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Riverside

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  • Banned for stating ehat there are protests in Iran and they need international solidarity... also crimethinc is supposedly "imperialist"

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  • The article describes a time when I showed solidarity

    I talked about your social media activity, not about you thinking something to yourself.

    Yes. The article mentions (and condemns) this, as well

    That's irrelevant to my point. "Nuanced criticism" of the Iranian government the week before it's invaded is bad strategy for socialists in the west, there's already plenty of criticism in all media due to the anti-Iranian government atrocity propaganda. The entire thing circles down to you having good intentions by posting about progressives in Iran being repressed, but doing so during a period of extreme duress in the country which has been caused by the US+EU governments sanctions, and at a time when the country is about to be invaded by the US.

    Your intentions are noble and commendable, and I respect them, but you're unintentionally carrying water for the US invasion by replicating atrocity propaganda at this particular moment.

  • Banned for stating ehat there are protests in Iran and they need international solidarity... also crimethinc is supposedly "imperialist"

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  • You linked a wikipedia article, did you write it yourself?

    Because there are protests in Iran right now

    And why exactly are those protests happening now, I wonder? Maybe because the US+EU imposed a sanction regime on Iran that has destroyed the national currency's exchange value and massively impoverished the vast majority of the population? I'm sure that's also coincidental and has nothing to do with attempts at regime change in the country. It's not like the US has ever explicitly said that it applies economic sanctions to create hunger, desperation and overthrow of governments. Oh, wait...

  • Banned for stating ehat there are protests in Iran and they need international solidarity... also crimethinc is supposedly "imperialist"

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  • You maynever criticize an enemy government of the US

    The word "never" is the key point here. You may very well criticize the Iranian government and defend the progressives in the country, but I would bet 100€ that if we go 1 year back on any of your social media, you have never made this criticism before. Why now particularly, during the military buildup by the US before the imminent attack on Iran? Why specifically Iran too? Clue: it's because the imperial propaganda apparatus has decided that discussing the repression in Iran right now is the agenda, as part of a larger atrocity propaganda campaign.

  • Banned for stating ehat there are protests in Iran and they need international solidarity... also crimethinc is supposedly "imperialist"

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  • You ignored the second half of my comment, could you respond to that part? I'm not questioning that you have good intentions, I know you do, that's not my point. I just want you to understand that directing the conversation towards where you're directing it right before a military attack on Iran creates an easier atmosphere for the Empire to defend its invasion. It's almost the definition of atrocity propaganda:

    "Atrocity propaganda is the spreading of information about the crimes committed by an enemy, which can be factual, but often includes or features deliberate fabrications or exaggerations. This can involve photographs, videos, illustrations, interviews, and other forms of information presentation or reporting".

    With good intentions, undoubtedly, you're presenting information on the repression of progressives in Iran, which is a bad thing which is happening, but doing so right before the invasion amounts to atrocity propaganda by definition.

  • Banned for stating ehat there are protests in Iran and they need international solidarity... also crimethinc is supposedly "imperialist"

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  • You promote imperial propaganda by giving voice to opposition one week before a US invasion of a country. The only reason why you happen to care about Iranian protestors is because of the constant western-manufactured atrocity propaganda, which doesn't need to be fake to serve its purpose of defeatism and of making opposition to armed invasion of Iran less unpalatable among progressives. It's the same tactic of western media overfocusing on Hamas violence in Palestine during a period of literal genocide by Israel.

  • Epstein files: FBI memo says Israel ‘compromised’ Trump, Epstein had Mossad ties

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  • More Palestinians were murdered daily during Biden administration on average than during Trump. That is not because Trump is better, but because genocide of Palestinians is a bipartisan issue in the USA.

  • Obviously Britain did the most

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  • If you ever visit Poland, ping me, me and my boys are gonna fuck you up

    Hope you get banned for that, but I'm glad you resort to violence when confronted with evidence, classic right wing nationalist

  • Obviously Britain did the most

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  • Not just massacring, also because the massive relocations during invasion, the immense focus in industry, huge recruitment of working force, and loss of agricultural land in the south, there were big famines in WW2 USSR. It's the main reason behind the million deaths in prisons during WW2 USSR.

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  • Notice my comment specifically mentioning post-1955. Poland was made to pay reparations to the USSR because of the lives lost saving Poland, which is debatable, this was stopped after the mid 50s

  • Obviously Britain did the most

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  • Yes, because of Yank propaganda. I don't see how they're anything remotely as bad as Vietnam or Korea, look at the figures of deaths. It's just that Europeans are racist as fuck and don't care about deaths of Asians, and American propaganda was much more pervasive.

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  • Gracias, compa <3

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  • So russia invades poland to "protect" them from the nazi

    No. As made explicit on my previous comment, the Soviets invade Poland to put extra distance between themselves and the Nazis, since there are essentially no natural defensive positions in the Great European Plain. You can read the arguments of Chamberlain and Churchill that I included in my comment.

    I don't see why you bring up the modern Russian Federation, though, what kind of link are you trying to make?

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  • 25 million Soviets died during the war. Is the 8.7 just soldiers?

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  • I already provided an extensive comment regarding the widely misconstrued Molotov-Ribbentrop in this comment section, you should check it out.

    Thanks for agreeing with my point: yes, it was the Soviets that took the brunt of the war and did the most to destroy Nazism. Lend lease helped, but the main factor in the destruction of Nazism was the Soviet interwar industrialization push since 1929's first 5-year plan.

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  • it suffered from its close association to the many failures of the Soviet Union (such as its foreign policy flip-flops and numerous human right violations)

    By that logic, all modern pro-NATO parties in the EU should have disappeared in the 1950s. You say the USSR has policy flip flops, but have you looked at the USA's foreign policy? As for human rights violations, I don't really know what you're talking about regarding the French Communist Party "natural political decline". Since Stalin's death in the 1950s the gulags were closed, famines had disappeared, and the USSR was an overwhelmingly peaceful nation that internationally provided help to emancipatory anti-colonial projects such as those of Cuba or Vietnam, while the US bombed the fuck out of them. Also, did you just say "nah" to the source I brought and simply disregarded it?

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  • And what should the alternative be? Because the other only possible alternative was allowing the Nazis full control of those lands. For comparison, the Katyn massacre in Poland likely carried out by the Soviets during occupation consists of figures numbered in the tens of thousands, and Nazi extermination in Poland killed several millions. What's the desired occupation?

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  • while raping the inhabitants

    And that's where we stop arguing. There is no evidence of higher rates of sexual assault by Soviet troops than by any other, and the whole "rapist hordes" stems from Nazi wartime propaganda and has been picked up by racists like you. You stop being able to defend "polish ownership" over majority Lithuanian, Belarusian and Ukrainian territories by ethnicity when confronted with evidence, and resort to racist Nazi propaganda of "rapist hordes".

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  • You're not answering my question:

    Britain got 3 times as much aid from Lend-Lease than the USSR. If Lend-Lease is the main factor behind the Soviets defeating the Nazis (as proven by Nazis suffering 80% of their dead soldiers in the Eastern Front), why didn't Britain kill many more Nazis?

  • Hasan Piker banned from Twitch for calling ICE supporters "rabid ultra-Zionist pigs'

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