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Can you explain what you mean by “black” propaganda?

Not sure why they chose the name Atesh, but it is apparently the Persian word آتش meaning “fire”. It’s interesting how much Persian has shown up in and around this conflict, likely due to historical Ottoman influence in the region. Persian makes anything 1000x cooler

Sir if you don’t support defending Ukraine from fascist right-wing states like Russia then are you even left?

Hi, is can be NSFW?

You can make it NSFW?

No, it’s classic 2nd world

Fuck France, tbh

You know, I don’t like Erdogan at all. That being said, Putin is really worse than him. Like 1000x. Also, Russia is worse than the US, like 10000x. You just have absolutely no idea how much worse it is until you actually experience it.

OK now you are really confused. Please note I’m the moderator lol

You are a bit confused but that’s OK

I think duplicate submission / news

He uses some famous examples of American leftist intellectuals (to some extent) siding with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Unfortunately, it is a thing.

I’m curious about the reason too

OK so I have lived in the former USSR for a while. The USSR is not really understood by people who haven’t lived in it. The truth is in between; yes it’s not like how people in the USA had been led to believe. Not entirely. We were told most of the bad things and hardly any of the good things. However, most of what was bad about the USSR is true, but people just have a hard time understanding that it was a real place and some things about it were nice, especially if you are into that sort of thing.

That being said, the idealization and white washing of the USSR online is just absurd. All of this revisionism and fantasy by kids online thinking the USSR was wonderful and amazing, is far from reality.

It’s the same story the PRC. Lemmy is just full of whitewashing, propaganda, irrational idealizations, and so on. This post is really a case in point. “Oh Uyghurs are just going to art school and dancing. They love it!” Like I don’t even know how you can write this and not realize that you don’t live in reality. I don’t think you’re lying in purpose, but I can tell you are gullible and naive.

Chinese and Soviet propagandists have an answer for everything. If you take their word for it they’ll have you believe it is all rainbows and unicorns. The problem is, it just isn’t how they say it is. Too much spin, too many lies, and lots of people desperately wishing it was all true.