this is a Molotov-Ribbentrop moment for Western tankieshttps://twitter.com/StephenMcDonell/status/1432277087830908931 …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I know it's English but so often your words sound like a foreign language to me friend
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Replying to @liminal_warmth
basically there was a ton of idealistic sympathy for the Soviet Union in the west leading up to ww2. western socialists hoped for a Soviet future after a crushing war against Hitler by the enlightened Soviets and then Stalin and Hitler made a deal to partition Poland
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Replying to @eigenrobot @liminal_warmth
this led many western socialists to become bitterly disillusioned eg the plot of animal farm was Orwell being really fucking salty about Stalin's betrayal
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Replying to @eigenrobot @liminal_warmth
(stalin's betrayal causing orwell to catch a bullet in the neck in Spain, only being pulled out by his wife)
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oh shit I did not know that
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