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Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · Sep 22

The atrocities of both the Soviet communist and Nazi regimes were crimes against humanity. Surprisingly, those who oppose the latter often whitewash the former.

Full text: www.levandehistoria.se/sites/defaul...

For some time it has been entirely conceivable to state publicly that Josef Stalin did run terror campaigns that robbed many Soviet citizens of their lives, yet at the same time created the embryo of the Soviet welfare state and defeated Hitler’s Nazi Germany. However, it has not been conceivable to even suggest that Hitler was not only the perpetrator of genocide, but also built motorways and ensured that the German people had employment. This relationship says something about the conditions under which Nazi and communist history is communicated. It is enough to look up more or less any history textbook to ascertain that the communist and Nazi leader figures and their crimes have been presented and evaluated in extremely different ways by future generations.

The introductory sentences above should not be applicable to either of these cases, even if there is firm historical evidence that both dictators did actually gain significant popularity in the 1930s through promotion of economic and social development for broad swathes of the population, and in a more general sense, largescale terror activities went hand in hand with strong socio-political dynamics in terror societies like those of Nazi Germany and the communist Soviet Union. There is an immediate risk that the juxtaposition of one ‘good’ and one ‘evil’ policy makes this history appear as a zero-sum game, where the negative aspect – a regime’s unprecedented use of violence – can be balanced by or even compensated for by the aspects of that regime’s practice and results that seemed at the time or seem in hindsight to be positive.

So is it not also immoral to compare communism and Nazism, as ideologies, as movements and as regimes that perpetrated crimes against humanity? Is it possible to do this without automatically arousing suspicion that the atrocities perpetrated by Hitler and the Nazi regime are to be covered up or minimised? The idea that there could be suspicions of the opposite is hardly current. One important difference is that a comparison of this nature is not as closed and conditioned as the previous one. Rather, it allows room for many more alternatives and interpretations. The thought process involved in comparing communism and Nazism is not a zero-sum game. It has every chance of leading to the conclusion that two evil things are being compared.

Nonetheless, for many reflective people, the comparison is challenging, since it risks getting ‘locked’ into the fundamental difference between the good intentions and evil intentions established at the beginning of this text, and into the fear of a single-track approach that places the two regimes on a par. At the same time, this comparison is urgent and important, partly because it is carried out in practice, indeed to a greater extent in our time, and partly because it responds to a scientific need and interest in understanding and explaining the most significant phenomena of contemporary history, both individually and in their wider context. A comparison promotes both perspectives and helps us to pose new questions, establish new perspectives, and clarify unspoken assumptions in the academic community. There is an intrinsic comparative challenge in comparing the type of mass brutality ordered by Stalin and Hitler on a European battlefield hit by revolution, civil war, world war and major social upheaval.

Reposted by Kamil

H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 12h

Rez: S. I. Zhuk: KGB Operations against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine, 1953–1991

https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-143786

S. I. Zhuk: KGB Operations against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine, 1953–1991

www.hsozkult.de

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 1d

Wealth taxes are back on the agenda – and Prof Richard Murphy shows why the data demands them.

200 years of evidence: capitalism funnels wealth upward unless govts intervene. So what's stopping them?

His must-read analysis👇

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @richardjmurphy.bsky.social with thanks

How capitalism drives inequality: and how to stop it

Wealth taxes are on Rachel Reeves’ agenda. Thomas Piketty has shown why it matters, and how we could stop the growth of inequality

eastangliabylines.co.uk

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 1d

What part of "they never let their loved ones go hungry" you don't understand?

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

Wanna see the labels on our own profile plus the lists you're on? Sraight up hate speech antiukrainian drama disinfo tankie hitlerite conspiracy dimwits combo.

Not that I am surprised.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

Taking evolutionary perspective works wonders, lots of questions became simply irrelevant.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

Reading between the lines is not your strongest asset, Tom.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

A screenshot. That's awesome.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, those tears on your face, its actually piss... Anyway. The list of labels you've earned by flooding the world with that poorly remixed word salad is impressive. Reaching a level of a Russian nazi-worshipping disinfo superspreading drenched in piss septic tank cunt automata? True web 3.0 elite 🫠

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

What makes you think so?

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

Because things are not always what they seem to be
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Naugrith's comment on "Was Winston Churchill partly responsible for the Bengal Famine of 1943?"

Explore this conversation and more from the AskHistorians community

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

Od course, when coerced, ppl will agree to live under any imposed conditions. It's just a matter of resources needed to replace one system with another and to maintain permanent control over the unsubordinated masses. The security apparatus has been always a priority investment for new regimes.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

Several regimes murdered and terrorized ppl under this very banner on their path to communism. This is why both the symbol and the system have such bad reputation outside communist fandom. But the visual identity is above all, rright? And only victims of capitalism/nazism deserve respect.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

Not the most accurate source, tbf

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

No

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

Ussr was on the path to communism then. Nowhere near the idea outlined by Marx. Like all the other fellow travellers...

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

No, it's still a flawed but democratic country.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

I evaluate communism by the way it materialized, not by the definition. Somehow it always led to antidemocratic, brutal rule and terror.

I'd call myself a social democrat.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

Is the US a true fascist state? Has it ever been one? No. Putting it above USSR is not a pro-fascist choice.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

You're discussing with a few ppl who basically oppose all forms of authoritarianism and political violence, communism, nazism and capitalism included.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

This is how you see the political spectrum, forms of governance, human rights, freedom, social justice, state control, projection of power, participation, interventionism, role of citizens, legal fundaments, leadership, etc. This naive, simplified model was built to support your private beliefs.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

Why don't you post a link to an indepth analysis of the political situation at that time, the motivations of the elites, local referendums? Full picture is needed.

libgen.ac/book/15555821

The Strategic Use of Referendums: Power, Legitimacy, and Democracy | Libgen

Referendums—the direct popular vote on an issue—appear to be the most democratic of decision mechanisms because the voice of the people is directly he...

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

Let's hope we'll be presented with calculations for the minimum, medium and maximum estimate of deaths.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

That's true, need to work on my meme-finding methodology. Your immediate reaction and micro-hysteria prove how much you value truth. That's impressive!
For the record, I've already provided an alternative image. Here's another one, also taken in Katyń forest.
Enjoy the meme, comrades.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

The world reduced to meme wars.

Kamil @promieniowanie.bsky.social · 2d

I say it's a deuce