Had a heated argument with a tankie who glorified stalin and lenin. So fucking tired. The worst thing he’s a discord mod of a good streamer, and i left the server because i can’t be there anymore. Context: i’m russian whose grand-grandparents were repressed and forcibly relocated. Left Russia several years ago because i didn’t want to support the aggressive war in Ukraine. And his american (no offense to amreicans tho) ass tried to explain me that stalin is an actual hero who singlehandedly saved Europe from fascism, and all repressed were rich “bourgeois land owners” (actually, no. but even if yes, that’s a terrorism). Then he and other user started posting stupid tankie memes. Ofc they ignored my questions how LGBT+, religious groups and small nations were treated and deleted the message. I’m sick of that shit. Needed to vent somewhere.
Even if your great grand whatevers were fine folk, it’s still a thought terminating cliche to pull the “that regime was bad for my family” card. I have a lot of ancestors that were from the US southeast, I’m sure plenty of them got fucked up by the Union during the Civil War, but that doesn’t change the fact that the Confederacy losing was good. Hell, I have grandparents that fled Eastern Europe during WWII because they found out they were on a Soviet list. But I have the mental maturity to understand that the nascent Cold War had a scope way beyond my family.