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Why do you think it was terrible?
by myst 8y ago
Why do you think it was terrible?
- petepete 8y agoAside from the millions of deaths, you mean?
- FranzFerdiNaN 8y agoCan’t say it’s much more than the US caused, when you count slavery, the extermination of native people, CIA backed coups, the prison complex and capitalism among others. But if the US does it it’s called “bringing freedom and democracy”, so those deaths dont seem to count.
- happyrock 8y agoYou people have really terrible arguments.
- swebs 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB
- d0mine 8y agoHow is it terrible compared to other similar in scale countries?
- PhasmaFelis 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
- d0mine 8y agoI don't get the logic: if you do it, you are a terrible person. If we do it, we are fighting for freedom or some such. If you use the term "whataboutism", you are either ignorant or a shill.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoIt's terrible no matter who does it. You tried to claim that it was less terrible for the USSR to do it, because other countries did it too.
- d0mine 8y agoWorse than no justice is only selective justice: one set of rules for us vs. another set of rules for them
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoTrue, but no justice is still pretty bad, and you're advocating for it vigorously.
- PeterisP 8y agoIf we disregard the geopolitics and foreign interventions, cold war UK, France or USA was a decent regime to its own people. If we disregard the geopolitics and foreign interventions, cold war USSR was a horrible regime against its own people. There are all kinds of horrible things done by those regimes to their own people as well, but they aren't comparable in scale.
- swebs 8y agoThe Soviet regime was so terrible that they had to build a wall to keep people in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall
- partiallypro 8y agoMaybe the fact that it murdered more people than Hitler's Reich?
- darkhorn 8y agoIn Bulgaria out of 8 million peple between 100000 and 300000 people were killed during the communist regime.
- PeterisP 8y agoThe other similar in scale countries have performed much less atrocities against their own population. China has a bit larger total numbers, but they're not similar in scale.
- duxup 8y agoHistory? I'm kinda lost on the question here.
- mLuby 8y agoJust to add a different kind of answer from atrocities (which most major countries have committed), the USSR was terrible because it collapsed and exists no longer.