This is a bs meme but it is funny

Again, serfdom in Russian was contemporary with Victorian England.

@Nemets without Léopold, for sure. I’m not sure about the actual Belgian government of the area.

Remember that the Congo Free State wasn’t properly Belgian- it was held as the private property of the king- who was rightly forced to abdicate for his appalling governance of the territory.

@ophiuchus Not to argue of course my man, but in every other point in history when we have fought against tyrannical monarchies, it didn't turn into Communism, but a better form of Monarchies, or republicanism, imo

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN hard to argue serfdom was worse then corporate bugmanism

Highly subjective.

They're both pretty bad though...

@The Eternal Anglo No, you’re right. But this situation was different. The same social system from the Middle Ages in Western Europe was still in place almost 100 years after the French Revolution. It wasn’t going to go gently. There was no gradual easing.

The meme was just in my folder and relevant to the topic

From talking to my family in Poland, usually the take I get is that communism wasn't ideal, but there were good and bad parts. The only people really who do the whole "OMG Zimbabwe tier breadlines" routine are immigrants who exaggerate for sympathy.

My advice is take everything immigrants say with a bit skepticism

>Zimbabwe breadlines

Have to have bread to have breadlines

damnit he stole the joke

lol ya I was thinking that too

What is Zimbabwe? I have never heard of that country

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN I’m gonna start an Amish lifestyle resort. You can get the serf experience without the serf commitment. You in?

@ophiuchus hmm, that's certainly true my dude

@Evan I've farmed before. A/C in the southern summer is the only tech I'd kvetch about missing. What sort of latitude?

Oh I wouldn’t actually know how to farm. But I can sort of see that working.

@Evan Deracinated whites are always in search of "authenticity"

It’s just as bourgeoise as hiding your wealth

You could make it profitable

Exactly always looking for authenticity

Maybe I’ll put a few taco stands out of business.

Here's how I know the starvation thing is largely bullshit: Have you ever seen immigrants who from places like Somalia? They usually look pretty bad healthwise, unless they were upper class back in their home country. My family were peasants in Poland. If the narrative is true, they should have been starving in breadlines for 8 hours a day, which would have caused stunted growth and all kinds of health problems. Yet, none of them have this. They all look fine. So, ya, communism was bad, but it wasn't Somalia tier like some people on the right make it sound like.

I think a lot of “x ethnic group looks weird” is kind of eyeroll, but seriously. Somalis (Somali men more-so) look ill

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Didn’t they just starv certain parts of the country?

no lol

I’m not against leaning left either

But they would take grain from the farmers and give it to say the urban population

If you're talking about the Holodomor, the reason is affected primary Ukraine is because that's where the grain happened to be produced. There's literally zero evidence that it was a genocide.

Kingdom of that $$wagg purple mountain Kush

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noice.

Also, a large part of the Holodomor was that the Kulaks were retards who decided to burn their own grain out of spite

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Are we taking about the Rohingya

@Jacob I’ll look into from that perspective.

@VinceChaos Link evidence that Ukrainians were intentionally targeted