No mention of why Romania was in such a bad state. Turns out it was the same playbook as today with the Global South. Romania gets IMF loans mid 70s. And just like John Perkins discusses in his book ‘confessions of an Economic Hitman’, the IMF made the terms of the loan contingent on austerity. Then due to global macroeconomic conditions and interest rate hikes, Romania can’t repay the debts and starts to implode. This of course by design as per IMF/World bank strategy.
The people rise up against AUSTERITY but libs scream about ‘communist dictatorship’.
Zero historical context. Just ‘Communism bad, mmmkay?’. Like the Ukraine proxy war, nothing happened before Russia invaded. No it was ‘totally unprovoked’.
Here’s the background of this lemmy.world propaganda:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_and_the_International_Monetary_Fund
It might just be my lack of knowledge of the smaller European countries, but this is such a niche thing on a community that is technically not supposed to be an explicit anticommunist thing, that I feel this might be fedposting.
It’s a neat trick, post something that confirms previously enforced biases, but not interesting or topical enough that many people will know about it and push back, or actually bother to research it.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that caught a whiff of that Langley, Virginia air. It is too manicured, too evocative, too… Western news media.
Let me try and fix it.
Could be. Could be just a conservative/fascist cold war history goon, lots of people who casually enjoy history quickly gobble anticommunism. But whether its a civilian or a spook, functionally they do they same thing.
The person that posted this image also pasted 4 other images with similar titles. I replied with the link to the IMF loan, explained ‘confessions of an economic hit man’ and he immediately dismissed me as a tankie. This is my shocked face.
Here’s another thing to be shocked about: they made a post about this in the fedi equivalent of tankiejerk.
It got worse after you saw it last:
— @goat@sh.itjust.works
Gentle remind that the US was perfectly content with Nazi Germany for most of the war.
And hired nazis after the war. In fact many prominent business leaders were arguing the US was entering WW2 on the wrong side.
They made multiple Romania anti-communist posts, so you’re probably right
I checked out that comm and it was 100% anti communist spam from that user. So glad we never federated with them.
Yeah, they’re awful
All the history subreddits get taken over by the feds, or by nazis (but I repeat myself)
Even small ones, that explicitly try to call out false ideas about history get taken over by them. r/badhistory used to be really good, then they got flooded with posts talking about how Chinese people’s research on China is automatically “untrustworthy”, and westerners, even RFA, are automatically “trustworthy” regardless of the quality of evidence. The sort of western chauvinism that the subreddit had previously explicitly rejected was now being celebrated because it was talking about China. Long story short, I complained, got banned. This was a couple of years ago now, I imagine most of their posts these days would just be “Look at this bad history take where they say Stalin didn’t kill a million billion people, tankies hate history, slobber zucchini!”