re: Interesting reddit thread on concentration camps from the Red Army perspective

I have a friend who was a teenager in communist Yugoslavia. the stories he tells are all I need to know about how life was truly like on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain.

Would you want to live in China today? Their system is communism2.0....Imagine what the OG's of communism were like.

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I'm not sure the USSR was "awesome" but we've also been fed decades of propaganda.

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I'm sure everyone loved the USSR. Those that were left, of course. You know, after Stalin had all dissidents starved and murdered.

Capitalism is the greatest tool for bringing people out of poverty that the world has ever seen. Communism is a failed idea that is trying to now manifest itself as a cultural movement that seeks to bring destruction to capitalism and the very foundational pillars of Western Society.

There's a reason why the vanguard didn't rise all around the world during The Great War. It's because capitalism was benefitting millions of people in the west. And when the Frankfurt School was founded and the ideas of Critical Theory came to head, it was only then that the West truly saw how terrible communism can be.

So fine, believe the USSR's and communism's horribleness to be propaganda. Willfully choose to ignore the plight and wretchedness it caused millions of people worldwide. Ignore the death and destruction it caused.

Not going to argue the USSR was great , it wasn't, Russia today isn't great for that matter, but everything falls eventually. The US could have been forever fractured 85 years into its existence in the civil war, everything is corruptible, everything is corrupted

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I'm sure it killed a shite ton of lice, which was an epidemic in Europe during that time.

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Yeah I'm sure hydrogen cyanide killed a little bit more than lice. They don't try people for war crimes then subsequently execute them for distributing delousing agents.