Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Again with USA as the example, no other democracy had slaves like USA did.
  On the other hand comparable stories to Stalin can be found in multiple autocratic systems.
  Where USA is the exception as in exceptionally bad among democracies, what Stain did is commonplace among autocracies.

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  • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    like the usa did

    laughs in dutch.

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If you are referring to South Africa you are a moron.
      Because South Africa was very much an authoritarian leadership, and ruled by a white minority by force.
      WTF is that reference supposed to show that does anything but support democracy?

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      • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        a place can be both authoritarian and capitalist…

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah. The US definitely was horrifically evil long after other Global North countries had decided to chill but we were far from the only people running on the backs of the Global South.

      In a lot of ways, the US was late to colonialism and took it WAY too far and commit atrocities for it. The USSR/Stalin was late to (there is probably a better term for it but I can’t remember it) peasant revolutions and took it WAY too far and commit atrocities for it… and then ended up being a global power that extended said reign of terror to anyone sharing a border with them.

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      • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        the US is CURRENTLY funding a genocide. What’s stalin been up to lately?

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