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Hi Comrades, recent drama has caused the Politburo(that is u/Untitled_HU-Tank, u/KarlKautskyOfficial, and myself) too discuss what to do in regards to it.

While we were talking it came to light that the mods on r/ussr banned u/Untitled_HU-Tank and I without us having done anything, in fact u/Untitled_HU-Tank had never posted on r/ussr at all.

In response to all of this, we proceeded to ban all the mods on r/ussr, and now we are looking for advice on what to do from the community:

Should we ban crossposts from r/ussr?

Should we add r/ussr to our Hive Protect list(I am personally against this)?

Please let us know your opinion on what we should do.

Edit: I have since confirmed that another mod has also been banned from r/ussr

Here’s some proof the Nazis did the massacre

In the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus, there is a record of a conversation between Professor Ivan Andreyevich Vetokhin and I.K. Kuprevich dated August 3, 1943. Among the numerous records of the professor's testimony regarding life in Vileyka under occupation, there is the following phrase: "in 1942, the Germans transported corpses to the east – they were creating the 'Katyn case'. They transported them from Poland."

​Statements corroborating that the corpses were brought into Katyn were made by witnesses from the Kolenchenko partisan detachment, Burdenko himself, and a German prisoner named Hansen, who was interrogated by Belarusian partisans. Hansen was a member of Sonderkommando 7a, which was tasked with carrying out operation "Meteosvodki" – the mass exhumation and cremation of the corpses of many thousands of Soviet citizens. Hansen was present when the Germans opened the mass graves in Katyn, where he concluded that it was a hoax, because the corpses, which had allegedly been lying in the ground for a long time, were dressed in clothing that bore no signs of decomposition and looked "very fresh."

And a medical doctor named frantisek hajek examined the bodies and said they must have been killed months ago not in 1940 and said the Nazis must have done it

And all the bullets were German

And Joseph goebles in his diary says the Soviets will find out they shot them so they have to stop making the accusations and so does Himmler

Lazar Kaganovich said in a later interview around 3,200 polish military officers were executed after the invasion by the ussr but not over 20,000 and they were given trials and not buried in mass graves but killed for crimes they committed in the polish soviet war mostly, and many intellectuals were killed at Katyn as well the Nazis had a program called AB Aktion designed to destroy the polish intelligentsia the Soviets did not have a program like that and it is known the Nazis also purged the polish military and did it more extensively and simply blamed all executions on the ussr

And the main proof other then Nazi propaganda was an “investigation” by Gorbachev and a “testimony” by his close supporter Viktor Iliukhin who gave most details now considered true like shooting details and names and details about “closed packet number one” but he was a supporter of Gorbachev who said his aim was to “liquidate communism” while Soviet investigations are disregarded on the basis they were politically biased, and in the investigation there were internal inconsistencies, formatting abnormalities, and questionable dates within the documents themselves, characteristic of fabricated evidence. And the historical narrative inside the packet contradicts physical evidence—such as German-made bullets found in the victims' skulls—suggesting the massacre was committed by the Nazi Schutzstaffel rather than the Soviet NKVD

This means the only real investigation was carried out by the ussr while the Nazis are obviously an untrustworthy source from there investigation and Gorbachev and his supporters openly said slandering Stalin was there political strategy
Gorbachov’s closest supporter Alexander Yakovlev
Said “After the XX congress in an ultra-narrow circle of our closest friends and associates, we often discussed the problems of democratization of the country and society. We chose a simple – like a sledgehammer – method of propagating the "ideas" of late lenin A group of true, not imaginary reformers developed (of course, orally) the following plan: to strike with the authority of Lenin at stalin, at stalinism And then, if successful, – to strike with Plekhanov and social democracy at Lenin, and then – with liberalism and "moral socialism" – at revolutionarism in general .... The Soviet totalitarian regime could be destroyed only through glasnost and totalitarian party discipline, while hiding behind the interests of improving socialism. [...] Looking back, I can proudly say that a clever, but very simple tactic – the mechanisms of totalitarianism against the system of totalitarianism – has worked.” So they openly said using Lenin against Stalin as a cover to restore social democracy was there aim Gorbachev said he wanted to destroy communism because “my ideal is social democracy” so the only not propaganda investigation was carried out by the ussr in collaboration with the western allies

Also service badges belonging to Polish National Police Constables Jósef Kuligowski (Badge #1441) and Ludwik Malowiejski were found in Volodymyr-Volynskyi a known Nazi killing sight, finding their badges in Ukraine proves the mass graves there are Nazi atrocities. the victims at Katyn were captured and executed by advancing German forces in 1941.
The sight was a part of the broader Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia where Nazi backed Ukrainian nationalists massacred poles, again the Nazis being tied directly to killing polish civilians and intellectuals while there are no such ties to the ussr

I have seen a lot of doping allegations on USSR athletes. Even the Russian Olympic Committee was banned before the current ban due to the invasion of Ukraine.

The western media and institutions are always biased against Russia, even though the USSR fell 35 years ago, and the challenge to western hegemony stopped years before that. Russia is banned because of the Invasion of Ukraine, but the same doesn't apply to Israel, the USA or any other nation.

So I really want to understand how much state sponsored doping was actually happening in Russia, or the USSR. Is Russia just targeted by WADA? If doping was widespread, why are there so few allegations on athletes from other former USSR nations?

Also in Sarapova's case, she was accused of using Melodonium, but performance enhancement abilities of the drug are widely contested. Also many athletes are banned, but they had used the substance before the WADA ban. This and the fact that Melodonium was created in Latvia, which means mostly Eastern European athletes would be using it makes me wonder if this is a targeted ban.

All of this sounds suspicious.

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I am interested in learning about the mistakes of actually existing/existed socialist states and in particular the mistakes that we’re made. It’s also really hard to find info in English about those mistakes that isn’t traced back to some form of anti communist propaganda. Can anyone help me find out more about the mistakes of the USSR without the exaggerations that typical English language sources spin on everything?