2026-04-15 05:29 UTC
Ironic that you'd call "red fascists" to the people supporting the socialist movement that literally saved Europe from fascism.
Tankies support systems that have historically brought massive improvements to working and peasant classes in the oppressed world. Doubling and tripling life expectancy wherever communism arrives and succeeds, literacy from 20-30% to 100% in a few decades, women's rights, worker rights, free massive healthcare, free education... You just argue against tankies because you're a westerner whose leftism is conformed by CIA propaganda. You don't support any historically successful socialist movement (Cuba, Soviets, China, Vietnam, Laos) precisely *because* they defeated capitalism and fascism.
Especially hurtful as a Spaniard, where we leftists lost our civil war because the biggest leftist movements were anarchists and they couldn't win a war, and we were left with 40 years of fascist dictatorship. You'd just rather praise the anarchists that lost against fascism than the communists who defeated it elsewhere.
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@aketawi@quokk.au 2026-04-15 10:28
>saved Europe from fascism a fascist state fought a war against a competing fascist state. simply being on the side opposing Nazi Germany doesn't magically make your state a perfect divine utopia
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@Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-15 06:01
The nazis' economy was a shell game of debt, and they were overextended militarily. Their regime would have fallen even if they had won the war. Secondly, the USSR at first joined forces with the nazis until they were betrayed by them, and after the soviets joined the allies, they received massive aid under the lend-lease act. And even with the aid, they still had to rely on human-wave tactics.