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    • QueerCommie
      13•1 year ago

      I’m not sure the exact origin, either trotskyists who obviously didn’t like Stalin because he exiled their dude or kruschevites who didn’t like people still supporting Stalin after the official position was against, but basically it’s a sort of “political slur” similar to “tankie” that is Used by leftcoms and trots to demonize AES as not real socialism because they were “too authoritarian” and distance themselves from being lumped in to the same category or that they would have led the Union up to WWII better without the gulags or kulak suppression and that Stalin wasn’t a real Leninist, and by anti-communists who want to declare some communists as especially bad, as they associate Stalin with some of the “worst of socialism.” That should answer it, not sure if I’ve got everything right, though.

      • @Darkerseid
        11•1 year ago

        so it’s just a slur then.

        but then

        • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
          10•1 year ago

          Well reactionaries frequently just threaten us with a good time, and then watch in dismay as we laugh heartily.

          • @Shrike502
            4•1 year ago

            Volga Germans, probably. Or much more likely - once again screeching about Crimean Tatars