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[–] goat@sh.itjust.works [S] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You lived there? How old are you?

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[–] MxM111@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

50+. Do not want to give personal information on internet more than needed.

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[–] goat@sh.itjust.works [S] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

So you didn't actually experience life under the soviet gulags.

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[–] MxM111@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I did not claimed I am. But Soviet ideology and fascist ideology are quite different. It is not like there must be just single ideology that can do bad things.

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[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Authoritarianism?

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[–] MxM111@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago*

Yes. There are common elements too. Yet there were quite different. There are common elements between fascism and democracy (both allow private property, for example, both have idea of state), so what? The world is not binary.

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