Omniraptor [they/them]

That sounds based actually, we should do this to our own oligarchs next

I wouldn’t mind if we had ru or ukr language communities on here either.

Various propagandists have already blamed Ukraine, before the cops even cleared the building and did a body count nevermind apprehending any suspects. Sickening stuff tbh

https://t.me/rabkor/15781

It’s a meme (in Russian ‘leftist’ social media) quote from a speech by Putin in Feb 22 right before he invaded. About how Ukraine is a fake country created by the foolish utopian Bolsheviks who used declarations of self determination as empty slogans to gain initial support. And then Stalin built a normal centralized state but didn’t bother changing the utopian “confederative” wording.

So now Putin is forced to fix Stalin’s mistake, put Ukraine through decommunisation and go back (presumably to how it was in the Russian empire) before all this communist nonsense.

Here’s the full speech if you’re interested https://web.archive.org/web/20220224052445/http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67828

Вы хотели декоммунизации? Штош нас это вполне устраивает

Judging from how some people talk about ai idk if most people even leftists would like to live in the culture. But yeah, the books turned me into a transgender communist so I’d recommend them based on that

Stalin and giving a shit about the plight of oppressed ethnic minorities, name a more iconic duo

seriously tho he was more than willing to throw them under the bus when it served a purpose, I don’t buy that he was simply overcome by pity or smth. We had working relationships with the various regional nationalists and (half assedly) supported them all the way up to 1947

Nah the about face was a complete shot in the foot, massively hurt the Soviets’ relations with other communist parties in the region- iirc the party line had been support for arab resistance even since the Balfour declaration. Lenin and Trotsky were both strongly anti Zionist and condemned it for the ethno nationalism that it is.

But Stalin reversed course on it and I honestly don’t understand why. The dude was supposedly smart/good at geopolitics how did he not see that it was an imperial project from the start.

It’s the medium not the article. You can post your articles on GitHub gists or something just don’t use that website

Yeah this would be much cooler than just rejecting the request

Yeah iirc it’s been confirmed that the brainwashing/muzzling don’t extend as much to other languages. It’s a bit easier to get it to talk about spicy topics in Russian in my experience

Well, first one then the other. The IPO is the inflection point

I’m russian and this is exactly the attitude I see from people there too. Not even cynicism, but abject despair dressing itself up as cynicism. Idk what to do… best I can think of is you gotta find crumbs of positivity from somewhere to not become a doomer