• GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    Let’s be fair here, dudes with Stalin and Nicholas II tattoos side-by-side are fair to seriously suspect of having an ideology that would boil down to NazBolism, since they are worshiping a guy falsely accused of doing anti-semitic pogroms and also a guy who actually did them.

    • voight [he/him, any]@hexbear.netOP
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      10 months ago

      That’s just a tattoo from a random dude, I was trying to be lighthearted, but it seems the connection of “Russian communists are all Nazis” is really strong to people?

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        10 months ago

        NazBols and Nazis aren’t quite the same, I knew about that image before seeing that you attached it in the thread, and I’m not saying “All Russian communists” (in fact, I specifically note there are many real Russian communists), just that Russia is the #1 place to be a fan of Stalin and not a communist. There are communist Stalin fans, and in fact I believe this guy is one, but there are also reactionary, vibes-based Stalin fans.