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Is "Papers, Please" inspired by real events or just the liberal perception of communist states? (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/games@lemmygrad.ml
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I find it hard to believe that your family could starve to death just from some mistakes but I might be in the "too positively biased against AES" stage of my radicalization journey

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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Ah, didn't realize this was lemmygrad 😅

Just out of curiosity though, which part of my comment do you consider to be propaganda?

Btw, by my understanding a "reactionary" is a person who seeks to restore an earlier political state of society. Wouldn't that make people who want to return to the "good old days" under Stalin the true reactionaries?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    The last paragraph referencing the Holodomor, which is a hoax, and as is refuted in the breakdown I linked. I haven't looked into the various wage systems the Soviet Union experimented with so I can't speak to that.

    To be a reactionary is to seek to conserve the current structures of power, ie. to defend capital, and in so doing to oppose revolutionary and even non-radical progressive liberal movements. It is not reactionary at all to look back on revolutionary movements in a positive light.

    https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Reactionary

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