real

jesus christ i hate landlords, sending so much love to you comrade

Im sad, can’t play games with my person tonight

gotta study gotta get going

things are hard

sorry, then i misread

literally no, sorry

yeah and the USSR was an actual entity not just the symbol of the working class, since it wasn’t just a workers movement. People forget how the bolsheviks lead the way in worker-peasant unity for the building of a socialist state, and that is why they had the hammer and sickle.

also if you’re going to complain, the hammer and sickle only are on one side of the USSR flag. The other is plain red

i dont think that was the actual flag, just a recreation, as that specific coat of arms was under the stalin administration. And this flag came into use for only the first four months of the union’s existence before being replaced by the hammer and sickle we know and love. So technically this would be the first actual flag of the USSR.

the 1923-24 version

before the 1925 adoption of the stalin version

I dont know why you feel an absurd attachment to just a few of the ‘top’ bolsheviks. Trotsky for one was just a menshevik so no one should care. the buhkarin clique was NEP nonsense that would have gotten the soviet union killed if their plan had been implemented. The trotsky clique was indeed planning a coup and the evidence points to using outside help from the west and japan to do so in exchange for some territorial concessions. Trotsky also had connections to the military and associates that were planning an overthrow in conjunction with the buhkarin clique. Zinoviev was an opportunist who sided with the reactionaries in kronstadt and other reactionary groups just to gain power. People who give a shit about zinoviev in the year of our lord 2024 are just reactionaries or left coms who make their whole ideology worrying about and being irrelevant things. As well as nerds who goon about the ‘lenin testament’ which is an unverified and highly dubious source.

All of the bolshevik cliques were going to murder each other, no matter who won. This is the inevitable result of Lenin’s revolutionary coalition falling apart after he died. The anti stalinists killed people like Kirov, an excellent organizer, just because he was stalin’s friend. Stalin was too nice, and should have given similar punishments out, but alas actually followed democratic centralism and the laws of the soviet union. the leadership of the soviet union was never going to be just the same 40 dudes anyway, have you gentlemen ever seen a revolution?

second ones deserved it lmao

damn even kruschev didn’t purge him lol

true

no

Russia will forever suffer for not being socialist until it makes the sane decision to return to the most superior form of civilization they tried to kill 30 years prior

need my stalin

based and true

the sickle just looks nicer, and my brain is happy seeing how nicely it fits with the hammer

didn’t stalin eventually purge lysenko

the swooped sickle was just similar to the symbols of communism from the 20s and earlier. everyone had a similar symbol.

this is democracy manifest

Especially since such critiques can be similarly leveled at many aspects of leftism. Every socialist movement has their reactionaries that twist the purpose into something that suits the needs of reaction. For example: ‘White Leftism’ cannot truly represent leftism, and representing leftism as ‘white leftism’ to hate on leftism is just an incorrect way of going about it, and ignores the largest contribution to leftism is the Global South.

They’re giving ground to reactionaries due to their own reactionary sentiment, because they’d rather be comfortable than challenge their beliefs.

Thats my personal take at least