• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    I don’t really understand the defense of the Russian Federation by contemporary communists. The Russian Federation is about as communist as the US is; if anything, it’s more fascist than the US is. Is it just a Tankie tradition to like Russia at this point?

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      10 months ago

      Russia is essentially an oil company with the added “benefit” of owning an army to protect their business interests.

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      10 months ago

      They are probably infiltrated by the borfarms too. They are as soft as a clay to form them in the needed way. I don’t know about Lemmy, but Reddit has a lot of communitites and users unironically inviting everyone to flee from woke democracies.