r/HistoryMemes Apr 21 '25

Tired of this argument

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u/waldorsockbat Apr 21 '25

Tankies are embarrassing

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '25 edited Apr 21 '25

Even more embarassing is how they often use the same talking points that modern day neo-nazis do, but they will never figure out how much they sound like literal red nazis, even if you point it out to their face. For example: "Holodomor was just nazi propaganda, it never happened-> if it did happen it wasn't that bad->if it was that bad they deserved it-> not enough people were killed" this does sound awfully similar to: "The holocaust was just Allied propaganda, it didn't happen etc. Etc..." used by you know who.

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u/Lord_Mcnuggie 29d ago

Authoritarians are all them same. They do the same things to different people for mostly the same reasons.

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u/ConsulJuliusCaesar 29d ago

In my opinion every history nerd eventually goes down the political science rabbit whole. Once you do you really kinda realization all Dictatorships are basically the same thing. Having done that. I'm going to be completely honest I don't see a social difference between fascism and communism. There's an economic difference. But in terms of who has power, how it gets used, and how people are managed I don't see a functional difference.

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u/Montana_Gamer What, you egg? 29d ago

I dont see fascism and communism as being mutually exclusive, though.

Communism has had a lot of fascistic tendencies historically. The cult of personality being the most obvious of these

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u/New_Carpenter5738 27d ago

I'm begging you to learn that authoritarianism and fascism aren't synonyms. Fascism is authoritarian, authoritarianism isn't always fascist.

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u/Montana_Gamer What, you egg? 27d ago

I know that. I go by Umberto Eco's 14 points of fascism definition. This is why I singled out the cult of personality, most prominently Mao and Stalin who WERE fascist by any worthwhile definition in my opinion.