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A comment on Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a Brutal Soviet Era.

Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by duxup on Friday October 19, 2018 @10:44AM (#18257036)
The regime was terrible, but I enjoy the scale of some of these soviet monuments.
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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by myst on Friday October 19, 2018 @12:23PM (#18257799)
Why do you think it was terrible?
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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by d0mine on Friday October 19, 2018 @01:18PM (#18258241)
How is it terrible compared to other similar in scale countries?
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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by swebs on Friday October 19, 2018 @01:53PM (#18258570)
The Soviet regime was so terrible that they had to build a wall to keep people in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall

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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by PeterisP on Saturday October 20, 2018 @03:09AM (#18262164)
The other similar in scale countries have performed much less atrocities against their own population.

China has a bit larger total numbers, but they're not similar in scale.

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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by PhasmaFelis on Friday October 19, 2018 @01:30PM (#18258351)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by d0mine on Friday October 19, 2018 @03:09PM (#18259146)
I don't get the logic: if you do it, you are a terrible person. If we do it, we are fighting for freedom or some such.

If you use the term "whataboutism", you are either ignorant or a shill.

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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by PeterisP on Saturday October 20, 2018 @03:18AM (#18262182)
If we disregard the geopolitics and foreign interventions, cold war UK, France or USA was a decent regime to its own people.

If we disregard the geopolitics and foreign interventions, cold war USSR was a horrible regime against its own people.

There are all kinds of horrible things done by those regimes to their own people as well, but they aren't comparable in scale.

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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by PhasmaFelis on Friday October 19, 2018 @06:10PM (#18260460)
It's terrible no matter who does it. You tried to claim that it was less terrible for the USSR to do it, because other countries did it too.
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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by d0mine on Saturday October 20, 2018 @01:27AM (#18261906)
Worse than no justice is only selective justice: one set of rules for us vs. another set of rules for them
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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by PhasmaFelis on Saturday October 20, 2018 @07:38PM (#18266042)
True, but no justice is still pretty bad, and you're advocating for it vigorously.
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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by partiallypro on Friday October 19, 2018 @05:34PM (#18260229)
Maybe the fact that it murdered more people than Hitler's Reich?
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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by darkhorn on Friday October 19, 2018 @10:17PM (#18261361)
In Bulgaria out of 8 million peple between 100000 and 300000 people were killed during the communist regime.
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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by petepete on Friday October 19, 2018 @12:53PM (#18258047)
Aside from the millions of deaths, you mean?
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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by FranzFerdiNaN on Saturday October 20, 2018 @03:20AM (#18262188)
Can’t say it’s much more than the US caused, when you count slavery, the extermination of native people, CIA backed coups, the prison complex and capitalism among others. But if the US does it it’s called “bringing freedom and democracy”, so those deaths dont seem to count.
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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by happyrock on Sunday October 21, 2018 @02:01AM (#18266920)
You people have really terrible arguments.
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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by duxup on Friday October 19, 2018 @01:08PM (#18258169)
History?

I'm kinda lost on the question here.

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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by mLuby on Friday October 19, 2018 @08:01PM (#18260933)
Just to add a different kind of answer from atrocities (which most major countries have committed), the USSR was terrible because it collapsed and exists no longer.
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