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Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · Sep 22

The atrocities of both the Soviet communist and Nazi regimes were crimes against humanity. Surprisingly, those who oppose the latter often whitewash the former.

Full text: www.levandehistoria.se/sites/defaul...

For some time it has been entirely conceivable to state publicly that Josef Stalin did run terror campaigns that robbed many Soviet citizens of their lives, yet at the same time created the embryo of the Soviet welfare state and defeated Hitler’s Nazi Germany. However, it has not been conceivable to even suggest that Hitler was not only the perpetrator of genocide, but also built motorways and ensured that the German people had employment. This relationship says something about the conditions under which Nazi and communist history is communicated. It is enough to look up more or less any history textbook to ascertain that the communist and Nazi leader figures and their crimes have been presented and evaluated in extremely different ways by future generations.

The introductory sentences above should not be applicable to either of these cases, even if there is firm historical evidence that both dictators did actually gain significant popularity in the 1930s through promotion of economic and social development for broad swathes of the population, and in a more general sense, largescale terror activities went hand in hand with strong socio-political dynamics in terror societies like those of Nazi Germany and the communist Soviet Union. There is an immediate risk that the juxtaposition of one ‘good’ and one ‘evil’ policy makes this history appear as a zero-sum game, where the negative aspect – a regime’s unprecedented use of violence – can be balanced by or even compensated for by the aspects of that regime’s practice and results that seemed at the time or seem in hindsight to be positive.

So is it not also immoral to compare communism and Nazism, as ideologies, as movements and as regimes that perpetrated crimes against humanity? Is it possible to do this without automatically arousing suspicion that the atrocities perpetrated by Hitler and the Nazi regime are to be covered up or minimised? The idea that there could be suspicions of the opposite is hardly current. One important difference is that a comparison of this nature is not as closed and conditioned as the previous one. Rather, it allows room for many more alternatives and interpretations. The thought process involved in comparing communism and Nazism is not a zero-sum game. It has every chance of leading to the conclusion that two evil things are being compared.

Nonetheless, for many reflective people, the comparison is challenging, since it risks getting ‘locked’ into the fundamental difference between the good intentions and evil intentions established at the beginning of this text, and into the fear of a single-track approach that places the two regimes on a par. At the same time, this comparison is urgent and important, partly because it is carried out in practice, indeed to a greater extent in our time, and partly because it responds to a scientific need and interest in understanding and explaining the most significant phenomena of contemporary history, both individually and in their wider context. A comparison promotes both perspectives and helps us to pose new questions, establish new perspectives, and clarify unspoken assumptions in the academic community. There is an intrinsic comparative challenge in comparing the type of mass brutality ordered by Stalin and Hitler on a European battlefield hit by revolution, civil war, world war and major social upheaval.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 4m

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This video was recorded on November 11, 2023 in Warsaw, Poland.
It depicts a crowd of approx. 70,000 during an Independence Day march organized by the Polish national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 36m

This is called karma.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 39m

I was asking the other guy

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 40m

Are you defending rape because Ted Bundy did worse shit?

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 46m

Iike, millions executed without trial?

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 58m

It doesn't look that bad for someone who learns about the world from memes found on 4chan.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 1h

a group of people are sitting around a table with masks on their faces

Alt: a group of people are sitting around a table with masks on their faces

media.tenor.com

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks for your opinion, comrade

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 1h

Is there any study that supports your thesis? Since it's unlikely you went through both systems yourself, you either read some data, or this claim is completely baseless.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 1h

Homelessness was also a problem within the East Bloc, although officially it didn't exist.

I'm sure you're able to name a few basic human rights that were taken away or severly abused by the communist regimes.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 1h

This book describes the political motives and power struggle behind the 1991 referendum. Without proper context this debate is pointless.
libgen.ac/book/15555821

The Strategic Use of Referendums: Power, Legitimacy, and Democracy | Libgen

Referendums—the direct popular vote on an issue—appear to be the most democratic of decision mechanisms because the voice of the people is directly he...

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 1h

No, the legality of dissolution of the USSR is contested mainly by opinion makers employed by the Kremlin propaganda machine. There's plenty of academic studies that dissect the bs in detail. Here's a brief debunking of the false narrative spread by Sputnik.

Sputnik-Abkhazia and РИА Новости Declare the Dissolution of the Soviet Union and the 1991 Referendum Illegitimate

On December 8th, the Russian state-run Sputnik Abkhazia published an article by Vladimir Kornilov, author of RIA Novosti, entitled: “Six People Who

mythdetector.com

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2h

For millions the demise of the Soviet empire with its sphere of influence meant freedom and sovereignty: thr opposite of "awful". Any nostalgia towards the USSR or the lack of is a direct result of the path chosen by each nation. Russian attitude towards its neighbours hasn't changed much.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 3h

Communism gave some rights. And took away fuckload of them.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 3h

It was illegal, while USSR dissolved legally. Not much to add.

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War in Ukraine / Under-the-radar news @under-radar-news.bsky.social · 7h

Russia tightens control over Soviet memory: officials downplay remembrance in Magadan, rehabilitations reversed, Memorial shut, Gulag Museum pressures, eroding independent memory amid revisionism 🇷🇺 🕰️

“You can’t talk about the Gulag in Kolyma”: Magadan teachers told not to discuss Soviet political repressions — or mention them online

--> Local authorities in the town of Magadan, located in Russia’s Far East, recently issued verbal orders banning schools and libraries from holding events dedicated to victims of Soviet-era political repressions — or even mentioning them online — according to a report by the independent outlet Govorit NeMoskva. The instructions were reportedly circulated in teachers’ and librarians’ chat groups ahead of Oct. 30, the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repressions.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 4h

What was illegal in the first place, was the bolsheviks' seizure of power. The dissolution was legal, whatever TASS or Russian revisionists claim today.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 4h

You can't argue with "I've been following David Icke on reptilians, 5G and vibrational energy and he's never been wrong" kind of thinking.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 4h

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Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 4h

Illegally? Lol

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, you obviously know shit.

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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewan.lol · 7h

The sheer hypocrisy of Russia annoys me the most. Only they are allowed to be violently expansionist. If NATO peacefully expands, that's a red line. Only they can test missiles, anyone else, it's a threat. Only they can threaten to nuke people, anyone else, it's suddenly not good for relations.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 5h

Excellent, indepth rebuttal of Maersheimer's flawed argumenting line.
www.analyse-und-kritik.net/Dateien/648e...

www.analyse-und-kritik.net

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 9h

Also, Russia a.d. 2025 is just hell.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 9h

It worked just fine in many democraic welfare states.