My first months on Lemmy were spent on Lemmy.world, which was the biggest instance at the time. I had no experience with Hexbear because .world had defederated that instance. I sometimes saw it being described as a "tankie" instance, but it was nothing specific.

After I moved to .zip, I came across !games@hexbear.net, which seemed to be free from anything overtly political and reminded me of r/Gamingcirclejerk, so I subscribed to it and occasionally made comments related to gaming.

Today I made multiple comments to a post about an article on the STALKER game developers having removed the Soviet symbols and the Russian audio in the remastered edition of the game. I would argue that in the thread, there were no comments from me that could be construed by a reasonable person as defensive of Nazism, fascism, or even hinting at it. For example, in one of the comments, I linked a Ukrainian law that prohibits the use of Nazi symbols, though I highly advise looking through all my ten comments as to avoid any misunderstanding or false impressions.

Conversely, one comment posted by another user dismissed Holodomor as Nazi propaganda, which I reported, but a moderator of that community just ended up calling me out for that and taking no action, followed by them banning me.

The thread containing all of my untouched posts is still available via lemmy.zip. My comments are also available for viewing via my user page. They are not available on hexbear due to the ban.

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[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

they targeted specific groups of people often as well. Soviet union conducted genocide on a mass scale and its entire point was same as nazis: take over large parts of europe and replace their populations with russians. Unless you are explaining to ukranians that holodomor was okay and just an accident, bro, dont worry, I wasnt calling you names. And those who I did call names deserve it.

Commies are literally palette swapped nazis.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

take over large parts of europe and replace their populations with russians

I'd need sources for something like that. There's one "large part of Europe", namely a piece of East Prussia now called Kaliningrad Oblast, where that happened.

The rest of East Prussia was ethnically cleansed in favor of Lithuanians and Poles. Both nations don't seem eager to fix that, and you don't seem eager to mention that.

And other areas were ethnically cleansed of Germans, Hungarians in favor of Poles, Czechs, Romanians.

There was also a mutual "population exchange" between Western Ukraine and Poland, where Poles were resettled from Ukraine to western areas of Poland cleansed from Germans, and Ukrainians from Poland were resettled to Ukraine. Ethnic cleansing as well.

Except for the first and the last things mentioned, those weren't initiated by the USSR. Like the name "Benes decrees" kinda hints, being literally connected to Czechoslovakia, but in fact sometimes used for all of those crimes in Eastern Europe after the war.

Commies are literally palette swapped nazis.

No. In the USSR itself after Stalin they loved to low-key compare Stalin's USSR to Nazi Germany, doesn't make it true.

The kind of people who'd want Stalin back were a rarity, it seems, in the USSR itself after his death, unlike now in Russia. It was common knowledge, confirmed by party assemblies and many people being let out of prisons and rehabilitated, that repressions happened and were terrible, and that they shouldn't happen again. It was also common knowledge, confirmed by official ideology as if that were needed, that war is terrible and no sane person wants war, and starting a war is unthinkable.

And even Stalin's USSR wasn't as similar to Nazi Germany as you think.

After Stalin it was the same leftist ideology, about workers having jobs and food on table, peaceful united humanity reaching for the stars, civilization and knowledge. Just with a memory of trauma and a belief in planning and centralism.

During Stalin it was about heroics and sacrifices made to have the same somewhere in far future, but that first a powerful socialist state should be built to demonstrate the advantages of socialism, and for that a lot of things could be considered necessary.

Before Stalin it was the same leftist ideology with too much trust into its success.

Sacrifices and heroics are typical for fascism, but not similar otherwise at all.

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hear a lot of ignoring mass murders and genocide here by some literal nobody who knows nothing.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You hear the sound of your own brain asking for fuel to actually function.