#but if you start to claim that the ukrainian famine is a capitalist propaganda

[memento-mariii]

Look I hate late-stage capitalism as much as the next person, but genuinely baffled by the tiny subset of people on this site who seem to think Stalinist USSR was some kind of a communist paradise.

#like it was still a genocidal totalitarian dictatorship??? #if you ask whether the soviets were the nazis were better #then yeah I guess the soviets were marginally better #because at least they didn't attempt to wipe out an entire people for the sake of wiping out an entire people #but like #that's not a very high bar to pass????? #the bar is so low that it's underground????? #like I hate how fascists use 'well the communists were evil too!' as a dogwhistle I really do #but if you start to claim that the ukrainian famine is a capitalist propaganda #I'm sorry but you officially have brainrot #literally the same vibe as the people who said that the hong kong protests were american propaganda #like you can claim to be a leftist all you want #but if you can turn a blind spot to human rights violations #I don't trust you as a leftist at all #/rant #do not reblog #like. #you shouldn't care about human rights because it's a leftist talking point #you should be a leftist *BECAUSE* you care about human rights #that means calling out other self-proclaimed 'leftists' when they're causing harm #esp. when they're doing it on a governmental basis