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"red danger"? Like when Cuban intervened in Angola and murdered 10's of thousands or dozens of others horrors around the globe? Hell, just think of how many ex
by merpnderp 7y ago
"red danger"? Like when Cuban intervened in Angola and murdered 10's of thousands or dozens of others horrors around the globe?
Hell, just think of how many excessive deaths have been caused around the globe by the USSR's push of socialism, retarding growth by decades everywhere it won.
You'd have to be a hard core ideologue to not look at the 20th century and think the "red danger" wasn't the most evil thing to ever happen to humanity.
- 9dl 7y agosoviets never pushed socialism Never That word was a mask for totalitarian ideology
- GordonS 7y ago> Hell, just think of how many excessive deaths have been caused around the globe by the USSR's push of socialism, retarding growth by decades everywhere it won. Hell, just think of the violence, misery and excessive deaths that have occurred across Latin America and the Middle East because of the USA's interventions. My point is that just because the USSR did worse, doesn't excuse the USA's actions, which still have an impact to this day.
- McWobbleston 7y agoAre you conveniently forgetting the forceful seizure of an entire continent, displacement of native populations, importing millions of human beings to be used as slaves, colonization and plunder of natural resources across the globe, and deliberate destabilization of regions for profit? You need to check out the rose glasses you're wearing yourself
- dang 7y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into nationalistic or ideological flamewar. Also, please be careful not to cross into personal attack, which is a force multiplier on all things bad here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 7y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into nationalistic or ideological flamewar. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html