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history rhymes, or something (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 147 points 1 week ago (34 children)

Let's see...

Nazism
McCarthyism
Vietnam War
Racial Injustice
South African Apartheid
Occupy Wall Street
Gaza Genocide
etc.

I am curious. Has there ever been a wide-scale student protest movement that WASN'T unequivocally vindicated by history?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (14 children)

University students lead the Hungarian Revolution, and history doesn't remember them fondly. They rebelled against the Soviet Union, which makes them Nazis. It's a good thing our dear leader Stalin sent the tanks in to kill those students.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (13 children)

I had to look it up (dont know much about it), but in the Wikipedia entry it notes:

Time named the Hungarian Freedom Fighter its Man of the Year

And

In 2006, Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány referred to this famous Time cover as "the faces of free Hungary" in a speech marking the 50th anniversary of the uprising.

Which makes me think they were later vindicated. But maybe I'm missing something.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I may be wrong and lack any historical knowledge on the subject, but I think author is sarcastically self-identifying as a tankie?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not a troll, I'm a 100% serious and proud Marxist-Leninist. And I think there was nothing wrong with Stalin selling lumber and steel to Nazi Germany in the 1930s to make weapons with. Because I'm a real communist!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ok but you are a troll. You're just not very good at making jokes because when called out you are doubling down on being stupid

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

How DARE you!? I would never satirize Marxist-Leninist positions to raise awareness of problems with the Soviet Union and promote anarchism as a viable alternative. Because anarchists are all stinky!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

selling lumber and steel to Nazi Germany in the 1930s

Every future member of the Allies did this.

What really separated the Soviets from other future Allies is it approaching Britain and France on the eve of the war with an offer of an anti-Nazi pact. imagine if those countries were not so rabidly anti-communist that they agreed to this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Oh its 100% possible, I have no idea.

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