• pirc_lover@feddit.uk
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    7 days ago

    fr i’m not a huge fan of using the hammer and sickle as an emblem given the atrocities carried out by the USSR like the holodomor.

    like you can be in favour of a planned economy without simping for stalin’s regime.

    • laserm@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Reminder that states of the former Soviet Block were more brutal union busters than US capitalists and that they participated in huge ethnic cleansings. Solidarnost, the movement that moved Poland past the iron curtain, was literally a union!