• Deceptichum@quokk.auOP
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    23 hours ago

    Like we’ve been over, a democratic student led revolt from the USSR does not make them Nazis. But glad to see you’re not entirely terrible to go so far as to support antisemitism.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      22 hours ago

      I linked a book from a historian that referenced “tankie” sources like The New York Times proving that this “democratic, student-led revolt” let Nazi collaborators imprisoned during and after World War II out of jail. The most I can concede is that some of the elements of the counter-revolt were led by liberal students seeking the return of capitalism, but the overall counterrevolt was largely steered by Hungarian nationalists, who were documented as freeing Nazi collaborators and lynching Jewish people and communists. This is why the Red Army was sent in.

      The 1956 counter-revolt was not unified, rarely are any counter-revolutions unified. What happens is the most millitant, most reactionary elements get aid from western sources like MI6, and in this case this also cascaded into freeing Nazi collaborators from prison. Hungary was already democratic, the “democracy” they were championing was the same Trump supporters were championing on January 6, what they really meant is that they wanted to be in power and were upset to not be.

      I have never been antisemitic, and I do my best to separate anti-Zionism from antisemitic infiltrators and wreckers.