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Real good sign your side is winning when you're conscripting a 39yo, especially someone who is arguably way more valuable left helping run your propaganda war on 
Real good sign your side is winning when you're conscripting a 39yo, especially someone who is arguably way more valuable left helping run your propaganda war on
Not only do people believe it, thinking the Molotov Ribbentrop pact was an alliance is the most common take on it I've seen from people I know in meatspace.
The only people that know what it is who are anticommunists. The rest don't have a clue.
In my experience, they couldn't tell you the name of the pact or anything about it if you asked them, but the "USSR and nazis teamed up" talking point is still there.
Liberals of all kinds, even those who are not well-read, believe that Nazism and communism are the same.
Especially those who aren't well-read.
I love this quote. What’s even worse though is being technically literate but still so fervently anti-communist that you refuse to even look at Marxist texts. Or, if you do look at them, they just look like gibberish. This is what happened to me when I attempted to read The Communist Manifesto and Capital as a liberal teenager. I got nowhere.
Ehh you usually do, the much better arguments are:
Not to
The Soviets and Britain + France were not actual political allies, only really allies in that they eventually fought the same country for a very brief period of time. In the case of France they were never at war with the Nazis simultaneously as the Soviets
Always ask them if they know what is a Czechoslovakia, what happened to it in 1938 and who were the people shaking hands nodding in agreement and then finally happily cheering after it happened.
idk what meatspace is, am i blessed for my ignorance here?
cutesy internet terminology for "in real life" a play on "cyberspace"
ohh ty, i assumed it was like some nazi forum lol
Honestly half true
(This half)
LOL