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        why are you linking me to obvious us propaganda? lenin oversaw one of the biggest and quickest jumps in quality of life for people in history.

        if you are that intent on rejecting socialism, i don’t know what to tell you. we never properly defeated fascism without it.

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          why are you linking me to obvious us propaganda?

          Why should anybody believe you when you have to use an easily disproven lie the very first thing you said because there is no legitimate way to explain the horrors of what happened in the USSR? The author was a Soviet citizen who never set foot in the USA until after his entire 3 volume series was published. He had collected a lot of material because he was a 7 year victim of Stalin’s Gulag.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn

          [Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn[a][b] ⓘ (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008)[6][7] was a Russian author and Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature “for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature”.[8] His non-fiction work The Gulag Archipelago “amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state” and sold tens of millions of copies.[9]]

          Khrushchev himself personally approved of Solzhenitsyn’s previous book about Stalin’s Gulag. Was the leader of the USSR also peddling “obvious US propaganda”? LMFAO…

          https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-prophet-and-the-commissars-2008-08

          lenin oversaw one of the biggest and quickest jumps in quality of life for people in history.

          The author shows over and over in his book that the roots of Stalinism go right back to Lenin.

          [Solzhenitsyn painstakingly laid the theoretical, legal, and practical origins of the Gulag system at Lenin’s feet, not Stalin’s.]

          How is randomly arresting people in places like train stations and libraries in order to fulfill a police arrest quota from the top dictator a “jump in quality of life” LMFAO! Lenin and his party started the biggest enshitification of any country in history. Who the f*ck would ever want to live in a country where such as things as arrest quotas of random people exist? You would literally be risking your life every time you left your apartment.

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            still quoting literal US propaganda. you have to break free from it if you want any chance of doing anything about your fascism.

            the advances in healthcare education and overall well being in all metrics for people living in that time are a historical fact.

            Stalinism

            stalinism doesn’t even exist lmao, please actually study some history instead of scanning wikipedia for anti-communist sentiment.

            there are plenty of valid criticism you could muster about the soviet union without showing how ignorant you actually are about it.

            but then again, if you and most other us people did, history wouldnt be repeating in your backyard.

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              still quoting literal US propaganda.

              I’m quoting literally Russian sources. You responding that 2+2=5 doesn’t help you at all. Even if there is a rare person who doesn’t already know that 2+2=4, they can easily look it up.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn

              [Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn[a][b] ⓘ (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008)[6][7] was a RUSSIAN author and SOVIET dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature “for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature”.[8] His non-fiction work The Gulag Archipelago “amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state” and sold tens of millions of copies.[9]]

              there are plenty of valid criticism you could muster about the soviet union

              Yes I really don’t get why you chose to make yourself an irrelevant fossil. There is plenty of reasonable critiques of capitalism you could make without defending the USSR which was every bit as bad as Nazi Germany. You defending Lenin and Stalin is going to be rightly viewed exactly the same as another guy coming here and defending Hitler. If you are socialist, the smartest thing you can do is to do everything you can to distance yourself from Lenin and Stalin. The world has already seen what their version of “socialism” looks like and it is absolutely horrible. In order to taken seriously, you would need to make it very clear that your view of socialism has absolutely nothing in common with Lenin and Stalin.

              Solzhenitsyn wrote about 2000 pages on the Lenin/Stalin Gulag.

              https://archive.org/details/TheGulagArchipelago-Threevolumes/The-Gulag-Archipelago__vol1__I-II__Solzhenitsyn/