Gravelord-_Nito t1_j2cn2ro wrote on December 31, 2022 at 6:37 AM

Reply to comment by Rhetam in This day, 100 years ago, the USSR was created by SENPA-A-A-A-I-I

Nobody on earth has any leg to stand on when criticizing someone else for ethnic cleansings in the 20th century. The US and all the other colonial powers enthusiastically sold entire races into slavery for banana corporations and murdered millions who didn't like it. It really irks me how smug and judgmental Westerners in fucking COLONIAL STATES get over other people's violent checkered pasts.

Rhetam t1_j2ctg9q wrote on December 31, 2022 at 7:54 AM

Here's a hot take: You can condemn both the Western colonial powers and Russia for their genocidal, imperialist pasts.

Fuck 'em both. The only ones who can't are dumbfuck nationalists or even dumber tankies who try to act morally superior but deny the Holodomor or the Uyghur Genocide in the same breath.

United_Target8942 t1_j2d6cp4 wrote on December 31, 2022 at 10:50 AM

This is true, fuck both systems.

However, I rarely ever see people mention that over a hundred million people died due to structural violence, from the british control over india. Yet everytime the USSR is mentioned, people immediately point to the genocides and oppression. Thankfully people are finally adopting the attitude that people like Winston Churchill were in fact a monsters much like the ones that westerners are used to hypocritically pointing at.

The reality is, every single country indoctrinates the public to be hypocrites on geopolitical crimes. At least, i can't think of a single country that isn't.