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byAmiMoJo ( 196126 ) * writes:
Obviously the ones they parade are just shells. Do you think the US/USSR paraded armed nuclear missiles down the streets back in the day?
byperagrin ( 659227 ) writes:
Damn straight they did. And every communist lived in peace with their neighbors.
bycold fjord ( 826450 ) writes:
Damn straight they did. And every communist lived in peace with their neighbors.
It's nice that people can still believe fairytales, but not so nice when they involve the "peaceful" nature of communism. There is a little history you left out, such as:
The Soviet suppression of the workers strike in East Germany in 1953, the Soviet invasion to put down the Hungarian revolution in 1956, the Soviet led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 to crush the "Prague Spring - Socialism with a Human Face," and the Soviet invasion of communist Afghanistan.
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanista [heritage.org]
byspitzak ( 4019 ) writes:
Whooosh!!!!!
bycold fjord ( 826450 ) writes:
See above - especially if you still have active communist parties in your country - otherwise you have a leak.
byspitzak ( 4019 ) writes:
Not sure what you are getting at.
The gp posted a lengthy article about how mean communist countries were to each other. This seems to imply he thought the ggp (who said "and every communist lived in peace with their neighbors") seriously thought communists were peaceful. I believe the ggp was trying to make a joke and in no way believed that, and the person going through the trouble to post the lengthy article trying to refute him was seriously "whooshed" by the joke and should be embarrassed.
Actually I'm a
bycold fjord ( 826450 ) writes:
Read this post [slashdot.org], as I suggested. If it still seems unclear, I'll see if I can provide more detail. And you save you a little work - you almost certainly have one or more genuine communist parties in your country, and communists read Slashdot.
byspitzak ( 4019 ) writes:
You are really flailing trying to defend the fact that you cannot recognize a joke, sorry. Just realize and admit you did a stupid thing. You are obviously intelligent since you went through the work of collecting references and everything, I'll give you that.
I agree there are probably people who believe communism is a nirvana and everything is perfect. However it is OBVIOUS that the poster writing in response to "did the US and USSR use real nukes in their parades" with "Damn straight they did. And every communist lived in peace with their neighbors." is not one of them. He was making a joke, implicitly implying that the falsehood of real nukes being used in parades is equal to the falsehood of communists being peaceful with their neighbors. Get it?
I also agree that sarcasm is sometimes hard to see on the Internet. But this is not a good example. Sometimes is is pretty obvious, such as in this case.
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bycold fjord ( 826450 ) writes:
Believe what you will. My purpose was to provide explicit information and insight. Humor can provide insight, and serve as a power means of social criticism. The problem when dealing with communism is that the fans of communism will ignore or reject the joke, or even take it as serious when it is subtle. By the way - did you notice that post's moderation? 50% Interesting, 50% Funny. If you think that quip revealed more about the true nature of communist regimes than my post, you are a person of rare
byspitzak ( 4019 ) writes:
The Soviets really did use real missiles in their parades, just without the payload.
That is exactly what the original poster was saying. The term "nuke" usually refers to the payload, and he was stating the obvious fact that they did not use missiles with payloads (and probably ones never intended to fly at all) in the parade.
If you really need to prove that the communists attacked other countries (you actually kind of limited it to only communist other countries, which is only a subset of "neighbors" and t
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