@p @Nimbius666 …the dumber it gets.
> either lost to fascists
be a German Communist in Germany
tell your son what’s going on in the world, tell about how workers defended their power in Russia
tell how there are bolsheviks who achieved this
tell your son, that if the nazis come to power, they’ll be glad to lay ten more millions of Germans into the earth for their profits
it’s 1932 outside
come to a peaceful demonstration with your comrades
an assault squad out of nowhere is attacking you
they are armed, and none of you are
police comes
takes the side of the assault squad
you die in the clash from a bullet

In my opinion, trying to act peacefully is a police state is doomed to fail. On the other hand, since there was no means like instant messaging and sekrit telegram channels, it was easy for the state to hush the information, and continuing to kill the activists. If you have a better idea how to use your right for free speech in a situation like this, I’m all ears.

> …or, once they got power, were indistinguishable from fascists.
Yeah I can just see Lenin gassing everyone doing commerce, down to kids selling hand-made lemonade. I can just see Stalin whispering to Roosevelt on the eve of the Cold war: “Hey, buddy, you need to invade Brasil, so much oil, hmm!” while glaring at Alaska and thinking how good Russians would live on those southern latitudes… if only the land would be somehow cleared from the Americans…
 Yet Roosevelt half-jokingly said to his assistant, that he’d be fine, if all the matters of the world would be relayed to Churchill, Uncle Joe, and him.
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