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FBaggins

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2. This is common rhetoric in that part of the world.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sat Feb 19, 2022, 12:48 PM

Feb 2022

Hyperbole exists for us too (the right calling the left communists and the left calling the right nazis).

The thing is... in this part of the world (during WWII) it was literally true. The people who opposed Russian dominion had sided with the nazis at one point... and those who aligned with the Russians were literally communists.

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Ukraine's President and Prime Minister are Jewish. Russia claim they're neo-Nazis is a lie [View all] LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2022 OP

Intentional ignorance is bliss for some JohnSJ Feb 2022 #1

This is common rhetoric in that part of the world. FBaggins Feb 2022 #2

Not everyone sided with Nazis or Communists Wicked Blue Feb 2022 #3

Just about everybody knows that tRump and Russia lie about everything, so if they try to present SWBTATTReg Feb 2022 #4

If Russia is "worried" about anti-Semitism, it is BULLSHIT. Behind the Aegis Feb 2022 #5

Multi-ethnic democratic solidarity is pretty unique and awesome, correct. LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2022 #6