Ahhh noo, the magical words burn like fire on the screen. Electricity arcs from my keyboars, up my arms, chasing my spinal column to the base of my skull where, in a sputtering fizz that belies the magnitude if the event, the chip that connects me to The XiTin hivemind is reduced to burned out gates and molten traces.
I blink, seeing the world with new eyes for the first time.
... Was that what you're expecting?
Not a particular fan of the USSR but 100% I wish it was the usa that disbanded in 1991. Miserable place that exports war and suffering, and it used to blugeon the proles by saying "be grateful for what you have, it's worse in the USA".
Garbage place, I visited once and it was literally stomach turning how much suffering was surrounded by so much wealth. The only places I've seen more miserable and places the USA has been colonising or bombing.
usaians are like genetically incapable of just taking a joke on the chin. The least interesting culture in the world.
Well as long as it's bounded mass slaughter that's ok then.
What the fuck is this? What sort of genocidal maniac are you?
This isn't anarchism, this isn't a stance informed by theory, this is toxic misanthropy.
How is "kill a third of everyone" getting any upvotes? This is disgusting, you are disgusting. Read some books you derranged maniac.
Basically, but I'm golem/smeegoling my way through it all
Anarchocommunists in shambles.
Also just because it sort of pisses me off when people have strong opinions on shit they know nothing about here is a CIA report on the gulags from 1957 https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80T00246A032000400001-1.pdf
I think it makes for interesting reading, as even this rather adversarial document seems to indicate that the propagandised view of them is exaggerated. They do point out some nutty things, some of which were improved.
I think the idea that the USSR was some uniquely evil place is just patently false, it seems to be pretty ordinary in the evil produced, ahead of its time in some regards (e.g. women's rights, certain ethnicities inclusions, anti homeless architecture etc), and dissapointingly typical in other regards like treatment of lgbt people, mental illness, exclusion of certain ethnicities, approach to criminal rehabilitation and so on.