i am just gonna say it. when i see y'all romanticise communism, especially on TikTok, it terrifies and disgusts me.
communism is not "comrade" jokes.
it's a regime that labeled people "enemies of the state" because they had two cows and were not prepared to give them up, because they spoke Ukrainian, because they criticized the regime or its policies, because they were not willing to die, giving up the last food they had.
this regime murdered a whole generation of poets, artists, civic activists for daring to express their opinions.
it murdered people it claimed to serve because of made up economy plans. estimates vary, but a minimum 3.9 million people starved, because there was a set amount of grain they had to give up, no matter what.
https://holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/the-history-of-the-holodomor/
read up on holodomor, law of three spikelets, executed renaissance, the great terror, the soviet dissident movement and STOP.