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Under Obama, the U.S. massively expanded drone warfare. CFR counted 542 drone strikes authorized during his presidency, estimating roughly 3,797 people killed, including 324 civilians. Even the Obama administration acknowledged using military force across Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Libya and Yemen, while drone operations also took place in Pakistan.

The administration defended these policies as lawful counterterrorism, while critics disputed its civilian-casualty accounting.

None of that makes every accusation against Stalin true. It exposes the difference in framing. Soviet history is often reduced to repression, executions and death tolls; American violence gets buried beneath words like intervention, national security, targeted strike, and collateral damage.

Imagine learning about the American empire from someone who hated it as much as your history textbook hated the USSR.

The US had already stationed nuclear Jupiter missiles in Turkey, right next to the Soviet Union. Cuba had also just gone through the Bay of Pigs and had pretty good reason to think another attempt to overthrow Castro could happen.

Then the Soviets put missiles in Cuba and suddenly having another superpower’s nukes sitting near your country became unacceptable…

And the funniest part is how this crisis ended.

The Soviets removed their missiles from Cuba, the US pledged not to invade Cuba, and Kennedy privately agreed that the American Jupiter missiles in Turkey would be removed too. A few months later, they were gone.

Obviously the missiles in Turkey weren’t the only reason the Soviets put missiles in Cuba. There was Cuba’s defense, nuclear strategy, Cold War politics, etc.

But leaving the Turkey part out makes the whole story sound completely different.

It ain’t no fun once the rabbit gets the gun.

You were told Soviet history was simple: Stalin was a monster, socialism was a failure, and the USSR was nothing but repression and misery.

What a convenient story, who does that narrative benefit the most? Capitalists? Now actually study it. Read the archives. Read Soviet sources and their critics. Read historians who disagree with each other. Look at what Russia inherited in 1917 and what the USSR became within a generation. Look at industrialization, literacy, the transformation of a largely agrarian society, the war against Nazi Germany, and the human costs that came with those transformations.

Then ask yourself this, why is so much popular Soviet “history” reduced to body count memes and Cold War talking points? You don’t have to become a communist. You don’t have to defend Stalin. Just stop confusing what you were taught with the totality of the historical record. Read. Compare. Question everything.

Take nothing at face value.

There’s a reason they gutted the department of education.

Modern Russia is not the Soviet Union. It’s the product of the USSR’s destruction. The red flag was torn down, socialist property was carved up, and the wealth built by generations of Soviet workers was gutted and handed out to oligarchs and private capital.

They promised “freedom” and prosperity. What really happened was privatization, inequality, demographic catastrophe and the enrichment of a tiny capitalist class.

The USSR defeated fascism, transformed an impoverished empire into an industrial superpower, put humanity into space and challenged capitalist domination across the world.

We don’t want the Russian Empire back. We don’t want oligarchic capitalism painted red. We want socialism. We want Soviet power. ☭

The future belongs to the workers.

It’s time we take it back.

“Communism killed 100 gorillion people.” “Everyone starved.” “Nobody owned a toothbrush.” “Sounds good in theory.” “Human nature is too greedy”

Decades of Red Scare propaganda have created an entire imaginary version of communism that exists mostly in ill informed history memes and cable-news/podcasters talking points.

But when we mention universal healthcare, affordable housing, stronger unions, worker ownership, billionaires having too much power, or an economy built around human need instead of endless profit, and suddenly people start agreeing with us and our ideas they were taught to fear.

Turns out most people weren’t taught what communists believe. They were taught what to believe about communists.

And there’s a reason they never wanted you learning the difference.

0 doubt the world would be a better place.

The relationship between Lenin and Stalin gets flattened into this version where Lenin supposedly spent his final years desperately trying to save the revolution from Stalin. The actual history is a lot more complicated.

They were Bolshevik comrades for years. Lenin repeatedly entrusted Stalin with important responsibilities, Stalin served on the Bolshevik Central Committee, became People’s Commissar for Nationalities after the Revolution, and was elevated to General Secretary while Lenin was still alive. Lenin clearly had serious disagreements with Stalin, especially near the end of his life, over Stalin’s conduct, the nationalities question, and his treatment of Krupskaya.

But people saying that their final disputes erase their entire previous relationship is just misleading.

Lenin didn’t spend decades viewing Stalin as some secret anti-Leninist waiting to hijack the revolution. Stalin emerged from the Bolshevik movement itself and spent the rest of his political life explicitly presenting his politics as a continuation of Marx and Lenin.

Stalin was a Marxist-Leninist 😱

1. Crucial role in the defeat of Nazi Germany

2. First human in space, Yuri Gagarin

3. First artificial satellite, Sputnik 1

4. Major contribution to the global eradication of smallpox

5. Pioneering the mass use/testing of the oral polio vaccine

6. First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova

7. First spacewalk, Alexei Leonov

8. Pioneering exploration of the Moon and planets

9. Transformation to near-universal literacy and mass education

10. World’s first nuclear power plant brought into commercial operation, Obninsk, 1954

And let’s not forget the millions upon millions of ordinary people whose lives were uplifted through socialism, through expanded education, healthcare, housing, employment, and opportunities that had once been beyond their reach.

The USSR was imperfect, but its accomplishments and contributions to humanity deserve to be remembered.

Reminder: The People Who Crushed the Third Reich Wore Red Stars.

Every year I see people try to rewrite World War II into a story where the Soviet Union was somehow just “as bad” as Nazi Germany.

Every time reactionaries try to equate the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany, they erase the simple fact that one side built Auschwitz, and the other liberated it.

Soviet workers, civilians, and soldiers who paid the highest price to break the back of fascism. 27,000,000 Soviet lives were sacrificed so humanity could have a future without the Third Reich.

The people who demonize the USSR while downplaying its role in defeating fascism aren’t interested in history. They’re interested in rehabilitating anti-communism. They want you to forget who stood between the Europe and a thousand year Reich.

Every attack on the Soviet victory is an attempt to rewrite history in favor of the defeated. The losing side constantly attempts to paints communists and communism as a loser/ losing ideology.

It’s clear who the real losers were, and continue to be.

It’s always “Never Stress” with these chuds until your leader was so stressed that the Red Army of Workers and Peasants were knocking on the bunker door he blew his shit smoove off. Lmao

Be a communist fighting for the working class or be a Patriot that fights for the Epstein Class?

What a hard choice.

They spent decades telling us the USSR was nothing but evil, expecting nobody to ever question the story.

Instead, every year more people start digging into history for themselves. They discover who bore the brunt of the fight against Nazi Germany, who industrialized at record speed, and how much Cold War propaganda shaped what they were taught.

The louder politicians and political pundits shout “communism bad,” the more curious people become…

The Red Scare is losing its grip. More and more young people are deciding to read history instead of just repeating it ☭

They keep saying we were brainwashed… so why does history keep proving us right and them wrong?

They still take pages out of gobbles playbook for anti-communist propaganda used against the USSR. This technique is called “The Big Lie” and you can see it being used by those examples above.

We owe it to the Soviet Union for victory in WW2, yet American leaders insist it was all due to America, which isn’t historically accurate at all.

Practice what you preach

We won’t let this disgraceful, disgusting ideology return without a fight!

Fascism isn’t just a relic of the past. It grows wherever fear is weaponized, minorities are scapegoated, workers are divided against one another, and billionaires (and trillionaires, gross) are allowed to shape politics while ordinary people struggle to survive.

The generations before us defeated fascism through immense sacrifice. Our responsibility today is different, but no less important: organize our communities, educate ourselves and others, defend democratic rights, stand with workers, oppose racism and political repression, and refuse to let hate become normalized. Every workplace, neighborhood, union, and community organization can become a place where solidarity is stronger than fear.

Comrades, our greatest weapon has never been intimidation it has always been solidarity. Build organizations. Support labor struggles. Protect vulnerable people. Challenge fascist ideas wherever they appear, and show through action that a society based on cooperation and equality is stronger than one built on hatred and division. The fight against fascism begins with ordinary people refusing to surrender their future. We must force ourselves to think about the world our children will grow up in.

The Soviet Union was more than a country, it was proof that capitalism was not the only path history could take. For decades it stood as an alternative center of power, inspiring anti-colonial struggles, labor movements, and socialist projects/ revolutions across the globe. The Western political and financial establishment could never accept a rival system claiming to offer a different future. The Cold War became not only a geopolitical contest but an ideological campaign to isolate, weaken, and ultimately outlast that alternative. Whether one agrees with every aspect of Soviet history or not, its collapse marked the triumph of one world order over another, are you satisfied with this new modern world order under capitalism?

I sure as hell am not.

Every time liberals and reactionaries scream “victims of communism,” you have to ask, who exactly are you mourning? Because history keeps showing us that a lot of these so-called “innocent victims” were fascists, collaborators, SS-adjacent nationalists, anti-Soviet killers, and people who would’ve gladly helped turn Eastern Europe into a Nazi slave colony.

Canada’s own recent “Victims of Communism” memorial had to drop the names because too many were tied to Nazi collaboration and fascist movements.

That’s why us communists shouldn’t be afraid to challenge the anti communist slogans we’re handed. Every time we’re told to mourn the vague category of the “victims of communism,” we should ask who is actually being included, and why. Time and time again, we’ve seen anti-communist campaigns elevate people who fought alongside fascist forces or collaborated with Nazi occupation as symbols of “freedom.” If your historical narrative ends up rehabilitating those who marched with the Third Reich simply because they opposed the USSR, then it’s your narrative that deserves questioning.

The Soviet Union paid an unimaginable price to destroy Nazi Germany. Millions of Soviet civilians and soldiers died defeating fascism.

We won’t let anti-fascism be rewritten into something shameful, and we won’t apologize for the people who broke the back of the Third Reich.

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The Soviet Union was a socialist state led by a communist party and I think its accomplishments deserve far more honest discussion than they usually receive.

“Communism never worked.”

Meanwhile, people can’t stop talking about the USSR over 30 years after it disappeared.

The USSR was working to be communist, and millions of people built their lives there. If socialism and communism “never worked,” why do people still debate its achievements decades after its collapse?

They told us socialism could never build a great society. Then they spend every day reminding us how much they feared the one that did.

Capitalism won.

Congratulations.

Now get back to your second job.

Today, much of mainstream rap has been transformed into another product. The industry rewards lyrics that glorify luxury brands, endless consumption, and individual wealth while pushing revolutionary and class-conscious voices to the margins. Capitalism has an incredible ability to take a culture born from struggle and repackage it into something profitable, often stripping away the politics that made it powerful in the first place.

They were talking about poverty, police brutality, imperialism, prisons, and the conditions that created violence. This is a problem with the modern metal scene as well.

The music that questions capitalism, imperialism, and exploitation rarely receives the same platform as songs celebrating designer clothes, private jets, and billionaire/playboy lifestyles.

Tupac’s interest in revolutionary politics is a reminder that hip-hop once encouraged people to read, think, and question the world around them.

Now it’s all about clout chasing, going viral, making tons of money and being basically romanticizing being just like a billionaire.

You can certainly see a shift happening, especially among younger generations. Whether people call it socialism, communism, or simply a rejection of the current economic system, more young Americans are openly questioning capitalism than they have in decades. Rising housing costs, student debt, stagnant wages, and growing wealth inequality have pushed ideas that were once considered politically marginal back into mainstream discussion. This isn’t some conspiracy theory, it’s happening in real time.

Ironically, some of the biggest promoters of that conversation aren’t leftists at all. Turn on cable news and you’ll hear commentators on Fox News, Newsmax, and other conservative outlets talking about communism, the Soviet Union, Marxism, and socialism almost daily. Their intention is to warn people away from those ideas, but constant attention also makes them more visible. Every time they declare that communism is “coming to America,” they introduce another generation to ideas that many young people then go and research for themselves. Fear campaigns have a strange way of making the thing they’re attacking seem more relevant than ever.

Even establishment politicians are beginning to frame politics in those terms. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson recently described the country as being in a struggle against communism in America. Whether you agree with that characterization or not, it reflects the fact that communism has once again become part of the national political conversation. Ideas that many assumed had disappeared from American politics are now being debated openly by politicians, media figures, and millions of ordinary people online.

At the same time, some conservative commentators have argued that powerful billionaires are deeply worried about growing interest in socialism and communism. Ashley St. Clair, for example, has made comments suggesting that figures like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg see these movements as a serious challenge to the existing economic order. If some of the wealthiest and most influential people in society are openly discussing or reacting to these ideas, it suggests they don’t view them as irrelevant.

History shows that every major political movement begins long before it holds power. It simply starts with people holding conversations, organizing, and changing public opinion. Whether someone sees that as hopeful or alarming depends on their politics, but it’s difficult to deny that these ideas are receiving more attention than they have in a generation. If there is a new political vanguard forming in America, its foundation is being built in plain sight.

I for one am proud to be apart of this New Bolshevik movement prospering in the imperial core, are you?

I know the lyrics say “so be it” but i always hear “Soviet”