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

• davel@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s a spectre haunting stoly specter

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• AffineConnection@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  *how bad a straw man version of communism is

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  • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well that was my point.

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    • AffineConnection@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know. I seem to be the only one who upvoted you.

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      • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thank you for being charitable. People are very angry on Lemmy this week for some reason.

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• Allero@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  To be fair, having authoritarian government means you’ll absolutely have an oppressive regime at some point.

  If anything, Stalin was the one to cement authoritarianism as the system of power in USSR and make sure it cannot be reverted without massive issues in the form of separatism, civil disobedience, and more.

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