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by emp_zealoth 4053 days ago
I'd like to call you on that. Russian communism led to gigantic starvation and mass executions (pre WWII), i believe the biggest one yet
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I absolutely agree with you, but it's worth mentioning that communism brought some temporal and local improvements to the lives of some people that is used for arguing for communism. E.g. an individual from a poor family who could study engineering was probably satisfied with the changes. But the big picture is pretty bad anyway.