Repost of post I made on Genzedong. Actual handout I recieved during history class. And they say DPRK citizens are the ones hopelessly brainwashed.

  • AverageUlyanovFan
    31·
    2 years ago

    Lmao:

    • Allies entered Berlin, yeah I wonder which armies, probably the US?
    • There was no Depression in USSR unless you count mourning for Lenin
    • There was only one Great Purge, 2.6-2.8M, 600-800k people sentenced to death.
    • Holodomor is a conspiracy theory
    • There were no GulagS

    Okay, Great Purge is a great example of why giving a lot of power to groups with not much oversight to speed up the trials enabling death sentences is not a great idea, and there’s no hiding from it, but inflating numbers to over 25M you get from Black Book of Communism to make purges seems worse than Holocaust carries a very clear class interest there.

    I do like, however, how it says “Ends democracy in Germany/Italy”. One might simply gloss over it, but the (correct) logical implication is that there was democracy before which is how those guys came to power. Hmm…

      • AverageUlyanovFan
        4·
        2 years ago

        I’ve seen BBC post Western Ukraine newspaper excerpts about famine and saying that it’s them talking about Soviet Ukraine, so they probably shit themselves after posting realistic numbers

      • AverageUlyanovFan
        91·
        2 years ago

        No gulagS. Just one, the acronym GULag itself means “chief administration of camps”. There were many camps and prisons under control of that one GULag, but that’s not really that different from most countries. Colloquially word “gulag” came to mean “any soviet camp or prison” and it sounds more alien for propaganda purposes but the list here pretends to be serious so arguably such use isn’t appropriate