They actually put that guy in jail? Didn’t expect that to happen tbh.
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What’s the context behind this? I’ve seen this same face as an emoji on Hexbear, but I don’t know what the actual context is.
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, I’m experiencing the same problem. Also, I tried to subscribe to that community, and instead of “Joined”, it just says “Subscription is active”, like this:
I wonder if that might be related. Though, I believe that also happened when I tried subscribing to !askchapo@hexbear.net, but after checking again, I am subscribed to that community now.
EDIT: I guess the most “correct” place to ask would be !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml, but I understand not wanting to engage with lemmy.ml considering how annoying it has gotten after the Reddit invasion.
Like, multiple pictures in one post? (I am still rather reluctant to click on a Reddit link, so apologies if I got it wrong, will click on it in that case.) Can you not do that by putting one “main” picture with the “Image” button, and put the other ones in the post body? I’m bad at words, so here are some red circles to show the buttons (desktop Lemmy, it might look different on mobile or in app):
Could you directly post the meme here instead of linking R*ddit? Some of us would rather not visit that website, especially since the Teddit frontend is no longer an option due to the API limits.
9·1 year agoLooks like something metallic in this video.
(part two)
Finally, the text, where they quote some actual authors. But not the page or even the book this is from, so basically impossible to verify and get some context. For the extreme claims they make, the burden of proof is on the article authors, not on us.
Anyway, let’s look at what exactly they even say:
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In April 1919 Lenin signed a decree to create a concentration camp system copied by the Tsarist Katorga, which in 1916 numbered almost 20,000 inmates, according to figures published by Stephen G. Wheatcroft. The new network of concentration camps was named Glávnoie upravlenie ispravítelno-trudovyj lagueréi i koloni (Directorate-General for Labor Camps). It was the birth of the Gulag, the largest Soviet system of repression. The first of those camps had been established in 1918 at Solovki, on the Solovetsky islands of the Black Sea. Again the figures of the communist dictatorship ended up far exceeding those of tsarism in a short time: at the end of 1920 there were already 84 camps with some 50,000 political prisoners. In October 1923 there were already 315 camps with 70,000 prisoners. Those detained there were used in forced labor as slave labor. The prison population had very high death rates, due to the harsh conditions in these brutal detention centers, where prisoners were often starved or killed by their guardians.
After reading through the loaded language, it seems that they are surprised there are a lot of prisoners in the gulag during the civil war, and that the conditions were harsh. That’s all they’re really saying. Except, I guess, for this sentence:
The prison population had very high death rates, due to the harsh conditions in these brutal detention centers, where prisoners were often starved or killed by their guardians.
I vaguely remember reading that the gulags did not actually have very high death rates. I don’t remember the source, unfortunately. It seems to be a rather popular claim, so if you’re doing a debunking for yourself, you might want to try to find some reading on it.
The next two claims are ones where I’m not educated enough to know what actually happened. So, you might also want to research these two events.
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The strikes were also bloodied down. On March 16, 1919, Cheka stormed the Putilov factory, where its workers had gone on strike six days earlier, accusing the Bolshevik government of having become a dictatorship: 900 workers were arrested, and 200 executed without trial. Violent repression, imprisonment, hostage-taking and mass murder were the methods most used by the Bolsheviks to quell these strikes, both in the factories and in the fields. On January 29, 1920, in the face of strikes by workers in the Urals region, Lenin sent a telegram to Vladimir Smirnov encouraging the use of mass murder against strikers: “I am surprised that you take the matter so lightly and do not immediately execute a large number of strikers for the crime of sabotage.” These methods were even used to quell the protests of workers when they were forced to work on Sunday, as happened in Tula, a malaise that the Bolsheviks simply attributed to a “counter-revolutionary conspiracy forged by Polish spies.” It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of rebel workers and peasants were executed between 1918 and 1922.
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In the late 1920s Lenin approved of the mass murder of 50,000 “white” and civilian prisoners in Crimea, shot or by hanging, in one of the largest massacres of the Russian Civil War. The victims of this crime had surrendered, according to Robert Gellately, after the Bolshevik promise that there would be an amnesty for them if they surrendered.
The Dimitry Pospielovsky guy they cite for the alleged brutality against the priests (paragraph below) seems rather questionable as a source.
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With the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 a systematic religious persecution began which would, throughout the history of the USSR, involve the murder of between 12 and 20 million Christians. In 1914 the Russian Orthodox Church had 55,173 churches, 29,593 chapels, 550 monasteries and 475 convents: the vast majority of them were closed and destroyed by the Communists. Something similar happened with the 5,000 Jewish synagogues and the 25,000 Muslim mosques that were in Russian territory in 1917. Before the Revolution there were also 112,629 priests and deacons and 95,259 monks and nuns of the Orthodox Church. The Communists unleashed brutal persecution against them. According to Yakovlev, some 3,000 priests, religious and nuns were already killed in 1918 alone with methods as brutal as those mentioned above. Many lay people were harassed, tortured, detained and killed. Historian Dimitry V. Pospielovsky reported the Reds’ brutality against priests with cases such as the following:
Here’s the Russian Wikipedia link for him (English Wikipedia doesn’t have much), the guy worked for “Free Russia” and “Radio Svoboda”. (Yes, I know Wikipedia is not a credible source, but I doubt they’d lie about the guy’s affiliations.) Literal CIA outlets. Can be dismissed out of hand.
The other guy they cite is Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev. Here’s his Wikipedia. Maybe less unhinged than literal CIA, but still doesn’t exactly seem unbiased. Can’t dismiss every single thing he wrote out of hand per se, but considering the fact they don’t cite book and page so that we could look at the context and the sources, the burden of proof is still on them.
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If the Okhrana had been characterized by its brutal methods, the communist Cheka exceeded in every way the degree of cruelty of its tsarist predecessor. Among its methods of torture and assassination against political dissidents, Orthodox clerics and others considered enemies by the Bolsheviks, it is worth mentioning savages such as the following, documented by the Russian historian Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev and by the State Archives of the Russian Federation, among others sources:
I hope any of this is helpful to you. At least that would mean that the hours I just spent on commenting on some worthless Spanish conservative site’s drivel (notice that one paragraph where they excuse Franco in this very article) were at least somewhat worth it.
I’m not a historian, but from a cursory reading of this article, I think these could be some starting points. (Going to post several comments, since Lemmy isn’t letting me post my single long comment, it just keeps loading and loading and doesn’t acutally send.)
Notice how for some parts, the only sources are quotes from Bolsheviks themselves, with a lot of talk around them to provide the wrong context, like this pretty amusing one at the start (putting them all inside spoilers because I don’t like large paragraphs of reactionary drivel disrupting the flow of my comment):
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Shortly before that communist revolution, in the summer of 1917 Lenin wrote a book, “The State and Revolution”, outlining what his dictatorship would be like. Among other considerations, the future despot tugged at the grossest demagoguery and lashed out at parliamentary democracy:
“Deciding once in a certain number of years which members of the ruling class are to oppress and crush the people in Parliament: this is the true essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in the parliamentary constitutional monarchies, but in the most democratic republics.”
Or this one; read carefully and you will notice that nowhere does this quote support the article’s assertion in the paragraph right above it that the famine was done intentionally.
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One of the most dramatic episodes of Lenin’s dictatorship was the Russian famine of 1921 and 1922, which affected some 27 million people and killed between 3 and 5 million, and which was caused, in large part, by the mass requisitions of grain ordered by the Bolsheviks, the so-called Prodrazvyorstka (copied and expanded by the Communists, like other things, from the Razvyorstka, the requisition of tsarist grain in the First World War). The requisitioned grain was often used for export. This extermination through hunger was not accidental or that the Bolshevik dictatorship tried to avoid: it was done intentionally and even sought with it an anti-religious purpose, as Lenin wrote in a letter from Lenin to the Politburo on March 19, 1922:
“Now and only now, when people consume themselves in famine-stricken areas and hundreds, if not thousands, of corpses lie on the roads, we can (and therefore must) pursue the removal of church property with the most energy frenzied and ruthless and do not hesitate to quell the least opposition. (…) We must pursue the elimination of church property by any means necessary to secure a fund of several hundred million gold rubles (do not forget the immense wealth of some monasteries and lauras). (…) All considerations indicate that we will not do it later, because at no other time, apart from desperate hunger, will it give us that state of mind among the general mass of peasants that would guarantee the sympathy of this group, or, at least , would assure us the neutralization of this group in the sense that victory in the fight for the elimination of church property, unquestionably and completely, will be on our side.”
And right after that, they quote the black book of communism. Writing its title in French. I wonder whether that’s a coincidence, or whether even they know that the black book isn’t credible and try to hide that they’re citing it. It should be well-known enough that it isn’t credible that you don’t need to do your own work investigating it and can dismiss it out of hand:
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This use of famines as a method of achieving political objectives had already been advanced by Lenin in 1891, when he refused to collaborate with a campaign to help the hungry in the city of Samara. According to Lenin, hunger has “numerous positive consequences”, since “it destroys not only faith in the Tsar, but also in God” (quoted by Stéphane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Panné, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek and Jean-Louis Margolin in “Le livre noir du communisme”, 1997).
Then there are quotes like this. You could of course try to check whether it is real and what is the context, but without looking that far, it seems like a reasonable course of action to take for a revolution desperately fighting for its survival. The article is framing this as some unique evil as if any other army wouldn’t have killed deserters.
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The Red Army suffered 3 million defections in 1919 and 1920. The first year, 500,000 deserters were arrested by the Cheka, and almost 800,000 the second. Thousands of them were killed, and their families were often taken hostage and killed to blackmail deserters. A typical Cheka report stated the following:
“Yaroslavl Province, June 23, 1919. The uprising of deserters on the Petropavlovskaya volost has been quelled. The families of the deserters have been taken hostage. When we started shooting at one person in each family, the Greens started to come out of the woods and surrendered. Thirty-four deserters were shot as an example.”
Once you dismiss that part, there is the other half of the article, the one that alleges a lot of atrocities committed by the Bolsheviks.
I used tineye.com to reverse image search one of the pictures from that article, the one captioned “In the foreground, the body of the telegraph operator Ponomarenko in the Cheka of Kharkiv”. Guess what I found? Look here. The pictures are at the bottom of this page, with the captions in the article being a translation of the Russian captions of the pictures in this thing. What is this thing? It seems to be a reprint/digitalization something captioned:
ОТДЕЛ ПРОПАГАНДЫ ОСОБОГО СОВЕЩАНИЯ ПРИ ГЛАВНОКОМАНДУЮЩЕМ ВООРУЖЕННЫМИ СИЛАМИ НА ЮГЕ РОССИИ, ЧАСТЬ ИНФОРМАЦИОННАЯ, 29 июня 1919 года, № 4338, г. Екатеринодар
СВОДКА СВЕДЕНИЙ О ЗЛОДЕЯНИЯХ И БЕЗЗАКОНИЯХ БОЛЬШЕВИКОВ № 19
which translates (sorry if I got something wrong, I’m not particularly knowledgeable about military terms, but the general menaing should be there):
PROPAGANDA DEPARTMENT OF THE SPECIAL CONFERENCE UNDER THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE ARMED FORCES ON THE SOUTH OF RUSSIA, INFORMATION DETACHMENT, 29 June 1919, № 4338, Yekaterinodar
REPORT ON THE EVIL DOINGS AND LAWLESSNESS OF THE BOLSHEVIKS № 19
So literal white army propaganda. Not exactly the most credible source.
This doesn’t mean that there never were any excesses committed by the Cheka. But obviously the white army has an interest in depicting their enemy as extremely violent, excessive, and plain evil.
5·1 year agoChloe and her Eevee, from Pokémon.
Didn’t have the time or motivation to watch or read other fiction in the last couple years. I guess that’s why. And also Eevee is very cute.
23·1 year ago!leftsthetics@lemmygrad.ml moderator here (though rather inactive lately). I agree, this is not how the community is supposed to be used. No-one said anything about it for a long time, so I figured everyone else was okay with it and kept it up.
So, how exactly to proceed now? It would be good to message the user and ask them to direct their posts to a more fitting community like !latino_marxista@lemmygrad.ml which they already moderate. Problem is, I don’t speak Spanish. Does anyone on here speak Spanish and could write such message?
Just “authoritarian traits” sounds like a total understatement.
LMAO at all the liberals from lemmy.world already upset at this meme in the comment section, just an hour after it was posted
Cope and seethe
Any resources on what the concept of youth liberation is and how it might be implemented? This is the first time I’ve heard of it… (Yes, I know I could look it up, but considering how search engines can be biased or low-quality, I would rather ask someone already familiar with the concept.)
Reject modernity
Embrace tradition
For the non-nerds among us
Bottom logo is X11, an old but still widely-used windowing system for UNIX systems.) This new Twitter logo feels like a total ripoff of that.
Who is this guy? Does he have any actual influence or is he just some idiot on Twitter?
What is “a terrorist state” supposed to be anyway? Doing anything America doesn’t approve of is terrorism?
I’m not reading through that entire article (which is just Twitter discourse in article form), but honestly, that question itself seems badly posed.
Obviously, socialists aren’t going to introduce a policy like “No more bananas” or “We must have bananas at any costs”. In a country where bananas don’t grow, availability of bananas will depend on desire to import bananas, and another country being willing to sell you bananas. I vaguely remember something about bananas being rare in the GDR because there were few friendly countries that grew bananas (though that might have been an anti-communist source, or plain made up, I don’t know, but it doesn’t sound too unrealistic). Availability of bananas will depend on the circumstances you’re building socialism under.
From that article:
Although he does not identify as a “degrowther,” Harris rejects the “pro-growth” left’s suggestion that the American consumer’s preferences are sacrosanct.
I have no idea what this discourse is, but this line bothers me so much. Imagine caring about “American consumer’s preferences”. This is so stupid. If socialism ever somehow manages to take power in the USA, they really must work on changing societal attitude. US society, its values, its ways of thought reflect the worst that capitalism and imperialism have to offer. Socialism cannot succeed if these ways of thought go unaddressed. And whatever bullshit led to “I am consoomer and I am owed banana” is one of the things that have to go.
The most important question facing the American left today.
If true, that says much more about the state of the American left than it does about the importance of the question.
I see. I actually think it’s good you posted this on here, so that we all are aware that there might be problems/downtime in relation to this and possibly a domain change. I’m sorry if I sounded too annoyed in my previous comment, that was annoyance at some of the Redditor types over there, not annoyance at you.
Does the FMHY owner have any information on what exactly happened? Did they get notified that the registration for their .ml domain got canceled? Any stated reasons? Or it just stopped loading one day and they figured that it’s related to that? It would be good to know, for deciding how big of a concern it really is for Lemmy. (Sorry if all this is a stupid question, I’m not sure how exactly domain registration works.)
I’m also kind of confused when this taking back is happening. The FMHY post says “ongoing”, while the domainincite.com article makes it seem like it’s a thing in the near future. Any actual sources (especially any official statement by the entities involved) would be good. Searching for phrases like “Mali taking back .ml TLD” or “Mali TLD transfer” doesn’t find me anything.
Though it does find this weird cluster of recent articles suddenly complaining about people misspelling .mil as .ml:
(spoiler because the image takes up too much vertical space)
It’s a bit, we like to joke about Guaido declaring himself leader of everything - this is not the first joke like this I’ve seen on this site. It’s funny because if he declared himself the new leader of Wagner, that’d have as much sense and legitimacy as his declaration that he is “interim president” of Venezuela, which is to say, none at all.