are coming in, beautiful lmao.

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

[–] ladananton450@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Let's forget that the USSR was considered a superpower at some point

[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the West's fault that Mao and Stalin, et al killed millions.

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