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  • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The “Holodomor” really is a huge propaganda coup.

    You know what I don’t see mentioned much? The decades and decades of war movies and history channel documentaries and related shit that puffed the Nazis up in to hyper-competent war wizards with super tanks while pretty much erasing all their political and ideological positions. An entire generations of Americans grew up knowing that the Tiger II was actually a Gundam, but very few if any of them learned anything at all abut Nazi economics or ideology.

    Like you shouldn’t be able to say “Public/Private Partnership” without being immediately denounced as a fascist, but no one knows where neo-liberal ideology actually came from, and it’s popular in certain circles to claim neoliberalism isn’t even real and is just a pejorative commies use.

    • YEP [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Holodomor is so wild like society regressed to comparable understanding of “hight of the cold war” sovietologists. Like mf the archives were opened we know what happened

      • Sephitard9001 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        Yeah but also you have issues like post-Stalin USSR “admitting to” the Katyn Forest Massacre for political expedience so Soviet “documents” and “archives” are not always reliable since you can’t really verify each and every one independently.