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Re:The Sovietisation of the Mongolian language and challenge... by nosianu on Saturday May 08, 2021 @03:19AM (#27084747)
I grew up in East Germany. I was part of the mass events leading to the wall coming down, so you can tell what side I'm on.

Still, I hate it with a passion that anytime someone dares to mention some good points of what happened in the "socialist" Eastern countries, and on a purely human level there is plenty even on the system level, comes up with this whataboutism normally thrown at others.

Yes those systems had to go. But there was plenty of good stuff there, and rebuking anyone who dares mention some is unhelpful. It's such a random uncontrolled reflex.

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Re:The Sovietisation of the Mongolian language and challenge... by simonh on Saturday May 08, 2021 @06:05AM (#27085613)
Praise be to Godwin. There's always one, and often several.
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Re:The Sovietisation of the Mongolian language and challenge... by cxfame on Saturday May 08, 2021 @06:45AM (#27085856)
Godwin's law does not apply to the situation when Stalin is mentioned and someone introduces a Hitler comparison. They were both evil but Stalin had the ideological framework that presented him as good.
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