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GunnerJ
Aug 1, 2005

Do you think this is funny?

Typo posted:

I don't think believing in communism makes you a rapist no

OK. So I'm not really sure what the relevance of all this stuff about the Red Army is then. Like yeah there was a loving awful amount of rape on the Eastern Front that the Red Army did. And?

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Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes
basically the tankies gets fixated on the red army because "communism defeated nazism" is one of their primary justifications for the soviet union so one you start slandering the red army with anti-soviet agitation they'll literally go "poo poo happens" in response to pointing out the mass rapes of underaged girls by red army soldiers

comrade pener goes one step further and call it nazi propaganda which i think is pretty entertaining cuz this is prob the closest im gonna get to interact with someone who think's he's a political commissar from the 1940s in 2017

Typo fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Nov 11, 2017

tapine
Sep 3, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

Typo posted:

basically the tankies gets fixated on the red army because "communism defeated nazism" is one of their primary justifications for the soviet union so one you start slandering the red army with anti-soviet agitation they'll literally go "poo poo happens" when it comes to pointing out the mass rapes of underaged girls by red army soldiers

comrade pener goes one step further and call it nazi propaganda which i think is pretty entertaining cuz this is prob the closest im gonna get to interact with someone who think's he's a political commissar from the 1940s in 2017
do you really think that's the primary justification for the soviet union haha

GunnerJ
Aug 1, 2005

Do you think this is funny?

Typo posted:

basically the tankies gets fixated on the red army because "communism defeated nazism" is one of their primary justifications for the soviet union so one you start slandering the red army with anti-soviet agitation they'll literally go "poo poo happens" when it comes to pointing out the mass rapes of underaged girls by red army soldiers

So then, you do think there's something significant to Communism about the Red Army's rapes on the Eastern Front? I mean if not, what's the point of pointing this out to tankies? I think it'd be reasonable for them to assume that you're trying to lay those crimes at the feet of Communism specifically, in which case "No, this is a thing that happens in any war" seems like a reasonable response. Unless you can argue that there is something specific about these wartime rapes that can only be explained by Communism. I really just don't get what your point here is otherwise.

(I don't know why I am capitalizing "Communism" but it feels weird to stop now.)

Autism Sneaks
Nov 21, 2016
I think the only one here fixated on the Red Army and, less charitably for them I might add, rape (which has now become underage rape because that's more transgressive and they're a gross troll man) is.. Typo

tapine
Sep 3, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
the red army doing terrible things is more down to it being an army than it being red

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

tapine posted:

the red army doing terrible things is more down to it being an army than it being red

Yes, and it also committed one of the worst mass rapes in history

I don't see any part of this thread where anyone blamed the ideology of communism for this

Red Dad Redemption
Sep 29, 2007

Yossarian-22 posted:

Yes, and it also committed one of the worst mass rapes in history

I don't see any part of this thread where anyone blamed the ideology of communism for this

it was thrown out as a fact in the lf thread, so, while there has also been suggestion that the factual claim was not as strong as asserted, people are essentially asking “ok, what do you want us to infer / conclude from this?”, which seems like a reasonable question

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

Fair enough. It just seemed to me that typo started this off by reading a modern account of Berlin in 1945 and people went batshit

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes
ok fine, i admit it

this wasn't me idling posting poo poo about a history book i read on a shitposting forum, this was actually an organized conspiracy where i'm assisting nazi germany to launch a Barbarossa on proud stalinist safe space thread. I admit that i engaged in terrorist activities, organized kulak uprisings and prepared for Whiteguard kulak uprisings against members of the Political Bureau, against the leadership of the Party and the Soviet power. In Court I admitted and still admit my guilt in respect to the crimes which I committed and of which I was accused by Citizen the State Prosecutor at the end of the Court investigation and on the basis of the materials of the investigation in the possession of the Procurator. I declared also in Court, and I stress and repeat it now, that I regard myself politically responsible for the sum total of the crimes committed by the ”bloc of Rights and Trotskyites.

GunnerJ
Aug 1, 2005

Do you think this is funny?

Yossarian-22 posted:

I don't see any part of this thread where anyone blamed the ideology of communism for this

Yeah but we're talking about the crimes of the first communist nation's army in the commie thread fully of commies where people regularly come in to be like "Heh, what about this, commies??" so it's not really a stretch to infer that this might be the point.

I don't even have a problem with that if that's what someone wants to do, I just haven't seen a good case making that connection nor do I see any other point to talking about it in this context.

Autism Sneaks
Nov 21, 2016

Typo posted:

ok fine, i admit it

this wasn't me idling posting poo poo about a history book i read on a shitposting forum, this was actually an organized conspiracy where i'm assisting nazi germany to launch a Barbarossa on proud stalinist safe space thread. I admit that i engaged in terrorist activities, organized kulak uprisings and prepared for Whiteguard kulak uprisings against members of the Political Bureau, against the leadership of the Party and the Soviet power. In Court I admitted and still admit my guilt in respect to the crimes which I committed and of which I was accused by Citizen the State Prosecutor at the end of the Court investigation and on the basis of the materials of the investigation in the possession of the Procurator. I declared also in Court, and I stress and repeat it now, that I regard myself politically responsible for the sum total of the crimes committed by the ”bloc of Rights and Trotskyites.

I don't think I've ever felt this embarrassed about a post I didn't make, like lol get help dude

Hilario Baldness
Feb 10, 2005

:buddy:



Grimey Drawer
From each according to their (rape) ability, to each according to their (rape) need.

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

You literally said that "German officers knew to surrender to the Americans," but the American army wouldn't have been nearly as understanding or lenient if the Wehrmacht was committing a genocide in the Mid Atlantic.

Americans started our long and glorious tradition of institutionalized Asian sex slaves during the Pacific theater of WW2, but I guess that doesn't count as a warcrime cause we left some rations on the nightstand

Hilario Baldness
Feb 10, 2005

:buddy:



Grimey Drawer
So, not to ruin this amazing discussion of rape by men on the internet, but what does everyone think of the work of Anne Applebaum and possibly her new book Red Famine?

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Typo posted:

comrade pener goes one step further and call it nazi propaganda which i think is pretty entertaining cuz this is prob the closest im gonna get to interact with someone who think's he's a political commissar from the 1940s in 2017

the 2 million number is literally the absolute highest estimate based on questionable methodology, which assumes that Goebbels wasn't lying about the Red Army raping every German woman from "8 to 80." your primary source is literally Joseph Goebbels, and that's why it's a Nazi historiography. you uncritically claim that this is the biggest mass rape in history, but the absolute highest estimate of Wehrmacht rapes in the Soviet Union is 10 million.

the issue here isn't that members of the Red Army committed atrocities, the issue is you brought up some trash scholarship and then melted down when called out on it.

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

"Meltdowns" make sense in the context of comrades being Godwin'd needlessly, which should be a loving unacceptable nonstarter and is a good exhibit A for why the left can't get its poo poo together

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Hilario Baldness posted:

So, not to ruin this amazing discussion of rape by men on the internet, but what does everyone think of the work of Anne Applebaum and possibly her new book Red Famine?

anne applebaum is a clown historian and she just published a thing in the washington post where she called trump a bolshevik

DOCTOR ZIMBARDO
May 8, 2006
Rehashing a bunch of arguments the German left in the 1960s all argued about itt. But with more uncritical agreement with Goebbels

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Bernie Sanders orders the 1st Belorussian Front to ask sweeties to smile at the Battle of Berlin

Yossarian-22 posted:

"Meltdowns" make sense in the context of comrades being Godwin'd needlessly, which should be a loving unacceptable nonstarter and is a good exhibit A for why the left can't get its poo poo together
Typo started the disengenous poo poo, so don't act like it's needless.

Autism Sneaks
Nov 21, 2016

Yossarian-22 posted:

"Meltdowns" make sense in the context of comrades being Godwin'd needlessly, which should be a loving unacceptable nonstarter and is a good exhibit A for why the left can't get its poo poo together

Maybe if you actually followed the conversation and didn't just try to insert yourself belligerently because of a personal grudge, ideological hang-up, and/or your own well-demonstrated ignorance, you would realize you have no idea what the gently caress you're talking about

..maybe

Ormi
Feb 7, 2005

B-E-H-A-V-E
Arrest us!

GunnerJ posted:

Like yeah there was a loving awful amount of rape. And?

:nallears:

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Let's get Ferretball to clarify this matter

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Joke: saying the Soviets were bad for (grossly exaggerated) mass rapes
Woke: saying the Soviets were bad for killing the Romanovs

the Soviets real crime was nationalizing Baku after it had been developed by foreign capital.

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
Rapiss bad

White Rock
Jul 14, 2007
Creativity flows in the bored and the angry!
Moving right on: I'm on the last few pages of "Towards a new Socialism", i can fully recommend it. They set out to tackle the economic and political failures by the USSR and to offer remedy for it's shortfalls. Full book available here: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/

It was published in 1993 so some bits might be a bit outdated, such as using "tele-text" for running the planned economy and voting in the direct democracy.

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
niall fergusson wants you to know that islamism is the new communism

We let Lenin rise, millions died. Now it’s Islamism

:jerkbag:

he starts referencing the black book of communism straight out of the gate like the absolute prat he is

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQMZmgamSq8

MikeCrotch
Nov 5, 2011

I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese

Darkman Fanpage posted:

niall fergusson wants you to know that islamism is the new communism

We let Lenin rise, millions died. Now it’s Islamism

:jerkbag:

he starts referencing the black book of communism straight out of the gate like the absolute prat he is

Lol nice try to get me to read Niall Ferguson

Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 214 days!
important question: where did mao stand on rape? i think he didn't like it when the japanese did it but he wasn't really a big fan of them

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

lol cool

Divorced And Curious
Jan 23, 2009

democracy depends on sausage sizzles

Ron Jeremy posted:

the Soviets real crime was nationalizing Baku after it had been developed by foreign capital.

the Soviet's real crime was the death of Laika

MODS CURE JOKES
Nov 11, 2009

OFFICIAL SAS 90s REMEMBERER
THE CORPOREAL SHAMBLING HORROR OF LF RETURNS TO FREE THE WORLD FROM TRUMP AND PROVIDE UNTO US THE PISS TAPE

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

the piss tape is electoral politics, we don't gently caress withthat

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

Karl Barks posted:

the piss tape is electoral politics, we don't gently caress withthat

reformist opportunism (tired): tax returns
revolutionary, proletarian (wired): piss tape

Ape Fist
Feb 23, 2007

Nowadays, you can do anything that you want; anal, oral, fisting, but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.
Did the Obamailures ever wrap it up in the end?

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

barry the butcher's legacy is still untarnished.

Work Friend Keven
Oct 24, 2015

I'M A BIG STUPID IDIOT WHO GETS TRIGGERED FROM THE WORDS SPORTS BALL AND HAS SHIT OPINIONS ABOUT CARD GAMES. ALSO I SAID I WAS GOING TO QUIT HEARTHSTONE OUT OF SPITE OF A TAIWANESE WINNING THE CHAMPIONSHIP SO REPORT ME IF YOU SEE ME POST IN A HS THREAD
The Obamailures are currently slowly in the process of being wrapped up against their will. Much like the benoit situation, It is what it is.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

https://twitter.com/ClassicCommie/status/930491267540226052

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Slow-Scan Shep
Jul 11, 2001

arguing the minutae of wartime atrocities committed 3/4 of a century ago with about a gymnasium full of known survivors living today in order to posture on the internet is the best poo poo ever

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