is "but they fought against fascists once" an ironclad tankie creed or something that's rhetorical of course it is
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watching a European leftist splain to a Burmese woman how Chinese imperialist domination of Burma is actually good likepic.twitter.com/fTHBJKKYih
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Stalin defeated Hitler! (After Hitler invaded USSR, before then the official policy was friendship and non-intervention against Hitler)
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The one-two punch of Orwell "turning against the Left" was Comintern suppressing his anarchist cell in the Spanish Civil War, then that
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And among UK leftists "Well how different are Hitler and the stories really" was a stupidly common take re: Molotov-Ribbentrop
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Familiarizing oneself w that time period is a good way to inoculate oneself from shock at the bad takes we're getting now
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