The USSR did deport ethnic minorities due to confirmed or suspected collaboration with the Nazis, and while this obviously wasn’t a great thing, most of the time it made some kind of sense and was because of what I call “the cold calculus of war/suffering”

Despite it being horrible, it’s “better” for 5-10 percent of the population that’s deported to die on the way, than for 40 percent or more for the population to be murdered by the nazis.

I also think that the fact that the USSR didn’t help or actively stalled and prevented people from returning to their homelands was disgusting and wrong, but I’m wary of those statements since they come from neoliberal sources.

I don’t want to dismiss claims because they come from neoliberals, because I have integrity, but I also don’t think we should trust every claim they make.

I think that out of all the ethnic deportations, the Tatars went too far the most. Neoliberals do downplay the nazi infiltration and intimidation that was done to the tatars, but I’ve read that the Stalin primarily wanted the Black Sea region for geographical purposes, which the Tatars and other groups were part of him.

This isn’t to say that the neoliberal accusations are completely true, I don’t buy that, and this isn’t to forget the memory of tens of thousands of heroic Tatar Soviet soldiers.

Maybe I’m missing something, but what made you say qualify your statement of him not being a great person?

From what I read, the organization had serious problems with homophobia and sexism. But that’s not an indictment of the organization, it’s goals, or it’s achievements as a whole, and members of the Black Panthers did actively fight against reactionary thought in the group.

I also read that despite handing out documents and quotations from Marx, Lenin and Mao to members, that some members have claimed the organization didn’t make Communism as front and center as it should have been, but again that could just be anecdotal claims.

I don’t think Ukraine being given concessions was the problem, and I don’t think the existence of Ukraine is a problem either. The problem is that the country is currently being used as a fleshlight battering ram against the Global South.

Right. And numerous Jewish people in the Southwest Asian region were supporters of socialism/the USSR, so with the west being a rival power and having evil intentions, I think Stalin assumed that Israel could exist as an independent and allied socialist state that resisted arab dictatorships and western imperialism.

And then it turned out that the Kibbutz of Israel was a result of cultural appropriation of arabic traditions.

I read that the USSR’s position was that Israel and/or Palestine shouldn’t be subject to a trusteeship, because it would put the people of the region at the whim of the west in an exploitative and fragile partnership, and the USSR only agreed to a trusteeship because it was in the best position to do so.

While I hesitate to speak on this topic, given that it’s already a super-contentious topic among historians (that’s saying alot) the best from what I can gather is that while Lenin agreed that Zionism is a disgusting ideology of racial supremacy, Lenin’s time had come and gone decades ago, and he more or less “served his purpose” in helping overthrow the Tsar and create the USSR.

Because of the tremendous horrors of the holocaust/WW2, my best estimation is that the USSR/Stalin felt that since many other ethnicities had their own “home country”, that opposing a home country for Jewish people would be hypocritical and wrong and lacking in empathy, and that if Jewish people didn’t deserve a secure home country, then no one did.

I think that Stalin’s support for the state of Israel was an example of what Stalin thought was pragmatic realpolitik, and would help the USSR be considered a potential ally and savior of Jews, and oppressed people across the world.

The Arab/Southwest Asian countries at the time were often repressive and reactionary dictatorships, that especially enjoyed the support of the U.S./Britain, and I can understand the genuine worry and concern that the West would inflame tensions to create a second holocaust and make Arabs into the bad guys and supremacists.

I think sympathize with Stalin’s decision, and I think that hindsight is 20/20. I’m not arab, I’m Latino. This is just my best guess.

Of course, backup and fault tolerance and diversity is always needed. I have read though that with improvements in technology, renewable energy is already better at being stored than fossil fuels.

I think Google translate does a decent job

I feel like most of this “plan” is just a return to status quo. The deal says nothing about acknowledging and educating Israeli’s about the horrors of the Nakba and Zionism, or about apologizing for it’s crimes and genocide, or about recognizing Palestinian statehood, just about Israel still having the region in a chokehold.

Or even a tenth of the shit.

According to recent studies, solar power is now cheaper or on a pathway to becoming comparatively cheaper than oil/fossil fuels very soon. Theoretically, if you were appointed to be the leader of a completely new country and given all the resources to start one, it would now be way cheaper and faster to use solar panels out of the gate, with no need for fossil fuels. 100 percent renewable and still have multiple backup systems and alternative green fuel sources.

Biden is alot of things, but I think ultimately he is empty posturing. That coward wouldn’t risk his last few years.

I can understand Russia’s reticence, given that the U.S. is always foaming at the mouth to do something horrifically evil and aggressive, and the U.S. will fucking consider a pigeon landing on a NATO commander’s head to be a Russian plot. But you’re right in that Russia in hindsight should have gone more tit for tat.

I don’t think Zelenskyy is guaranteed to die or be arrested, but I don’t think he’ll get off scott free either.

I highly doubt we’ll die in a nuclear fire, and I’m 90 percent sure than saner heads will prevail. I highly doubt the west all actually do anything over Ukraine.

I would love Chinese, Cuban, DPRK troops and Congolese socialists to show up suddenly and propel the UkraNazis.

I assume you are referring to Xiangyu? I hate that mindless hanjian MAGA-“Communist” bootlicker.

Wait, MangoPress is PatSoc? That’s disappointing

I thought Pamphlets was anti-LGBT? I swear I remember seeing tweets of theirs that came off that way.

I like those tweets you linked though

I think that account is affiliated with or a member of the “PatSoc”/MAGA-Communism “movement”

That being said, and I realize the humor in this meme, but funko pops are literally made and sold in China