Soviet Union Comparisons
Comments debating comparisons of modern events or policies to Soviet Union practices, including anti-Soviet sentiments, historical atrocities like gulags, and criticisms of 'red scare' rhetoric.
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Sounds like something they would do in the USSR.
It's good that it antisoviet, isn't? Soviet Union was responsible for millions of deaths. In Soviet Union, you will be prosecuted as American spy just because you have account on HN.
great, the red-scare boomers have invaded HN. The USSR hasn't existed for half a century you can put your pearls away
yeah def has a feel of communist Russia
yeah, tell us how great USSR was /s
It's like Stalinist Russia, you can believe whatever you want, it's only expressing those beliefs that gets you sent to the gulag.
soviet in title, nothing soviet in article.
You are buying Soviet propaganda. Just an example of what what happening in Khrustchev times for expressing a dissatisfaction:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novocherkassk_massacre
The title mentions Soviets, suggesting this was pre-1991.
With some risk of 'no-true-scotsman', more I look at soviet/cold-war era, more it seems like Russia was exporting weird meld of cult-of-personality, imperialism and fascism?To me, if reading about Gulag destroys left-wing for you, is like if realizing world was not created in 6 days destroyed your faith. Like what was your belief in the first place? But I had simmilar moments as well :)I did hear that SSSR does still have fans in some western countries, and Alexander Solzhen