• 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I don’t get how “we gotta bomb a dead guy whose political ideas we’ve beaten 30 years ago” is supposed to appeal to anyone

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      1. because the ideas themselves weren’t defeated. only a single physical manifestation of them (the USSR).

      2. because the cruelty is the point

      as a side note. I wanna say that real Leninheads know that Lenin didn’t want to be embalmed anyway. so destroying his mausoleum would actually be a win for him.

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        I just don’t get the reverse pyrrhic victory here where you’ve won everything, wholesale, no downsides for you and also can’t ever admit it.

        Like bomb Ho-Chi-Minhs grave or something at least Vietnams still communist

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      Still bitter about the defeat in 1945. Nazism was rebranded as NATO after that, but the goals and the appeals remain the same for their supporters.