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usaphp ◴[14 Nov 15 02:01 UTC] No.10564013[source]▶
I don't understand how can you talk about ISIS, Nazis and Communists in the same sentence? Communism has nothing to do with violence compared to ISIS and Nazis...

Edit: Why downvotes? Idea of communism does not propose violence, Nazis and ISIS on the other hand do.

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Svip ◴[14 Nov 15 02:05 UTC] No.10564028[source]▶
I think he might be talking about Stalinism. Or at the very least, just Stalin.
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usaphp ◴[14 Nov 15 02:11 UTC] No.10564051[source]▶
So you think Stalin was as bad as ISIS and Nazis?

edit: Why downvotes? I've asked a question, I wonder how western people see Stalin in history. I as Russian see him as the one who was involved in defeating Nazis

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lemevi ◴[14 Nov 15 02:21 UTC] No.10564101[source]▶
As a Russian do you know about the purges he enforced? What is your opinion about the killing of people just for being educated or having having grievances with stalin's governing. Is it OK to kill people for disagreeing with government policies? Like even the post-Stalin soviet government had disowned him.
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1. usaphp ◴[14 Nov 15 03:15 UTC] No.10564262[source]▶
I am absolutely against that, but I am also against blatant lie and made up figures attributed to people died under Stalin's regime, just look at the comment list here, people saying any kinds of figures from 10 to 100 million deaths, so tomorrow somebody who reads this chat will pick the figure which is more appropriate to his point of view and bring it up in his discussion which will be complete lie and un-official data, which will result in more wrong opinions like that.