I’m not planning on getting into any arguments or debates while I’m there, but I’d like to brush up on my anti-USSR/-Stalin propaganda just in case someone wants to make a big deal out of it.

I’m not concerned about defending Stalin (the winds of history don’t need my help) but it could be an opportunity to get some bystanders to question their understanding of history.

So feel free to post all your quotations, sources, debunks, dunks, rhetoric, etc. as long as it’s at least tangentially related to Stalin/the USSR.

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[–] cynesthesia@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk about the large spoon jokes. A couple or few million people died during that famine. Deliberate or not, that is a lot of human suffering. To libs or those who don't know enough history to understand that this was not a deliberate famine, it will seem like you are mocking genocide. For those who do know that history, it will seem like you're mocking a terrible tragedy.

I suggest that a better funny anecdote to get people engaged is the Tehran conference https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran_Conference

Stalin proposed executing 50,000 to 100,000 German officers so that Germany could not plan another war. Roosevelt, believing that Stalin was not serious, joked that "maybe 49,000 would be enough." Churchill, however, was outraged and denounced "the cold blooded execution of soldiers who fought for their country."

[–] EndOfHerstory@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Despite my shirt, I plan on being on being as normal as possible. So I’ll skip the large spoon jokes. Thanks for the alternative anecdote!