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Completely, and why they are so cagey about their ancestors despite claiming the Soviets killed them. They could well be correct about that, for all the reasons they wish to hide.

Holy shit I misread it as Palestine and Ukraine facing similar challenges (which is wrong and genocide trivialization anyways). This is naked fascism, not just cryptofascism.

It was snark, not a point. I am the only one of the two of us that has provided any sources, and I know where each of the declarative statements I made came from. That’s why I asked if there was a single fact I gave that you definitively dispute.

Can you give an example of a claim that I made that cannot be substantiated? Secondly, can you give an example of a claim I made that contradicts your personal experiences?

I suppose if I’m the only one representing facts, and you don’t care for facts, then it is accurate to say we disagree on them. In that sense, this is one statement of yours I agree on! Though obviously not the way you intended, of course.

As for peaceful secession, it would be wonderful if the Banderites let Donetsk and Luhansk secede! Too bad they responded with war crimes and attempted ethnic cleansing in a bloody civil war.

Regarding the stats on the rise of communist sympathies among younger people, again, this is from a right-wing institute that specifically does not want people to identify as communist. It’s McCarthyism.

As for calling the Soviet Union a “utopia,” I never did. I simply stated facts about the Soviet Union. For example, life expectancy:

All of what I said can be rather easily verified. Is it a “complete” picture? No. I explained why I support the Soviet Union, and those were some of the many reasons.

Let’s be perfectly clear, then:

1. How do you see peace being achieved?
2. Why are the people of Donetsk and Luhansk “bad actors,” and the corrupt Banderites sacrificing and kidnapping workers off the streets in Kiev somehow not bad actors?

That’s not entirely true. You could try to present an argument for why. If that’s not possible, perhaps you should do some more digging on your own? Maybe expand your understanding?

1 is unquestionably correct, it’s how private media operates. As for 2, the idea of a “model communist state” is flawed thinking. Socialist countries like the USSR are not necessarily “models,” each has their own problems that come from existing in the real world, and not our heads. I support socialism, and the workers that make the world. The historical USSR fell into that category, and now the mantle is held by the PRC, DPRK, Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba.

Ukraine’s intense problems with corruption and lack of democracy actually stem from the 2014 Banderite coup. The entry of Russia into the Ukrainian Civil War certainly did not help Ukrainian “democracy,” but it was already over in 2014.

As for Ukraine having a right to remain sovereign, it again returns us to the question of Donetsk and Luhansk. Do they also have the right to remain sovereign, or should they be forced to remain in Ukraine, subject to cultural erasure and mass murder by the Kiev state? For Ukraine to retain its sovereignty, it needs to respect the right of the Donetsk and Luhansk to secede, and sue for peace, not drag out a pointless war that only exists for Statesian profits.

As for communism taking me down a “dark path,” I don’t see how opposing fascism and supporting resistance to ethnic cleansing makes me a bad person, especially because I want the quickest end to the bloodshed possible. I’m advocating for peace, which you confuse for a “dark path.”

Again, agreed. It would be nice if the KPRF were similar to the Bolsheviks under a Lenin/Stalin/Sverdlov style figure, but it’s also important to know that the people make revolution, and so in the process of revolution it is the people that take power, guided by the party, not the party alone.

Western journalists also widely reported on the events I stated, before the entry of Russia into the Ukrainian Civil War. The west has since censored Russian speech from the eyes of westerners, and self-censored the problems with the Ukrainian government that they so widely reported on prior to 2022.

As for the fact that I oppose Banderite fascists, and support socialism, that makes perfect sense considering I told you that I’m a communist. I devote a significant portion of my free time and disposable income to participating in that movement, though not in Russia or Europe at all. My motivation should be the clearest thing in this thread for you!

Are you familiar with how statistics work? Throw the US population into this sample size calculator. 421 is enough for around 95% confidence. Kinda like how doubling every number starting from 1 rapidly grows beyond expectation after only a couple dozen iterations, sample sizes do not need to be anywhere close to the population size to accurately predict within a 5% degree of confidence.

As for the Soviet Union, it doesn’t really matter what you have to say about it. Regardless of your own, individual experiences, the collective experiences of the soviet peoples speak the opposite. The overwhelming majority of post-soviet citizens regret the fall of socialism, and in countries like Russia, more people support socialism than capitalism.

What I’m trying to say is that ultimately, it’s the people that make history, and the people of Russia understand the need for socialism. It won’t be the Soviet Union, that time is over. But it will be similar in many ways, and that’s a great thing.

Exactly!

Of course I know Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera is long dead. The problem is that his ghost haunts the modern Ukrainian government. Modern groups in power in Ukraine draw on heritage to Bandera, along with his fascist ideology. It’s why there are so many neo-Nazis in Ukraine, openly.

Ukraine is not democratic, the democratically elected state was dissolved in 2014. Ukraine is not free, either. I am not spreading misinformation, nor is this Russian propaganda, nor is it bad faith. I’m simply a communist.

It’s certainly true, according to a poll by Cato Institute:

In the March 2025 survey, Cato/​YouGov asked a national sample of 2,000 Americans aged 18 and older about US fiscal policy, including the following: ‘Do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of Socialism?’ and ‘Do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of communism?

A total of 43% said they have a ‘favorable’ view of socialism, and for those aged 18–29, 62% said favorable. For communism, a total of 14% said they have a favorable view; however, in the 18–29 group, 34% said favorable. That’s about 18 million people. (The findings are estimates: there are an estimated 52 million Americans aged 18–29, so 34% is 17.68 million; 62% of that age group is roughly 32 million people.)

As for my opinion on the Soviet Union, it was enormously progressive. Women gained the right to vote ahead of most western countries. Life expectancy doubled, from the 30s to 70s. Famine was ended. Housing cost approximately 5% of people’s incomes. Working hours reduced, while wages rose. Literacy rates tripled, from the 30s to 99.9%. Workers for the first time in history truly established a state for themselves, by themselves.

No ties to the Kremlin whatsoever, I’m just a communist organizer and student of Marxism-Leninism. Part of that is an understanding of dialectical materialism, which helps me identify the underlying material forces at play.

The reason drawing the war out is bad for Ukraine is because it means many thousands more Ukrainians will die for worse terms of surrender. The only group that benefits is the western imperialist class that signed mineral rights and more with Ukraine in exchangd for cash and supplies.

The reason drawing the war out for Russia should be opposed is because Russians are human beings that don’t deserve to die either.

As for not having a casus belli, there are 2 critical ones.

1. The Ukrainian Civil War, that began in 2014, led to the secession of the pro-Russian Donestk and Luhansk People’s Republics. These people have a right to self-determination, and freedom from the Banderite state. These people are ethnically more Russian, so Russians sympathize with their plight.

2. The Banderite government was to host missiles on their border pointed directly at Moscow and other major populated cities, with a 6 minute travel time. Rather than let NATO continue to encircle Russia with its imperialist forces, Russia decided to preemptively stop such a threat.

None of this should come across as “odd” to you.

Communism is on the rise globally, in the US a third of young people are sympathetic to communism.

Yep! Excellent point, through the war they have developed ties that are incredibly difficult for the nationalists to explain why they can better give people what they want. It’s accelerating this process.