In honour of all those who have been censored and banned from lemmy.ml communities for calling out tankie apologia / propaganda.
Interestingly, most of the removed comments are not visible in the modlog, and they are building a narrative of outrage in responses with selective quoting (as they do).
I must have hit a nerve by being polite and focusing on facts.
Keep up the fact checking, honourable lemmy people!
Congrats! How long did it take?
Probably a year or so for the ban, but they have been removing fair and reasonable comments (mine and others) that they don’t agree with forever.
There is method to their approach… it is often well coordinated, with a deliberate campaign to attack any opinions they don’t like, and censor any awkward facts.
The straw in this case was a meme where they tried to frame USSR’s invasion of the Baltics as a positive thing (leading to the dates in this meme).
In particular: Lemmy.MLers love proclaiming soviet responsibility for improving life expectancy and literacy rates … at a time when this was rapidly improving in europe and the world regardless, and it would have taken complete Incompetence for any country to not benefit from this trend. ie. Soviets didn’t fuck up this aspect, but it’s not a win outside of russia itself (which was largely a backwater at the time, for understandable reasons)
Is it true that “tankies” defeated not just the German fascist, but also the Italian, and the Japanese ones? Is that where their high death rate comes from?