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  • RedundantClam [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    :very-intelligent: Ah yes, Hitler may have had purged all the Communists he could in his country and Stalin may have tried to form an anti-fascist alliance with the west, but have you considered the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?

    Every fucking time they cite it as some grand historical gotcha. Stripping all context from it.

      • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        That certified America Moment™ when the US STATE DEPARTMENT IS MORE HONEST ABOUT COMMUNIST COUNTRIES THAN IT'S OWN "ENLIGHTENED" POPULACE

        :agony-limitless:

        :agony-immense:

        • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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          edit-2
          2 years ago

          do you mean the links in the image or the image I linked? :confusion:

          https://archive.ph/AX8DF

          because both work for me

          • emizeko [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            https://i.ibb.co/NjQ39Xr/moltov-ribbentrop-even-the-state-dept-acknowledges-the-truth.png

            gives me a 404 not found from an nginx instance

            • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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              edit-2
              2 years ago

              weird. even right now this link still works for me.

              EDIT: The direct png link works for me but the main link (https://i.ibb.co/NjQ39Xr, which is the stupid one with the page wrappers they want everyone to use) doesn't work for me. Are you on mobile? I find on mobile all direct image links on image sharing websites are redirected to the page wrapper link. Which I find infinitely irritating. Maybe they removed it for some dumb TOS violation. I would imagine the word ribbentrop maybe triggered something. I have a hard time lately with pastebin's smart filters. and a lot of image websites trying to auto-remove any political content i upload, especially with respect to mention of Nazism. It seems to be unable to distinguish between mentions of nazism in a negative light and a positive light. I think anything other than the cynical mainstream american narratives with regards to WW2 is outright banned.

              Anyway I reuploaded it: https://i.ibb.co/Ny42kSm/moltov-ribbentrop-even-the-state-dept-acknowledges-the-truth.png

              tell me if that one's fucked too