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      Warsaw Pact, but yeah. It’s astounding how eagerly some people will lick boots if they’re painted red.

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        I’m referring to people who never actually lived in a communist state but claim to have witnessed first-hand all the anti-communist propaganda they’ve swallowed

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          … yeah, Ceausescu’s brutality was definitely Westoid propaganda. You caught us.

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            What are you even talking about?

            All I’m doing is predicting we’ll have someone drop in with the “oh but you never lived it like I did” bit, only to be revealed as too young to have had any meaningful life experience under the government they’re criticizing. It happens so often in threads like this it’s basically a trope.

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              What are you even talking about?

              I’m just referring to the inevitable denial and downplaying of the brutality of dictators by tankies claiming it’s all anti-Communist propaganda.

              Damn, didn’t even take a full minute after I posted this for you to start licking boots. Yikes.

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                No, I was referring to 20 year-old people as well. The difference is, they were talking about 20 year-olds who falsely claim experience in the old Soviet bloc, and I initially interpreted it as 20 year-olds who glamorize life in the old Soviet bloc against all evidence.