• David_Eight@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        What’s the difference between colonialism and what the USSR did in East Germany and Afghanistan?

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          4 months ago

          Fucking unbelievable that you’d just leave out the fact that Germany was under literal Nazi rule. Unironically a Nazi sympathiser… East Germany thrived under USSR just so you know.

          There was no unequal exchange. Which is what Western Imperial powers do to countries that can’t fight back.

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          They legitimately elected Afghan government asked the USSR to help in putting down a wahhabist revolt. The US unsurprisingly armed and funded the wahabbist women-hating reactionaries, just as they do locally with their evangelical movement.

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            4 months ago

            So the majority of the Afghan people welcomed the Soviets into their country? If that’s true why was the Afghan government overthrown a few years after the Soviets left?

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              holy fuck Dessalines literally wrote what happened with the Afghan government and you still repeatedly hyper-focus on this question. You’ve been answered multiple times and yet you ignore everything