On: Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda...

[d0mine]

How is it terrible compared to other similar in scale countries?

[swebs → d0mine]

The Soviet regime was so terrible that they had to build a wall to keep people in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall

[PeterisP → d0mine]

The other similar in scale countries have performed much less atrocities against their own population.

China has a bit larger total numbers, but they're not similar in scale.

[PhasmaFelis → d0mine]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

[d0mine → PhasmaFelis]

I don't get the logic: if you do it, you are a terrible person. If we do it, we are fighting for freedom or some such.

If you use the term "whataboutism", you are either ignorant or a shill.

[PeterisP → d0mine]

If we disregard the geopolitics and foreign interventions, cold war UK, France or USA was a decent regime to its own people.

If we disregard the geopolitics and foreign interventions, cold war USSR was a horrible regime against its own people.

There are all kinds of horrible things done by those regimes to their own people as well, but they aren't comparable in scale.

[PhasmaFelis → d0mine]

It's terrible no matter who does it. You tried to claim that it was less terrible for the USSR to do it, because other countries did it too.

[d0mine → PhasmaFelis]

Worse than no justice is only selective justice: one set of rules for us vs. another set of rules for them

[PhasmaFelis → d0mine]

True, but no justice is still pretty bad, and you're advocating for it vigorously.

[partiallypro → d0mine]

Maybe the fact that it murdered more people than Hitler's Reich?

[darkhorn → d0mine]

In Bulgaria out of 8 million peple between 100000 and 300000 people were killed during the communist regime.