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

• roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Then why bring communism into a critique of a dictator concerning his methods of control.

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  • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    because it’s Stalin, former leader of the USSR…
    commonly used as an example of why communism is so bad.
    you’re really confused about that?

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    • roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And yet, here this person is, not incorrectly using Stalin to say communism is bad. He is criticizing Stalin on his merits, or lack thereof, and not using one person to disparage communism.

      You are one tying Stalin’s crimes to communism.

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      • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Stalin tied himself to communism as much as possible, all critics of communism tie Stalin to communism as much as possible.
        think reeeeeLly hard about how that might be a relevant point to be had.
        also lemmy is chock full of tankies tying stalin to communism but pretending like he was super good and all of the bad things he did were western propaganda

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      • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        no i’m not, i also don’t care about arguing with someone this dense

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