• anaesidemus [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    Putte? Is this some language thing or an infantile baby name a la Putler?

    The roots of the conflict lie in the illegal dissolution of the Soviet Union

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      8 months ago

      Putte is a Swedish name that is commonly used to talk down to a person, calling them small, it is similar to Putin, and I like insulting dickheads with imperial dreams.

      As for the “illegal” dissolution of the Soviet Union, that is a different discussion and happened 22 years before the invasion of Crimea, and can’t be used as an excuse for the invasion in any rational argument based in reality.

          • SSJ2Marx [he/him]@hexbear.net
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            8 months ago

            The Red Army stopped the Holocaust and saved the world from fascism while the western powers were playing with their dicks in Africa. They only invaded France after it became clear that Soviet victory was inevitable in order to prevent Western Europe from being liberated from capitalism.

              • Alaskaball [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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                8 months ago

                I don’t smoke because it’s bad for my lungs.

                That said, I’ll leave you with a quote from Thomas Mann,

                To place Russian communism on the same moral level with Nazi fascism, because both are totalitarian, is, at best, superficial, in the worse case it is fascism. He who insists on this equality may be a democrat; in truth and in his heart, he is already a fascist, and will surely fight fascism with insincerity and appearance, but with complete hatred only communism.

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                8 months ago

                You’re wrong on two key points:

                1. USSR and Nazi Germany only made a nonaggression act after other Western countries did because Western powers purposefully did not invite the USSR. It was a way to try to protect Czechslovakia and Poland since the Westerns were simply giving up Central Europe to the Nazis. You can read more about it here.

                2. The famine in the USSR was not a genocide. That is Nazi propaganda. Read about it here.

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                    8 months ago

                    The USSR entered Poland to protects its borders the day after every official fled and abandoned the country. There was no longer a Poland in any sense. The USSR is the one that liberated and reestablished Poland. How do you not know the basic facts of something you’re talking about holy shit