I will not defend Stalin and I will not defend the CCP. Just because capitalism isn’t good doesn’t mean that we have to glaze imperialist states. Ask Ukraine and the Baltic states how good they had it during the USSR; my point being that pro-USSR sentiments are largely just pro-Russian propaganda.

China is doing some good nowadays, but it still definitely has corruption. There are still billionaires, polluted air, capitalistic factories—which have terrible working conditions and sell cheaply made carcinogenic products, they’re building AI data centres—some of which will boil the water temperature, bans citizens from accessing a lot of websites, etc.

I even decided to join a solidarity website and it mentioned f**cking Kim Jong-Un as a leftist figure ffs 💀. Literally, ANY North Korean defector will tell you how bad the North Korean regime is. The site had no mention of actual decent examples like Peter Kropotkin, Nelson Mandela, Thomas Sankara, Martin Luther King Jr, or even Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.

Edit: did not know that Proudhon was a bigot. My bad; thanks immensely for telling me.

  • PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 days ago

    What I don’t buy is that it was for ideological reasons, else the Comintern wouldn’t have told the communists to sit still while their countries were being taken by the nazis… if it wasn’t for Barbarossa, do you think USSR would have “saved Europe from German fascist takeover”? They had already agreed in dividing Eastern Europe, and the USSR didn’t have to tell the communist parties to not join the resistance in their countries, but they did, and even after being invaded Stalin delayed the response because he trusted more his deal with Hitler than his own officials (he was more eager to fight Finland than he was to fight the nazis)…
    In the end, the first assessment was right, it was just an imperialist conflict, USSR being just another imperialist country and all these grandeur slogans are just propaganda, the USSR didn’t fight to destroy fascism or “save Europe from fascism”, their literal guideline was to not fight fascism, they only changed it when they were attacked