Honestly just reading into Operation Gladio is a rabbit hole of its own, and shows the purposeful use of fascists to fight left wing elements in western Europe.

The KPRF is the biggest opposition party and it frequently criticizes United Russia.

Because Israel is committing genocide on live TV while western media pretends it isn’t.

Yep, that’s about right! Media literacy is one of the most important tools in the modern age.

I don’t know what you think, I’m just explaining an example where Russian media is more truthful than German.

Knows what? That Israel is committing genocide in Palestine, aided by the west in general and Germany in particular?

I distrust German media, the BBC, and Russian media similarly. I read news from all over and try to take their source into account. If I trusted German media you’d think there’s no genocide in Palestine, but that’s clearly propaganda. Russian media on the other hand is more honest on that particular topic.

To the point of trusting it and the BBC over anything Russian.

Why do you trust German media so much?

How so? Gotta pay attention to the news to know what’s going on.

Why not all, with a critical eye?

Do you think it’s impossible for Russians to tell the truth, ever? Do you do the same for BBC and the New York Times, given how they’ve covered topics like Palestinian genocide?

With a more independent Russian economy, with higher trade with China and the global south, and less cheap LNG for Europe?

Landback and decolonization. Because your great great grandparents stole the car, the people it was stolen from have been subject to generational poverty, genocide, and slavery that impacts them today, while you sustain a generational benefit. It needs to be rectified.

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Scratched.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn was an anti-semitic Nazi sympathizer, and was arrested as such. His fiction is based on the folklore of the gulag system, and archival evidence and historical texts paint a much clearer picture of the soviet prison system. He’s essentially Yeonmi Park but for the USSR.

Here’s a real quote:

The German army could have liberated the Soviet Union from Communism but Hitler was stupid and did not use this weapon.

From an excellent thread going over his many ideological failings:

In his 2003 book, Two Hundred Years Together, he wrote that “from 20 ministers in the first Soviet government one was Russian, one Georgian, one Armenian and 17 Jews”. In reality, there were 15 Commissars in the first Soviet government, not 20: 11 Russians, 2 Ukrainians, 1 Pole, and only 1 Jew. He stated: “I had to bury many comrades at the front, but not once did I have to bury a Jew”. He also stated that according to his personal experience, Jews had a much easier life in the Gulag camps that he was interned in.

According to the Northwestern University historian Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern: Solzhenitsyn used unreliable and manipulated figures and ignored both evidence unfavorable to his own point of view and numerous publications of reputable authors in Jewish history. He claimed that Jews promoted alcoholism among the peasantry, flooded the retail trade with contraband, and “strangled” the Russian merchant class in Moscow. He called Jews non-producing people (“непроизводительный народ”) who refused to engage in factory labor. He said they were averse to agriculture and unwilling to till the land either in Russia, in Argentina, or in Palestine, and he blamed the Jews’ own behavior for pogroms. He also claimed that Jews used Kabbalah to tempt Russians into heresy, seduced Russians with rationalism and fashion, provoked sectarianism and weakened the financial system, committed murders on the orders of qahal authorities, and exerted undue influence on the prerevolutionary government. Petrovsky-Shtern concludes that, “200 Years Together is destined to take a place of honor in the canon of russophone antisemitica.”

His own wife called the Gulag Archipelago “folklore,” why on Earth are you listening to a rabid anti-semite and fiction author over actual historical evidence? I already said the soviets imprisoned fascists, you’re giving a great example of one and proving my point.

Yep, the soviet union had prisons, and had to deal with fascists, traitors, and holdovers from former Tsarism. Read the book I linked, prisoners on average were treated better than in peer countries.

They rapidly developed, and managed to go their entire existence without the regular boom/bust cycles intrinsic to capitalism, due to having a socialist economy.

On the whole, soviet prisons and the justice system itself were more progressive than their peers, Mary Stevenson Callcott documented it quite well in Russian Justice.