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Uh, a lot of what’s missing is “because grandpa was a despised minority like Jews or rroma” or “because grandpa spoke out against the regime” or “because grandpa was an artist or intellectual and therefore a threat to those in power”. Yeah, sometimes grandpa was a rich capitalist, but let’s get real: most of the wealthy capitalists had enough money to get out of dodge. They lived. The ones who stayed and died were too poor to run.

“yOuR gRanDpA pRoBaBlY oWnEd a cAsTlE“

Yeah, first of all there is one castle in my country which has been public property since forever, and second of all, “rich bourgeouis and therefore an enemy of the people to have his property taken at gunpoint and be sentenced in absentia to a mass grave or death camp” was a title awarded to anyone who had a small shop or a cow, i. e. what you pampered pumpkin spice latte asses call “owning the means of production”.

The Khmer Rogue butchered a quarter of the population of Cambodia, but I guess 25% of Cambodia was just rich landowners, right?

Hey, if you can afford glasses, you can afford land.

My great-grandpa was almost killed for the grand crime of owning a couple hectares of farm land he was working with his family. The only reason he survived? He was working in the forge when the commie scum came to put a bullet in his head and was dirty. They laughed that he can’t be a land owner and walked away.

As a “funny” historical side note: the reason, why the Polish writer Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1919-2000), a Jew btw., was sentenced to five years of gulag after being arrested by the NKVD, was because the prosecutor accused him of being a relative of Hermann Göring, the Field Marshal of the German Air Force.

Because you know, “Herling” sounds kinda like “Göring”, so it’s logical, that a Polish Jew must be a relative of one of the most important people in the Third Reich, right? 

And that ladies and gentlemen is the level of quality justice, that you can expect from any Communist court.

Aren’t these dumbasses against the death penalty? How can you not want to kill someone that’s raped and murdered people, but you’re fine with the government killing anyone that’s rich, or well-off, or comfortably middle-class?

Because their idea of justice isn’t based on what you’ve done, but who you are. A “bourgeois” state killing people is bad not because killing is bad, but because it is a “bourgeois” state doing the killing.

“my grampa/great-uncle was killed by the communists” lol he was a rich capitalist then?

no, he was a penniless student in Kiev that died first during the Holomodor because he couldn’t afford food.

no, he was a beggar in Berlin that took a bullet for staying too close from the Berlin Wall.

no, he was just the cousin of a guy who had managed to go through the border and they wanted to get informations and make an example.

no, he was a shop employee in Moscow who ran out of paper during an order and took a piece of newspaper to write the rest, but wrote “two boxes of soap” in a picture of Staline and was sentenced to death for blasphemy.

no, he was actually one of their own soldiers but he refused to kill a farmer just because the guy didn’t want to forfeit his only cow to the kolkhoze.

no, he was a former prisonner of war who came back home to Cracow to discover his family had been murdered, and he was arrested the next day because he shouldn’t have trespassed in his own house that was now property of the government.

no, his name just sounded german.

no, he was christian.

no, he was jewish.

no, he was roma.

no, he existed.

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