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> Why the US, who lied about nonexistent WMDs to murder 1 million Iraqis for profit is not 'monstrous' and Soviet Union, who (...)

You need to be extremely disingenuous to choose to describe the Soviet Union as a job provider with a social security program.

> Soviet Union, who provided guaranteed jobs, guaranteed housing, guaranteed education, guaranteed higher education, guaranteed healthcare, paid vacations, paid maternity leave, reasonable work hours, reasonable retirement age, free hobby and social clubs, is 'monstrous'.

I actually met a few Lithuanian tourists this summer (I live in Lyon, France). They were quite young (20-ish), but their parents still remember the Soviet Union, and were literally traumatized by it. Stories of Siberian gulags with corpses hanging from trees, people disappearing from one day to the next...

From what I can tell, the Soviet Union was a much worse place to be than the US.

> And lo and behold - the ONLY country on the planet that kills its citizens when they cant pay for healthcare is the US,

what are you talking about? I've never heard of the US government killing people who can't pay for healthcare. Did you mean people dying because they can't afford healthcare? Because that's pretty much par for the course everywhere except post WW2 welfare states, AFAIK.

If you want to believe you'll find a reason, no matter what history says.

holodomor was an intentionally manufactured to try to genocide political opponents. Something the “commies” are fond of more than most but they get a pass from enthusiasts like you. Gross.

https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/MURDER.HTM

Was it? Was it because it was intentionally 'manufactured' to genocide 'political opponents' that the Soviet state ordered food rationing EVERYWHERE else in order to be able to help Ukraine. So much that the people in Leningrad and Moscow ate less than people in Ukraine during the period? Which we know beyond any doubt because the records of who was given how many grams of what type of food during the rationing is still in the records.

Holodomor became a thing when the 1930s Rupert Murdoch started doing propaganda on behalf of Nazi Germany after signing a deal (for $500,000 dollars). Back then propaganda was not a dirty word, and it was business.

> Holodomor became a thing when the 1930s Rupert Murdoch started doing propaganda on behalf of Nazi Germany after signing a deal (for $500,000 dollars). Back then propaganda was not a dirty word, and it was business.

If you're speaking of Keith Rupert Murdoch the man who was born in 1931 and owns News Corp, I ask how does a person who's not even in their teens start doing propaganda on behalf of Nazi Germany?.

"1930s Rupert Murdoch". Hearst.

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