• poopkins@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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    Both of those claims are very contested, surely we can agree on that? Western journalists in the region reported in real time during that period that both these events were driven by Russian operatives. I’m not quick to believe everything I read, but that goes both ways.

    The fact that you use “Banderite government”—or “Banderite” at all—and so openly support the Soviet Union to me calls your motivation into question, so yes, I certainly find your position and arguments extremely odd.

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      Western journalists also widely reported on the events I stated, before the entry of Russia into the Ukrainian Civil War. The west has since censored Russian speech from the eyes of westerners, and self-censored the problems with the Ukrainian government that they so widely reported on prior to 2022.

      As for the fact that I oppose Banderite fascists, and support socialism, that makes perfect sense considering I told you that I’m a communist. I devote a significant portion of my free time and disposable income to participating in that movement, though not in Russia or Europe at all. My motivation should be the clearest thing in this thread for you!

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        Your comments could only make sense to me if you believe both:

        1. that there is systematic, conspiratorial censorship of western journalism at an international level, and
        2. that the Soviet Union was a model communist state.
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          1 is unquestionably correct, it’s how private media operates. As for 2, the idea of a “model communist state” is flawed thinking. Socialist countries like the USSR are not necessarily “models,” each has their own problems that come from existing in the real world, and not our heads. I support socialism, and the workers that make the world. The historical USSR fell into that category, and now the mantle is held by the PRC, DPRK, Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba.

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            I can only very simply state that I vehemently disagree on both points.

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              That’s not entirely true. You could try to present an argument for why. If that’s not possible, perhaps you should do some more digging on your own? Maybe expand your understanding?

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              It’s definitely immensely difficult to come to terms with the fact that privately owned media controls most of what most people see and know about the rest of the world. You could call it a conspiracy