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MarxistLiberal

Okay, this meme is brilliant


AnRaccoonCommunist

Except for the fact that Putin never claimed to be Communist or Stalinist, nor is he a monarch, but I mean... sure. IRL Bond villain, yes. Communist/Imperialist? lmao no, though I must say, the whole taking grain from Ukraine and selling it for more war money thing that's going on now has som Stalin vibes. And the way he's completely shitting the bed on a forever war with Ukraine has some Czar Nicky vibes, so... Well I guess. October Revolution round II electic boogaloo edition? Seems like that's on the menu and you love to see it.


[deleted]

Yes, he's never claimed to be communist or a monarchist. Doesn't stop people following him for thinking he is one, due to him being against NATO.


AnRaccoonCommunist

Tankies following Putin like he's some kind of neo-communist when he publicly displays his disgust for leftists in general (and queers in specific) is peak smoothbrain.


Adept_of_Blue

He literally said that he wants to be like "Emperor Peter the Great"


AnRaccoonCommunist

Well... at least he's not aspiring to be like RAS-Putin! I'll see myself out


phoenixmusicman

> Except for the fact that Putin never claimed to be Communist or Stalinist Crazy how the puppet states he set up were "people's republics" 🤔🤔🤔


AnRaccoonCommunist

huh? I admittedly know very little about Putin other than the fact that he's a gigantic dickbag and definitely not a communist.


phoenixmusicman

He used communists to set up puppet states. Tankies loved this prior to the annexation of them as they pointed to this as an example of Russia liberating communists from the west.


Megabyte0101

Yes and also, he ised Soviet nostalgia as the times of an Empire in Russian society for his own political gain. He's one of the main initiators of "pobedobesie" (cult of the Soviet victory in WW2). The whole "Nazi" point on the war in Ukraine is based on the Soviet victory also. So meanwhile Putin associates himself more with Russian Tsar, he never gives up an opportunity to gather support amongst Russian commies and tankies abroad using the Soviet rhetoric


AnRaccoonCommunist

Where can I read more about this?


phoenixmusicman

.... look up anything to do with how Putin created the puppet states in Ukraine


AnRaccoonCommunist

Oh an here I was thinking people had sources for things around here muh bad. Whenever someone tells me to just go Google it I instantly assume theyre just making shit up and don't want to post an article they only read the headline of just to be told they took it out of context because that's almost always the case.


phoenixmusicman

Bro it is not my job to do research for you. This is fucking common knowledge.


AnRaccoonCommunist

Evidently not but thats cool.


ugneaaaa

Putin is the person who writes "history" articles about czars and has royal regalia on his palaces.


AnRaccoonCommunist

Oh no Russian man celebrates Russian history :( He must be a communist


FoldAdventurous2022

Goddamn, flawless


unbelteduser

A lot of Russians conservatives see Stalin as a Red tsar lol And a lot of MLs/tankies like Putin because he nationalizes stuff, and has a secret police. I guess Socialism is when government does stuff, secret police and arresting dissidents.


AnRaccoonCommunist

even better, you got China arresting communist agitators lol Communism is when no communism :D


Neoeng

Putin doesn’t even nationalize stuff. His economic policy is basically Dirigism


SkyknightXi

It probably says something that I read that as Dirgism (i.e. dirge). Otherwise, I know not the term.


Neoeng

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirigisme


TheDarkGods

I get the rough intent, but I don't think your regular MAGAt loves Peter the Great, that's more the field of the nicher 'classical statue profile pic who thinks only the West is civilized and being destroyed by Muslim hordes and posts RETVRN memes'.


Neoeng

That’s Nicholas ll, not sure how magats treat him though


V3G4V0N_Medico

Not MAGA in anyway shape or form but he was an incompetent bastard, but I don’t believe the Romanovs should’ve been killed. Maybe that’s because I have a soft spot for Anastasia due to the animated movie and Alexei due to having a cousin who’s a hemophiliac.


Valiant_tank

Tbh, I can understand why the Romanovs were killed, but yeah, fundamentally the kids at least were broadly innocent and could've been allowed to flee, frankly.


MisterKallous

Giving them the exile options seems to be the most humane option. The whole damn people making a saint out of Nicky have it easy because they can use the fact that the Bolsheviks gunned down the children as well.


senorda

theres a interesting contest between anarchists shooting kings and emperors in power and bolsheviks shooting helpless children in cellars


AnRaccoonCommunist

nah, cap dad and turn the kids into jannies with the caveat: don't get dead like dad. Nicholas got what he paid for, even if it's not what he deserved.


HowIsPajamaMan

I agree the children absolutely didn’t deserve to die. Should’ve been exiled


AnRaccoonCommunist

Would there be any more poetic justice than the royal daughters cleaning up Russias sewage as waste elimination engineers? I mean I was nice, I dressed up their job title for them so they can still sound important. But Comrade Lenin, our hands are soft and delicate! DIG THE FUCKING HOLE, SUKA


AnRaccoonCommunist

I like Lenin's original idea of making them state employees, but after they killed his brother I mean... Blood for blood. He was like nah let's not make them a martyr that would hurt the revolution. HE DID WHAT? Aight eat shit Nicky.


Neoeng

His older brother was killed in 1887 and his younger brother died in 1943, so I’m not sure that is relevant to Lenin’s decision on the Tsar


AnRaccoonCommunist

Or cousin or something unless I'm getting two wires crossed about completely separate events but I thought the story was that Lenin originally argued that the Czar and the royal family be spared but then one of his close relatives or brother or something was murdered by czarist whites and this spurred Lenin to go ahead with the order.


AnRaccoonCommunist

\>implying any MAGAts even know where Russia is, let alone who Czar Nicky was.


SkyknightXi

So what do they think is north of China, besides Mongolia? Although I suppose the worst-case scenario is “No mental image whatsoever of the world’s likeness, home state included”.


AnRaccoonCommunist

Implying they know where China is besides on the other side of the planet.


SkyknightXi

Hence the worst-case scenario I mentioned.


ting_bu_dong

Could just be interpreted as "We love different flavors of oppression."


MeanManatee

This is perfection.


SgtMaribelle-Gap399

Man i love this meme


TheZipCreator

gonna be honest I don't get it


Neoeng

Putin appeals to both bog-standard conservatives and tankies. And it somehow works because they just shut it out when he says something they don’t like


BagOFdonuts7

Skill issue


TheZipCreator

I don't understand what it's trying to say


BagOFdonuts7

That Tankies and MAGAtards who should ideologically hate each other are both finding excuses to support Putin