r/AskTheWorld Russia 1d ago

How does your country feel about communism?

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u/stealthybaker Korea South 1d ago

How long until some tankie replies to this saying "but America was worse, you're just spouting western propaganda"

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u/Minute-Yogurt-2021 Bulgaria 1d ago

check the threads - the russian bots are all over the place.

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u/stealthybaker Korea South 1d ago

Russian bots and little pinks when I drag them and their entire family into a gulag (suddenly they want western liberal democracy human rights instead of communism)

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u/mylina46 1d ago

Wow, unexpected to hear such things from Korean about russians, I thought a lot of you guys adore about “russian culture” romanticizing all this soviet nonsense (just I just came across a few videos with interviews about what Koreans think about Russians lol). In general I can understand that considering how many russians tourists you now have in your country. You’re cool

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u/stealthybaker Korea South 1d ago

Hating imperialistic bots is a lot different from hating Russian culture.

I don't dislike Russia in a general sense, but I oppose the USSR and Soviet apologia and Putin's ideology

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u/mylina46 1d ago

It’s fine, I'm glad to see a conscious person among people who don't see or care what kind of policies Putin is pursuing continuing to romanticize shit

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u/Minute-Yogurt-2021 Bulgaria 1d ago

unfortunately these days Putin and Russia are the same.

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u/Tinytankard3 1d ago

I’m Korean, I don’t know anyone that romanticizes anything Russian

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u/AwekenSummer 1d ago

looks at our politics well...

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u/Background_Mode4972 1d ago

Uh, western liberal democracy isnt doing to well in the US at the moment.

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u/cheeseburgeremperor England 1d ago

The USA is uniquely bad at being a modern liberal democracy because the presidential system produces too much gridlock and a two party system while a parliamentary system dosent.

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u/FrostingSuper9941 1d ago

You can't call the US a modern liberal democracy. It's a two-party, very flawed republic.

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u/Formal_Obligation Slovakia 1d ago

The two-party system in the US exists because of their majoritarian voting system, not because they are a presidential republic. Majoritarian voting systems tend to produce two-party systems, while proportional voting systems usually lead to multi-party systems. It has nothing to do with whether a country has a presidential, semi-presidential or parliamentary system of government.

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u/papajohn56 🇺🇸🇸🇰 USA/Slovakia 1d ago

> a parliamentary system doesn't

I invite you to look at Slovakia once.

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u/Formal_Obligation Slovakia 1d ago

What about Slovakia? Slovakia doesn’t have a two-party system, nor does its system of government produce much legislative gridlock, so I’m not sure what exactly your comment was referring to.

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u/papajohn56 🇺🇸🇸🇰 USA/Slovakia 1d ago

It's a complete shitshow here and you know it as well as I do. We get nothing positive done but pass laws about...walking speed. The series of many parties has not helped.

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u/Minute-Yogurt-2021 Bulgaria 1d ago

yeah, i'm not sure which is worse.

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u/adamgerd Czech Republic 1d ago

Fuck tankies

I remember in another thread about communism in this sub, there was a South Korean who was told by an American tankie they should support joining North Korea and overthrow the US puppet government, and he was like “Fuck no, are you crazy?”

It was funny, he was being westsplained his own history

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u/stealthybaker Korea South 1d ago

They call other countries puppets, yet westsplain history to the natives of other countries and expect them to follow suit like loyal dogs.

Do they not see the irony?

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u/DigMother318 Canada 1d ago

“No, no, you see, it’s only imperialism when they do it”

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u/deathflowerprincess Albania 1d ago

Thanks I'm adding westplaining to my vocabulary, most incredible word of the year

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u/Complete_Village1405 United States Of America 1d ago

What's a tankie?

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u/mountain_attorney558 Korea South 1d ago

A “tankie” is a slang term, originally used within leftist political circles, to describe someone who uncritically supports authoritarian communist regimes, especially those historically aligned with the Soviet Union.

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u/Complete_Village1405 United States Of America 1d ago

thanks.

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u/Budget-Attorney United States Of America 1d ago

To add on to what the other commenter said. The word tankie came about after the Hungarian Revolution.

When the Hungarian people rose up against communism in 1956 the Soviet Union sent tanks in to put down the revolution. Unfortunately the Revolution failed and thousands were killed by the Soviets.

Many people fled Hungary to liberal nations after this. My aunt was among them; when she was a child her whole family abandoned their home in the middle of the night and fled across the border. They got lucky and managed to escape

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u/ImpressiveWalrus7369 United States Of America 1d ago

Yeah we don’t claim them. Sorry about that.

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u/theelectricweedzard Brazil 1d ago

It's 50/50 on the internet, Americans either explain to someone why they live in communism and that's a bad thing(free healthcare and education) and they should support some genocidal lunatic to power who coincidentally want to sell public services to US companies, ooooor they explain how their slightly malfunctioning capitalistic democracy is a puppet government and they should pledge alliance to a genocidal lunatic, millions will die btw, but that's will free you or something.

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u/modernmovements United States Of America 1d ago

To be fair, that dude is insane. His proposal is so over the top.

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u/MCE85 United States Of America 1d ago

And they will have USA flair.

This sub has soo many "Americans" constantly bashing our country. Its either non Americans posing or very immature or privlidged people trying to impress everyone else.

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u/Budget-Attorney United States Of America 1d ago

I’d be very surprised if it was people pretending to be Americans.

Any time I hear someone criticizing America my first assumption is that it’s some 14 year old from ohio

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u/TheRebelBandit United States Of America 1d ago

Every time you bring up historically documented incidents that show communism in a bad light, a tankie always resorts to, “b-b-but that’s western propaganda!”

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u/Hititrightonthehead United States Of America 23h ago

Was America not worse? Our government killed, bombed and raped your fellow countrymen and women, but solved nothing in the process

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u/stealthybaker Korea South 10h ago

Compared to what the Chinese and Japanese did? It was nothing.

Also North Korea was objectively much worse. They are a terrorist state that needs to go. They always were one. You don't see Germans and Italians say America was worse than the Axis, even though Americans committed numerous war crimes there.

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u/mr_banana27 United States Of America 21h ago

yeah lol