• Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      And most of it was actually justified. There were a lot of Tsarist sympathizers, nobility, and reactionaries that had to go. Purges in the US are just like…environmentalists saying “Maybe we shouldn’t have lead in the water.”

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        Soviet Union: suppresses the Orthodox clergy for being complicit in a social arrangement under the tsar that amounted to low grade terrorism for the poor

        United States: throws nuns in prison for doing roadblocks to protest nuclear arms