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  • Salph@infosec.pubtoBreadTube@lemmy.worldYour Heroes Were All "Tankies"
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    3 months ago

    Nelson Mandela bombed railways, was in South Africa’s communist party, worked with Cuba’s communist government, and sabotaged the South African government to overthrow apartheid.

    If he did any of that right now, liberals would be calling him a “tankie”. And they did indeed insult him back then when he did so. It’s always after the fact that liberals admit these people were in the right.















  • “What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.”

    The GDR called western govs’ habit of pinkwashing their imperialism — only possible because non-imperial core countries are the victims of colonialism are thus less economically stable, which is generally correlated with LGBT rights — the “political misuse of homosexuals” and had started improving LGBT rights and protections in the 80s.

    If the Soviet bloc wasn’t overthrown afterwards, I’m sure the rest of the Soviet states would’ve followed suit. Probably part of why Cuba did so too.