Post by @Riverside@reddthat.com

2026-04-15 06:11 UTC

France got liberated thanks to the Soviets too, we're talking all of Europe here. In the rest of places, as I said, replacing it by a system with full free healthcare, worker's rights, respect of minorities and their languages and cultures, free education to the highest level, anti-imperialism and industrial development and self-reliance. The dismantling of the Eastern Block is the biggest demographic catastrophe in Europe since WW2.

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@Tja@programming.dev 2026-04-15 11:08

Anti imperialism? How did they become the largest country on earth? Respect of minorities? Tell that to the tens of thousands of people executed in forests. Or starved to death. Because of their identity. Industrial development? Yes, current Russia having an economy the size of Italy is a testament to that. Plenty of countries have free education and Healthcare.

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@j_overgrens@feddit.nl 2026-04-15 08:33

Worthwile to note that the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were longstanding allies before Operation Barbarossa and a critical amount of steel and oil that supplied the Nazi war machine after the allied embargo was supplied by the Soviet union. Which says nothing of the monumental sacrifice given by Soviet civilians, but let's separate that from Stalin's policy, perhaps?

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