• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    20 days ago

    Your ancestors were not enslaved, and you seem to have a deeply racist view towards Russians and the other soviet peoples. Socialism uplifted hundreds of millions, it was Tsarism where Russians had empty lives and were ground to dust for profit, profit for kulaks, landlords, aristocrats, and the bourgeoisie. The peasants and industrial workers overthrew the kulaks, aristocracy, landlords, and bourgeoisie precisely because they lived in such misery.

    Counter to what you believe, the arts flourished. Soviet cinema was beautiful, and unlike in the west, was not subject to the same profit pressures and thus directors had more freedom. In paintings, the soviets centered the working classes and a beautiful, hopeful picture for the future:

    I agree that environmentalism is badass, but we shouldn’t be ecofascists. Ecology requires deliberate, scientific planning of production and distribution, which is only compatible with socialism and communism. Greenwashing and capitalism will never be able to solve the climate crisis.

    • Mudman@sh.itjust.works
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      20 days ago

      First of all Russians are not a race. Second, I don’t talk about russian people, I have plenty of russian friends who are not retarded and can see that cccp was inhuman and oppressive system. It did the same damage to russians too.

      Go travel, talk to people.

      Find joy in life. If you feel like defending genocidal dictatorship, I can tell you - life is a miracle, enjoy it. Hug your grandmother. Plant a tree.

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        There are several ethnicities in Russia, and many more were in the soviet union. You’re erasing the fact that the brutal system you called “beautiful,” the kulak system of farming, was so monstrous that the peasantry aligned with industrial workers to overthrow it. This requires dehumanizing them and their struggle. I do have joy in life. I fight for socialism, and a better world in general. Not sure what you’re trying to do here.