This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

Original Announcement thread

  • h3doublehockeysticks [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    133·
    1 year ago

    Khrushchev did literally nothing wrong. Khrushchev spent his entire time in office being the only person trying to build international communism, and basically every single good thing that happened from the 50s and until he was ousted can be traced to him.

    I am the corn stan. And unless you hate Cuba and you think apartheid and colonialism was the tits you better start putting some respect on his name.

      • h3doublehockeysticks [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        111·
        1 year ago

        I happen to hold the controversial opinion that siding with the great Satan and fascists is bad, and supporting decolonial movements and socialist movements around the world is good. Which means Nikita is literally the only good leader of a major power since the 1950s.

          • h3doublehockeysticks [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
            111·
            1 year ago

            I think they can be overblamed on him. The corncob in charge may have fucked up majorly with regards to destalinzation. I’ll even grant you that it’s 100% a bad decision and 100% his fuck up. We can even pretend he was the only guy who wanted to do and it was never gonna happen without him and he is entirely to blame. That does not in any way justify splitting the international communist movement to go play around with the US, a flawed socialist country is still better than the great Satan

        • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          71·
          1 year ago

          siding with the great Satan and fascists is bad

          Claiming they sided with fascists is fucking absurd. Don’t spread this revisionist shit all you’re doing is reinforcing anticommunism.

            • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
              51·
              1 year ago

              I read your comment as referring to the soviets not china. I still don’t understand why you even brought them into it though. It reads like trying to cause as much drama as possible.

              • h3doublehockeysticks [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
                8·
                1 year ago

                First off, obviously. Secondly I’m bringing in China because someone mentioned the split. I can’t actually follow my own thread since it won’t show me who replied to who except the newest post. Also why would I mention any bad things the Soviets did when I’m arguing that he didn’t do anything wrong.

          • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]@hexbear.netEnglish
            51·
            1 year ago

            I think they’re referring to Chinese support of the Khmer Rouge. Obviously they’re not the ones who engineered the coup that put Pol Pot’s faction in power (see America), but not siding with the USSR and Vietnam against them was a p big L.

            • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
              31·
              1 year ago

              I didn’t read it as that because it’s a really weird non sequitur. Like someone just dumping as many controversial things into the thread as possible.