EDIT due to the recent feedback of @AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml

There are three important context that needs to be understood here:

  1. There is currently an antifascist war going on Ukraine.

  2. Both groups in the picture are fighting this war provoked by NATO.

  3. The saying “History doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes” means that events may not occur again in exactly the same way but there often are enough similarities to make it seem like a spot of deja vu. The similarity here is with the Second world war which in Russia is called the Great Patriotic War.

If you all need more information regarding any of these, please refer to AnarchoBolshevik sub c/capitalismInDecay or this sub.

This post is to remind everyone that the Russian SMO and the Ukraine war are antifascist.

    • rainpizza@lemmygrad.mlOP
      6·
      28 days ago

      Huh? But I am not. The point of the post is not to equate both but to show that we are seeing another anti fascist war like the one in the past.

      Is the quote “History doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes” means equating both groups to you? If so, then this is might be cultural thing in your country because the saying has a different meaning to me 🤔

      • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        14·
        28 days ago

        All that you did was post an image of two decontextualized photographs—one of undefined soldiers holding up a communist flag, and a similar one of undefined soldiers holding up a neofascist flag—and vaguely captioned them with ‘History doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes’.

        What will other people think?

        • rainpizza@lemmygrad.mlOP
          51·
          28 days ago

          Well, I thought the context was pretty clear if I added this post with the quote in c/deathToNato which is the sub that works for posting news about NATO’s wars. 🫠

          TIL, I gotta make it more explicit next time with a definition of the quote to avoid any misunderstandings.

          • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            12·
            28 days ago

            I gotta make it more explicit next time with a definition of the quote to avoid any misunderstandings.

            That’s not what I fucking said. Your image is a photograph of soldiers holding up a communist flag. The photograph below is a similar one of soldiers holding up a neofascist flag. What will people think?

            • rainpizza@lemmygrad.mlOP
              6·
              28 days ago

              What will people think?

              If people understood the quote and see that picture, I thought people will see a repeat of history and then they will think that this is happening right now at this instant which is the point of the post. This will help plenty of people clear confusions with the NATO provoked war in Ukraine. That’s it and there is NO need to get angry about this, Anarcho-Bolshevik.

              Also, I am not downvoting you.

                • rainpizza@lemmygrad.mlOP
                  9·
                  28 days ago

                  Have you seriously never before seen lazy comparisons like that?

                  In reddit, yes but here is not very common. In great part, it is thanks to mods like you and the admins that do a great work at education. You also go beyond in the education by keeping the sub c/capitalismInDecay updated.

                  You didn’t explain anything in your opening post.

                  Well, I thought that the quote will be enough to contextualize both pictures but now I stand corrected. Thanks.

                  I just left a group because two people in it called me stupid and accused me of insulting their tradition, and now I’m trying to reason with you telling you that your vague, cryptic bullshit thread doesn’t do anything but make you look boneheaded, and you keep missing the obvious. I would just delete your shitty thread if I didn’t think that somebody else would restore it. Fuck this shit.

                  I am sorry, Anarcho-Bolchevik.

                  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
                    6·
                    27 days ago

                    In great part, it is thanks to mods like you and the admins that do a great work at education.

                    After the way that I snapped at you and called you names, I think that the most responsible thing for me to do is resign as moderator of this subcommunity, at least for the time being. I really regret the way that I mistreated and upset you, so I want to apologize in public for that, and I wish that I could do something better than erase a couple of my lousy comments and give up my local moderation privileges.

                • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
                  8·
                  28 days ago

                  Honestly that’s not at all how i interpreted this post. I thought that OP’s intended message was pretty clear. However i will admit that you may be right about how some “normies” would interpret this image without any additional context…maybe something like: “80 years later and the Hammer and Sickle is still fighting against the Swastika” should be added.

                  So yes you’re right to point out that perhaps this needed a sentence or two of clarification. I’m sorry that you have had such negative experiences recently, you don’t deserve that, but that doesn’t have anything to do with this post. I feel you are being needlessly hostile toward the OP here who obviously meant well. Maybe offer polite constructive criticism next time?

                  • Maeve@lemmygrad.ml
                    6·
                    28 days ago

                    I didn’t think so either; but I may have, in my earliest days, here. Plus the Nazi instance in constant denial and derision of things they don’t neither understand, nor seek to understand. And if I’m being honest, I was like that too, once in the not very distant past.

                    But yes, the post did come across in an unnecessarily hostile manner. I have a deep admiration for all of the regular, in-depth posters here, and am indebted to and extremely grateful for posts that trigger weeks and months of contemplation, as well as boundless patience in helping me understand things my aging and under-educated mind has difficulty grasping. This thread hurts my heart, because it’s like watching a blowup in a close-knit family that we of our own volition chose to be, rather than were forced into by blood and soil.