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> It seems like the US has become what the USSR was The USSR was the thing that executed my great grand parents for being liberals (he was a doctor) when they
by xxxstnhtsnh 7y ago
> It seems like the US has become what the USSR was
The USSR was the thing that executed my great grand parents for being liberals (he was a doctor) when they invaded Budapest.
- kragen 7y agoThe US and USSR both invaded many countries and executed many hundreds of thousands of people during the Cold War, although in general the USSR had a somewhat poorer human rights record, even in countries they invaded. But I wasn't talking about what the US was during the Cold War. I was talking about new US policies. The invasion of Hungary was in 1956, 39 years after the Russian Revolution. What do you think the US will be doing 39 years after, to take a convenient date, November 2016? That would be 2055. Do you really doubt that they will hesitate to commit genocide after two generations of propaganda, censorship, and repression designed to Make America Great Again? If someone expressed a concern in 1917 or 1920 that the Communists had become what the czarist autocracy was, would you think it reasonable to respond with a catalogue of czarist crimes that the Communists had not yet had time to match?