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@LibertyCappy
Even the Soviets weren't crazy enough to deny the moon landing, because they had the same tracking equipment we had and could tell it actually happened.
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On January 30th, 1930, the Bolshevik Politburo issued a resolution ordering the elimination of kulak households. Hundreds of thousands of kulaks were killed and many more sent to camps, some as far away as Siberia or Central Asia, for being...better farmers than their neighbors.
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#OnThisDay
, June 2nd, in 1989, three days after rebel attacks in Hargeisa, the army and air force of Somalia's socialist leader, Siad Barre, bombards the city. 90% of the city is levelled, an estimated 50,000 killed and hundreds of thousands displaced.
#Socialism
#Genocide
#OTD
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On July 24th, 1959, Nixon and Khrushchev had their famous "Kitchen Debate". Khrushchev predicted Nixon's children would live in communism. Nixon predicted Khrushchev's would live in freedom. The USSR ended in 1991 and in 1999 Khrushchev's son became a US Citizen.
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On May 1st, 1961, because of social justice or something, Fidel Castro banned multi-party elections and declared Cuba a socialist nation. And things have just gone *great* since then.
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On September 17th, 1939, the Soviets invaded Poland, 16 days after the Nazis invaded. The communist and Nazi armies would cooperate in dividing the country in half. The USSR also took over 200,000 Polish prisoners, many of whom were massacred the next year in the Katyn massacre.
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On March 4th, 1954, Bulgarian Communist ruler Todor Zhivkov began a brutal 35-year rule. One of the worst crimes during his rule was the forced assimilation drive against the 1 million ethnic Turks. Over 300,000 Turks who resisted were forcibly expelled and over 100 were killed.
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On July 20th, 1944, after the mass deportation of Crimean Tatars, the NKVD realized they had missed hundreds of Crimeans in the Arabat Spit. Rather than deport them, they put them onto an old boat and sunk it in the middle of the Azov Sea. Any trying to escape drowning were shot.
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"His moral values."
To celebrate the 96th birthday of Cuban revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, we recall Fidel Castro’s reflections on his life… 🇨🇺
“What did he leave behind? I believe the biggest thing is, really, his moral values, his conscience. Che symbolized the highest human...
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On June 17th, 1940, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov summoned German Ambassador Schulenburg to his office, congratulating Germany on its victory over France.
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On January 26th, 1943, Soviet botanist Nikolai Vavilov died in prison. He was jailed for criticizing Stalin's favorite scientist, Trofim Lysenko, saying his agricultural theories could cause disaster. This would prove true, as they contributed to both Soviet and Chinese famines.
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On August 7th, 1932, the USSR enacted the "Law of Spikelets" to protect collective property. Under the law, thousands were executed and as many as 200,000 sentenced to long sentences. Many of those sentenced were starving peasants who merely took leftover grain from farm fields.
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On August 11th, 1922, the Red Army and Reichswehr signed an agreement allowing Germany to set up bases in Russia to test military equipment banned and to train troops.
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His daughter denounced him and defected to the United States. Not all dads are good.
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On March 13th, 1946, the Yugoslavian secret police, UDBA, was created. Over their 45-year existence, they committed various acts of oppression and terror, jailed political prisoners (sometimes more per capita than the USSR) and committed an estimated 200 political assassinations.
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On August 13th, 1968, one of many massacres in the Cultural Revolution began in Dao County and several surrounding counties in Hunan Province, China. Approximately 9,000 people were accused of being "Counter-Revolutionary" or "Right-Wing" and killed.
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On July 28th, 1942, Joseph Stalin issued Order No. 227. Any soldiers who retreated from the Nazis without orders, even in the face of overwhelming advances, could be sent to Gulags or executed. The order created blocking battalions to shoot retreating soldiers.
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Communism is just bringing back slavery.
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Given the stunning disaster that followed, it's odd that anyone would celebrate this.
107 years ago today, legendary revolutionary Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin returned to his homeland, arriving in Petrograd. This was a key moment in Russian and world history, leading to the Great October Socialist Revolution.
Following 17 years of exile, Lenin arrived on
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On March 15th, 1938, Genrikh Yagoda, bloodthirsty head of the NKVD, was executed. His successor, Nicolai Yezhov, was also a bloodthirsty lunatic who eventually was executed. *His* replacement, Lavrentiy Beria, was a bloodthirsty, rapey lunatic and was also eventually executed.
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The people who actually greeted the Soviets with open arms? Nazis who invaded from the other side.
Soviet illustration (November 1939) showing the Red Army being greeted by crowds as it enters Poland in September 1939. Published on the cover of 'Around the World' (Вокруг света) geographic magazine.
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On July 6th, 1988, exhumation of mass graves in Kurapaty, Belarus began, discovering ovaer 30,000 bodies. Russian and Belarusian investigators concluded from eyewitnesses and confessions of perpetrators that they had been murdered by the NKVD between 1937 and 1941.
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On December 13, 1958, the "Smash Sparrows" campaign began in communist China. The sparrow population was nearly wiped as a result. Without sparrows to control their population, crop eating insects went wild resulting in massive crop failure that contributed to the Great Famine.
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This is the most delusional take I've seen in a while. Communism didn't lift people out of slavery and serfdom.
It just produced a new serfdom just like Alexis de Tocqueville predicted.
I'm PROUD to be a communist and to inherit a tradition which defeated Hitler, lifted over a billion people out of slavery and serfdom, and transformed nations from wretchedness into superpowers through nothing but their own hard work.
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On July 18th, 1936, after a coup attempt against the heavily socialist and communist government of Spain, leftist groups launched the Red Terror against suspected enemies, including the Catholic church. Nearly 900 clergymen were killed in the first two weeks.
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He didn't appear to realize that his system was the one that produced hunger, poverty, humiliation, exploitation, and slavery. (See: Great Famine, Holodomor, Gulags, etc.).
The Soviet communist leader Vladimir Lenin said of May Day that it was “the day when the workers of all lands celebrate their awakening to a class-conscientiousness, their solidarity in the struggle against all coercion and oppression of man by man, the struggle to free the
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#OnThisDay
, July 30th, in 1937 during the Great Purge, the Soviet Politburo issued NKVD Order no. 00447, targeting kulaks and "anti-soviets". The NKVD shot and killed nearly 400,000 people carrying out this order. Hundreds of thousands more were sent to gulags.
#Communism
#OTD
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On August 17th, 1945, George Orwell's biting satire of Stalin's brand of communism in the Soviet Union, Animal Farm, was first published. It was banned in the USSR until nearly the end of the Cold War.
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On July 27th, 1967, during the Cultural Revolution, the CCP denounced Ulanhu, Chairman of Inner Mongolia, and a purge commenced. Over 16,000 were killed and tens of thousands more were arrested and tortured, many of whom were permanently disabled.
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On August 11th, 1918, Vladimir Lenin's "Hanging Order" was issued, commanded hangings in response to a kulak revolt in the Penza region. It ordered that over 100 kulaks be rounded up and hanged.
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On March 5th, 1953, Joseph Stalin died at his dacha in Moscow after suffering a stroke four days earlier. Nikita Khrushchev would take over, which resulted in the USSR going from "completely psychotic" to "still mostly psychotic".
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On May 1st, 1961, because of social justice or something, Fidel Castro banned multi-party elections and declared Cuba a socialist nation. And things have just gone *great* since then.
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"Only crime was giving a voice to the 90%". 🤡
Here's a crime, the Katyn Massacre. There are thousands of others.
The Bolsheviks were a fiercly militant working class movement whose only crime was giving a voice to the 90% Russian peasant majority who were marginalized for centuries by a foreign aristocracy.
They restored Russia to greatness after a series of humiliating defeats, and
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On September 22nd, 1939, roughly one month after signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Nazis and Soviets held a military parade in Brest-Litovsk to celebrate their joint conquest of Poland.
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On August 13th, 1968, one of many massacres in the Cultural Revolution began in Dao County and several surrounding counties in Hunan Province, China. Approximately 9,000 people were accused of being "Counter-Revolutionary" or "Right-Wing" and killed.
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On March 31st, 1933, Walter Duranty wrote an article entitled "Russians Hungry, but not Starving" in the New York Times. In reality, famine was widespread in the Soviet Union and ultimately had a death toll from 5 to 8 million, 3 to 5 million of which were Ukrainian.
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On September 19th, 1974, the KGB began a propaganda operation to discredit Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn after he blew the lid off of the Gulag system in the communist USSR by publishing "the Gulag Archipelago". They also took steps to cut his contacts with dissidents.
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On January 3rd, 1959, Che Guevara took control of La Cabana, an old Spanish Fortress near Havana, Cuba, and converted part of it into a prison. He oversaw hundreds of executions of political prisoners there, reportedly delivering the final shot to many prisoners personally.
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I'm always shocked at the number of people who think socialism would be better for the environment. Historically, socialist countries are over polluted hellscapes.
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On September 3rd, 1918, the Soviet propaganda paper Izvestia officially announced the Red Terror. It reported that hundreds of hostages had been executed in Petrograd and called for violence against anyone deemed "counter-revolutionary".
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Communism doesn't need banning. Just tell people the truth of its history and it'll ban itself.
Communist Parties: The attempt to ban the communist ideology in the republics of Central Asia shall not pass!
#kazakhstan
#uzbekistan
#socialism
#communism
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On July 24th, 1959, Nixon and Khrushchev had their famous "Kitchen Debate". Khrushchev predicted Nixon's children would live in communism. Nixon predicted Khrushchev's would live in freedom. The USSR ended in 1991 and in 1999 Khrushchev's son became a US Citizen.
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By "liberate" we mean "subjugate eastern Europe for fifty years". Not like the *actual* liberation of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, etc.
💯 Next time, before spouting your anti-soviet nonsense, take a break, relax and ask yourself the following question: Who defeated Nazism and liberated Europe from Hitler's yoke? Yes, it was Stalin and the Red Army.
#Fact
#History
#Eternal_Gratitude_to_the_USSR
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On March 15th, 1938, Genrikh Yagoda, bloodthirsty head of the NKVD, was executed. His successor, Nicolai Yezhov, was also a bloodthirsty lunatic who eventually was executed. *His* replacement, Lavrentiy Beria, was a bloodthirsty, rapey lunatic and was also eventually executed.
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Official Soviet estimates showed that on July 1st, 1933, nearly 2,000,000 tons of grain were being held in secret grain reserves for the Red Army. Analysts later estimated that nearly eight million lives could have been saved in the Great Famine had the grain been distributed.
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On August 13th, 1961, East Germany closed the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to prevent citizens from escaping and began building the Berlin wall. The wall would remain in place for nearly three decades.
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On June 11th, 1937, eight high ranking Soviet military leaders were convicted in a show trial using false evidence and forced confessions. They were executed the next day. Several family members of the condemned were also killed in later days.
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On June 15th, 1940, a day after delivering an ultimatum to the Lithuanian government, the *totally* not imperialist Soviet Union occupied Lithuania. This occupation, which I guess was for "social justice" or whatever, lasted 50 years.
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His beliefs.
Today is the birthday of Che Guevara, an idol of revolutionary, whose name has become synonymous with rebellion, revolution and socialism, who fought and died for his beliefs, remembering him on his birth anniversary.
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@id_communism
You left out Maoist China and the USSR, although arguably the extent of their crimes exceeds Nazi Germany.
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On June 25th, 1991, Slovenia and Croatia declared their independence. This and the events that followed ultimately lead to the final collapse of socialist Yugoslavia.
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On August 17th, 1945, George Orwell's biting satire of Stalin's brand of communism in the Soviet Union, Animal Farm, was first published. It was banned in the USSR until nearly the end of the Cold War.
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On April 3rd, 2011, dissident artist Ai Weiwei was arrested at the Beijing airport. The government claimed that he was suspected of "economic crimes.” Critics believed it was actually due to his participation in a series of peaceful protests in February of that year.
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On August 19th, 1936, the first of the Moscow Trials was convened. It was a show trial that Stalin used to purge party leadership. All 16 defendants were convicted, sentenced to death, and executed in Lubyanka prison.
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On September 23rd, 1967, a massacre began in Yangchun County, China after the local authorities ordered a campaign against "counterrevolutionaries". Over 2,500 people were killed. Methods of killing included shooting, beating, drowning, stabbing, stoning, and burning alive.
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On August 12th, 1936, during the Spanish Red Terror, socialist anarchists began executing nearly two hundred innocent people near Madrid, Spain. The dead included Bishop Manuel Basulto Jimenez along with his sister Theresa.
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On July 28th, 1968, four armed Viet Cong raided the Chợ Lớn Daily News, a prominent Chinese language newspaper in Saigon. They forced the workers out of the building, detonated an explosive in the city room, and fled before police could arrive.
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On September 7th, 1978, a Bulgarian state security agent used a modified umbrella to inject a ricin pellet into Bulgarian dissident writer Georgi Markov's right thigh while Markov waited at a bus stop near Waterloo bridge in London. Markov died four days later.
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On September 19th, 1940, Polish officer Witold Pilecki arranged to be sent to Auschwitz to gather intel. He later escaped and took part in the Warsaw Uprising. After the war, the communist regime claimed he was an agent for imperialist powers and executed him after a show trial.
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On August 19th, 1966, the campaign to Destroy the Four Olds (referring to "old" culture, ideas, customs, and habits) begins in Beijing. Classic architecture, countless works of literature and art, and many Buddhist temples are destroyed.
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On this day, November 7th, in 1917, the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia, promising “peace, land and bread” to the people. Over the next 74 years, the people were starved, killed by death squads, thrown in camps and gulags, and other things unrelated to “peace, land and bread”.
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#OnThisDay
, July 7th, in 1949, the "land reform" movement began in China. The Chinese Communist party targeted landowners with violence and seized their land for redistribution. Mao Zedong's own estimates of the number of murders were from two to three million.
#Communism
#OTD
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@satireV5
@LibertyCappy
I've got plenty but I can also spot someone who won't be convinced no matter how big the mountain of evidence is.
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On September 17th, 1939, the Soviets invaded Poland, 16 days after the Nazis invaded. The communist and Nazi armies would cooperate in dividing the country in half. The USSR also took over 200,000 Polish prisoners, many of whom were massacred the next year in the Katyn massacre.
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On April 29th, 1969, KGB head Yuri Andropov proposed that the Soviet Central Committee set up mental hospitals to "defend the Soviet Government and the socialist order". The result would be that dissidents would be declared mentally ill and could be detained indefinitely.
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On September 26th, 1936, Nikolai Yezhov was named head of the NKVD in the USSR. Over the next few years, the "Bloody Dwarf" imprisoned millions, many of whom went to gulags and died of hunger or exposure, and executed nearly 700,000. Then Stalin killed and literally deleted him.
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On April 22nd, 1870, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born in Simbirsk, Russia. Nearly fifty years later, under the assumed name Vladimir Lenin, he will lead a revolution that produces one of the most bloody, vicious regimes in history, the Soviet Union.
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On September 3rd, 1918, the Soviet propaganda paper Izvestia officially announced the Red Terror. It reported that hundreds of hostages had been executed in Petrograd and called for violence against anyone deemed "counter-revolutionary".
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On the contrary, we know almost nothing about the history of communism. If people, particularly young people, knew the things I've discovered about the history of communism over the past several years, they would want nothing to do with it.
You’ve been taught Communism was bad because the capitalist elite has too much to lose from you knowing the truth.
#AmericanCommunistParty
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On December 27th, 1929, Stalin announced the "liquidation of the kulaks". AKA arrest them, shoot them, or send them to Siberia. And turn their farms into collective farms with noticeably lower output. In a *completely* unrelated story, a large famine began the next year.
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On August 27th, 1966, the Red Guards went wild in the Daxing district of Beijing, targeting anyone that was considered anti-revolutionary. Over 300 people, including children and infants, were killed in five days. Methods of killing included beating, strangling, and beheading.
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@satireV5
@LibertyCappy
It wasn't the communications I was referencing, it was the radar tracking. The same things they use to track incoming missiles etc. showed them that an object landed on the moon.
Of course, this isn't the only evidence. Indian spacecraft recently took pics of the landing sites.
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On February 9th, 1984, Soviet leader and former KGB head Yuri Andropov, known for brutally suppressing dissidents and rebels, died barely a year after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev. Ronald Reagan refused to attend any memorial for Andropov saying, “I don’t want to honor that prick."
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On September 26th, 1936, Nikolai Yezhov was named head of the NKVD in the USSR. Over the next few years, the "Bloody Dwarf" imprisoned millions, many of whom went to gulags and died of hunger or exposure, and executed nearly 700,000. Then Stalin killed and literally deleted him.
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On January 23rd, 2010, thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas to protest the rolling blackouts, water rationing, and increasing crime that had become the norm under the socialist regime of Hugo Chavez.
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On January 11th, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev sent troops to quell the independence movement in Lithuania. Tanks, soldiers, and paratroopers entered Vilnius and other cities, clashing with unarmed civilians. Over the next two days, 14 civilians died and 700 were injured.
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On May 8th, 1946, in Talinn, Estonia, after the Red Army destroyed a memorial from the Estonian War of Independence and several gravestones in the Tallinn Military Cemetery, schoolgirls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel used explosives to destroy a Soviet war memorial in retaliation.
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On September 17th, 1939, the Soviets invaded Poland, 16 days after the Nazis invaded. The communist and Nazi armies would cooperate in dividing the country in half. The USSR also took over 200,000 Polish prisoners, many of whom were massacred the next year in the Katyn massacre.
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On February 5, 1918, the Bolsheviks issued a "Decree on Separation of Church from State and School from Church". It, amongst other things, nationalized all church property, and the government confiscated millions. Many who protested or resisted were shot, imprisoned, or executed.
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On August 21st, 1965, a new constitution was adopted in socialist Romania. It guaranteed many freedoms, such as freedom of association, *but* also made it illegal to join a fascist group. The regime would use this to shut down opposition by declaring all such groups fascist.
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On August 27th, 1966, the Red Guards went wild in the Daxing district of Beijing, targeting anyone that was considered anti-revolutionary. Over 300 people, including children and infants, were killed in five days. Methods of killing included beating, strangling, and beheading.
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On May 8th, 1990, the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic was renamed the Republic of Estonia and it's 1938 constitution from before the illegal annexation by the USSR was reinstated.
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On August 1st, 1977, 90,000 Romanian miners launched a strike in the Jiu Valley over poor pay, poor working and living conditions and other grievances. Ceaușescu promised reforms ending the strike but reneged and in the following days sent many miners to prisons or labor camps.
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I guess "Capitalism" means "Russian invasion"?
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On April 30th, 1943, Lady Passfield Beatrice Webb died. She and her husband Sidney were known for publishing "Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation?", which denied the great famine, and "The Truth About The Soviet Union", which tried to put a positive spin on Stalin's regime.
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Yes. This is how Hugo Chavez was elected, resulting in Venezuela going off a cliff and becoming a socialist nightmare.
Can socialism be achieved through elections under capitalism?
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On August 17th, 1939, Fyodor Raskolnikov, a Soviet defector, published an open letter to Stalin, berating him for repression of artists, scholars, and politicians, as well as purges and executions. He died under mysterious circumstances (falling out of a window) a month later.
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On July 27th, 1967, during the Cultural Revolution, the CCP denounced Ulanhu, Chairman of Inner Mongolia, and a purge commenced. Over 16,000 were killed and tens of thousands more were arrested and tortured, many of whom were permanently disabled.
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Actual result of socialism/Marxist-Leninism: Creation of a new dark age for Eastern Europe, most of Asia, a significant part of Africa, and a few bits of Latin America. Meanwhile the free world had another Renaissance.
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On January 3rd, 1959, Che Guevara took control of La Cabana, an old Spanish Fortress near Havana, Cuba, and converted part of it into a prison. He oversaw hundreds of executions of political prisoners there, reportedly delivering the final shot to many prisoners personally.
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On August 1st, 1944, the Warsaw uprising began against the Nazis. Although the Soviets were close, they stopped their advance refusing to even provide air or artillery support and allowed the Germans to crush the Polish resistance.
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On April 29th, 1990, cranes began tearing down the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate. The wall, which had trapped East Berliners for decades, would be fully demolished by 1994.
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On September 28th, 1939, after jointly conquering Poland, Nazi Germany and the communist USSR signed the "German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty". It included pacts on the division of Europe, and both would annex nations in their "spheres of influence" soon after.
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On August 12th, 1952, in what is called the "Night of the Murdered Poets" thirteen Jewish intellectuals, after having been arrested, imprisoned, tortured and convicted on false charges of "counterrevolutionary activity", were executed by the USSR in Lubyanka Prison in Moscow.
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On June 5th, in 1989, a day after the Chinese People's "Liberation" Army gunned down hundreds if not thousands of protestors, the still unidentified "Tank Man" briefly stopped a column of PLA tanks. The CCP still tries to censor references to him and the
#TiananmenSquareMassacre
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@DeviliciouzK
@LibertyCappy
That's something that's emerged recently. There are also plenty of Russians now denying various Soviet atrocities, despite mountains of evidence. Ideologically motivated denials.
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On May 8th, 1990, the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic was renamed the Republic of Estonia and it's 1938 constitution from before the illegal annexation by the USSR was reinstated.
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