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[𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝗺 𝗽𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗮]

Quando as pessoas descrevem indivíduos ou regimes particularmente maléficos, por que elas utilizam os termos "nazista" ou "fascista", mas quase nunca "comunista"? ⬇
@38bitcoinheiro @alan_schramm @rpandolfato @gustavoramos @liberdadenumen Considerando o inigualável volume de sofrimento humano causado pelos comunistas, por que o termo "𝗰𝗼𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮" causa muito menos repulsa das massas?

Vejamos: ⬇
@38bitcoinheiro @alan_schramm @rpandolfato @gustavoramos @liberdadenumen Os comunistas mataram 70 milhões de pessoas na #China , mais de 20 milhões de pessoas na União Soviética (e isso sem incluir os aproximadamente 5 milhões de ucranianos), e exterminaram um terço (33%) da população do Camboja.

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#MinskProtocol.. say what?
#Azov -Press
ATTENTION! #Mobilization starts on 26 September!
Join the new #recruits! | 04.10.2016 Image
The #MinskProtocol, was drafted in 2014 by the #Trilateral Contact Group consisting of #Ukraine, #Russia, and #OSCE.
- The agreement failed to stop fighting, and was thus followed with a revised and updated agreement, Minsk II, signed on 12 February 2015
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agr… ImageImage
The conflict in #Ukraine was not opened by #Russia on Feb 24, but by Ukraine a week before.
- The #OSCE #France is a witness to this:
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1. Just my perception formed when I managed a huge restaurant at the #Hilton in #NYC in late 1970s. The employees included post-Refusnik #RussianJews who I used to let hang out in my office when it was slow so they could smoke & teach me about the lives of #Soviet #Russian #Jews
2. including the brutal life in Soviet #gulags, rampant #corruption and constant #fear. Survival in a repressive society. At this same time I had been directed by the great Chekhovian director Nikos Psacharopoulos who directed me in scene study performing Kostia in the Seagull.
3. The method had supercharged my psyche at this time to freely accept Russian ions. IMO the popularity of being photographed in front of this hideous sculpture is Russian resistance humor. An inside joke.
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