The DM was a DM asking us to change our no tankies policy and remove the fuck tankies banner as it was apparently upsetting hexbear users. Apparently tankies view the word tankie as a form of slur. The admin wants us to ally as a form of “left solidarity”

    • Moss@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
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      Stalin literally killed Jews and gay people The only reason why they allied with us was because they viewed Germany as a bigger threat

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      Stalin killed jews as well stop acting like Stalin is some champion of the people he’s just as much a monster as Hitler

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        he’s just as much a monster as Hitler

        this is a literal nazi talking point. like literal nazi kind of nazi, not like neo-nazi, as in the actual members of the actual nazi party made up this shit that you are now repeating.

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      In post WW2 Poland (as late as 1950 I think) there were around 200 work camps, organized by the new ‘Communist’ government, and some organized by the red army or/and NKVD. At least around 75 thousand people have died in them, most of them Germans, but a non marginal amount of them were Ukrainians, Poles and Lemkos. Not the same scale as the holocaust, no death camps, but it did happen.

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        And that’s the type of “communism” that tankies like. Brutal and authoritarian. Unfortunately, a lot of countries seem to go that way.