Many people on lemmy.ml deeply respect and admire authoritarian governments and organizations.
Iran, China, North Korea, Soviet Union…
The West has many flaws. But our flaws are nothing compared to these guys.
Iran hangs homosexuals. Iran shot 30,000 people in less than than 2 weeks. The Soviet Union had to build a fucking Iron wall to prevent people from escaping. The Soviets lied about the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. China censors the internet. China wants to eliminate Islam. North Korea is a totalitarian hellscape. Watching anime is a crime.
Why is lemmy.ml so fascinated with authoritarians?
It was only the biggest fucking country in the world, but sure I’m sure everyone in Siberia and Chechnya and Ukraine and all the other regions absolutely loved being subjected to the Muscovite dictatorship. Totally not imperialism /s
biggest being doesnt necessarily implies imperialism. You have no proof to back up people who lived in USSR didnt support it.
Yeah, I’m sure they just acquired all that land by non-imperial means /s
Arf arf arf.
Go talk to anyone in the Baltics, Ukraine, Chechnya, or Siberia.
There’s a reason people throughout the former soviet bloc celebrated when it fell.
They were acquired by imperial russia, not soviet union. People of those places largely supported the bolsheviks
I dont care about opinion of people who didnt live in the USSR, they are heavily propagandized.