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.

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• freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Exactly. Because nobody has ever died under Capitalism…

  Vietnam war, 1.3 million. Korean war, 2.5 to 5 million. US Afghan war, over 240k. Iraq war, 600k to 1 million.

  Or how about the 100,000 pregnancies impacted by thalidomide? The millions poisoned by the use of leaded gasoline? Or the deaths caused by forever chemicals, as companies knowingly poisoned people with Teflon waste?

  Just scratching the surface here…

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• ChadGPT2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Are you saying the facts are wrong?

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  • ActualCommunistLearning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nope, just twisted from the very first sentence saying Stalin was inspired by Trostky, when they were ideologically opposed, just because Stalin followed something he pointed out ("In politics, obtaining power and maintaining power justifies anything”), which Nicolò Machiavelli already pointed out before lol

    Trostky was very vocal about Stalin’s dictatorship being, at best, a degeneration of an actual workers’ state, and got found and executed abroad for it.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This is whitewashing Trotsky

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