• Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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    1 year ago
    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.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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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