Kieselguhr

@Kieselguhr@hexbear.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not deny it; a leading Western Stalin scholar did. You simply chose not to educate yourself and instead spewed ignorant propaganda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  But “lesser” evil doesn’t necessarily mean the evil was small.

  You are right, the USA and the UK werethe lesser evil compared to the Nazis, but we should never forget their crimes against humanity, just as we should never forget the flaws of the Soviets, still, the USSr was the lesser evil in the cold war.

  Glad we are clear on that, not sure why you brought up Nazi apologist talking points before like:

  Neither [Nazi Germany or the USSR] was much better than the other.

  It’s important that you visit memorials erected to in the memory of the Victims of Communism, sometimes there are hundreds of names there. I once checked a near one, and decided to google some of the names of the people the evil russkies took to the Gulags. It’s so weird how often they were Axis soldiers accused of heinous war crimes! But Axis soldiers could never! Must have been fabricated!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever heard of Holodomor?

  Have you?

  Just between February and July 1933, [Stalin] signed or countenanced nearly three dozen small allocations of food aid to the countryside, primarily to the North Caucasus and Ukraine, as well as the Kazakh lands (which necessitated sharp reductions in the bread rations for city dwellers, many of whom were put on the brink of starvation). All of these actions were woefully insufficient for avoiding the mass starvation in the countryside caused by his policies, in the face of challenging natural conditions. Still, these actions do not indicate that he was trying to exterminate peasants or ethnic Ukrainians. In the Kazakh autonomous republic, probably between 35 and 40 percent of the titular nation—as compared with 8 to 9 percent of Slavs there—perished from starvation or disease, not because the regime targeted Kazakhs by ethnicity, but because regime policy there consisted of forced denomadization. Similarly, there was no “Ukrainian” famine; the famine was Soviet.

  • Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin published in October 2017 by Penguin Random House This is a very mainstream Stalin biography by Princeton professor.

  Have you heard what the French did to Algerians?

  Atrocities committed against Algerians by the French army during the war included indiscriminate shootings into civilian crowds (such as during the Paris massacre of 1961), execution of civilians when rebel attacks occurred, bombings of villages suspected of helping the FLN,removed, disembowelment of pregnant women, imprisonment without food in small cells (some of which were small enough to impede lying down), throwing detainees from helicopters and into the sea with concrete on their feet, and burying people alive. Torture methods included beatings, mutilations, burning, hanging by the feet or hands, torture by electroshock, waterboarding, sleep deprivation and sexual assaults.

  Now you’ll say this is whataboutism, but if you always bring up an imaginary genocide like the Holodomor when someone talks about the USSR or Russia, but you never mention this actual mass murder when someone talks about France then you are a giant hypocrite.

  The West was worse by their own metrics of bodycount.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Afaik

  Afaik: written abbreviation for as far as I know: used when you believe that something is true, but you are not completely certain. Internet, email and texting conventions. a/s/l.

  See the thing is, you don’t know shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I could go line by line, but the main point still stands: are you lost? Do lemmy devs support the Sudan genocide? Are lemmy devs Taliban?

  You are just terrible at communicating your point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, are you lost? OP said lemmy devs support genocide, & since the largest genocide today is perpetrated by Israel with US support, I was curious what OP meant

  What the fuck does your comment has to do with lemmy or Israel? You seem confused

  Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

  Arab settlements in Iran proliferated after the wars of conquest that destroyed the Sasanian empire.

  The Sassanids ffs? You seem very confused about the relevancy of certain topics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  you act like only theocratic zionists are settlers

  What the fuck are you even talking about? Are you lost?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If not supporting genocide and authoritarianism

  They support Israel?